CBT for Anxiety FAQs

This is a on-demand online training you can begin anytime and complete at your own pace. The course includes 12 hours of on-demand video lessons, therapy demonstrations, and case examples that show CBT for anxiety in action. You’ll also receive downloadable tools and resources you can use immediately in your sessions.

With 12 months of access, you can pause, resume, and revisit lessons whenever it suits your schedule, making it easy to balance learning with a busy clinical workload.

You’ll learn how to use CBT to target the processes that keep anxiety going, including avoidance, safety behaviours, and catastrophic thinking. The course shows you how to:

• Structure effective CBT sessions for anxiety

• Apply graded exposure, cognitive restructuring, and behavioural experiments

• Help clients face feared situations with confidence

• Explain anxiety symptoms in ways that strengthen engagement in treatment

• Build targeted treatment plans that reduce avoidance and support lasting progress

12 CE/CME credits are available for CBT for Anxiety. View the Learner Notification to see the boards and jurisdictions, learning objectives and speaker disclosures. 

A certificate of completion will also be awarded. 

If you need to pay the admin fee for CE/CME credits, click here.

No - you can take this course on its own. However, if you’re newer to CBT, starting with Foundational CBT will give you a strong base in formulation, cognitive restructuring, and behavioural techniques before applying these skills to anxiety-focused work.

This course helps you see anxiety through the CBT lens, as something that can be understood, explained, and effectively treated. You will learn how anxiety develops, what keeps it going, and how to interrupt the cycle through evidence-based interventions.

The training brings together the science of how anxiety works in the brain, how safety behaviours and avoidance maintain it, and how exposure and cognitive techniques help clients relearn safety and confidence.

You will finish with a clear framework for treatment and greater confidence guiding clients toward meaningful, lasting change.

Absolutely. Anxiety runs through almost every kind of presentation we see in practice. It often shows up first and can set the stage for other difficulties such as depression, trauma, or substance use. When anxiety drives avoidance and life becomes smaller, mood and functioning often follow.

This course helps you recognise how anxiety operates across disorders and how to address it with a CBT framework that adapts to the realities of complex, comorbid cases. Treating anxiety early and effectively often improves other symptoms too, making this training relevant no matter who you work with.

Yes. The course explores Social Anxiety, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, and Specific Phobias in depth. You’ll learn about the neuropsychology of anxiety, how to understand and explain the anxiety cycle, and how to assess, diagnose, and formulate cases effectively.

Each module then guides you through practical CBT strategies and interventions tailored to the key maintaining factors of each disorder.