Compassion Focused Therapy offers gentle yet powerful strategies to deepen therapeutic relationships and enhance cognitive, behavioral and emotion approaches. Learn how to easily weave CFT interventions into your CBT practice to create a more rewarding experience for both you and your clients.

Compassion Focused CBT

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Compassion Focused Therapy offers gentle yet powerful strategies to deepen your therapeutic relationships and enhance cognitive, behavioral and emotional interventions. In this experiential online course led by two of the world’s leading CFT experts – founder Paul Gilbert and innovator Dennis Tirch – you’ll learn how to easily blend this warm and empowering approach into your existing CBT practice to create a richer therapeutic experience for both you and your clients.Your learning journey begins with an introduction to the evolutionary science model that underpins Compassion Focused Therapy and the links between compassion and attachment theory. Along the way, you’ll discover how to use compassion focused strategies to help your clients overcome a range of difficult issues including chronic shame, self-criticism, anxiety and complex PTSD. By learning about compassion focused imagery, thought records, exposure, mind training, chairwork, mindfulness, breathing exercises and more, you’ll discover new ways to not only take care of your clients, but also yourself. Gain exclusive access to beautiful video lessons, insightful therapy demonstrations and practical learning materials that will deepen your ability to cultivate compassion, wisdom and courage in this transformative course.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Start your best practice CBT training journey. Learn “why we are the way we are” from a CBT perspective. Explore how we become stuck and why we suffer. Discover how to effectively apply traditional CBT strategies and modern third wave interventions in a caring way with your clients.

Foundational CBT

Learn the fundamentals of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in this deeply absorbing and thoroughly enjoyable six-week online course.

For Mental Health Professionals, Health Practitioners and Coaches 

Learn how to effectively treat depression using best practice CBT strategies with your clients. Gain a deep understanding of how and why depression presents and discover how to compassionately apply traditional and ‘third wave’ interventions to help clients overcome this debilitating condition.

CBT for Depression

Learn best practice CBT to help your clients overcome depression.

Guided by world leading experts, learn how to treat a variety of anxiety disorders using best practice CBT strategies and interventions. Find out how to adapt your practice to compassionately treat Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Social Anxiety, Agoraphobia and other phobias.

CBT for Anxiety Disorders

Learn how to effectively treat Anxiety Disorders with world leading trainers, skilled clinicians and a range of contributing CBT experts in this immersive and deeply rewarding 6-week online course.

Learn how to help clients exposed to traumatic experiences and PTSD with growing confidence. This highly practical course shows you how to use a cognitive and/or behavioral approach to compassionately move clients from being stuck in distress to healthy functioning.

CBT for Trauma

Gain a deep understanding of Non-Suicidal Self-injury and explore its relationship with emotion, contagion, disassociation and suicide. Acquire valuable skills in how to apply best practice CBT strategies and learn how to sensitively.

CBT for Self-injury

The Unified Protocol shows you how to treat clients who present simultaneously with anxiety, depression and other issues. Help clients learn new ways to respond to uncomfortable emotions and reduce symptoms with an easy-to-use eight step CBT approach.

Compassion Focused CBT

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