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Learn CBT step by step with clear, practical training you can apply right away. This foundational course builds your confidence and clinical skill - so you can deliver structured, evidence-based therapy with clarity and care, while integrating third-wave strategies like mindfulness and emotion regulation.

Foundational CBT

Gain confidence in CBT with step-by-step training grounded in real-world practice in this online course.

For Mental Health & Health Professionals, Coaches 

Learn evidence-based CBT for trauma and PTSD from leading trauma experts. This course helps you integrate cognitive and exposure-based strategies into a flexible, compassionate approach - so you can meet clients where they are and support meaningful recovery, even in the face of dissociation, flashbacks, or overwhelming distress.

CBT for Trauma

Learn evidence-based CBT for trauma and PTSD from world-leading trauma experts in this online course.

Guided by world-leading experts in anxiety treatment, learn how to treat anxiety disorders with evidence-based CBT. Go beyond general skills and target the specific patterns that maintain anxiety- like avoidance, worry, and safety behaviours - so you can help clients build confidence and move forward with real progress.

CBT for Anxiety Disorders

Treat anxiety with confidence using research-backed CBT strategies that work in this online course.

Build practical skills and clinical confidence in evidence-based CBT for depression. This course goes beyond general training to give you specialized tools to break through hopelessness, low motivation, and stuck patterns - helping clients re-engage with life and move toward lasting, meaningful change.

CBT for Depression

Learn how to treat depression with confidence in this practical, skills-based CBT online training.

For Mental Health & Health Professionals, Coaches

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Help patients move toward better health - learn directly from the co-founder of Motivational Interviewing (MI). Join Stephen Rollnick and a team of expert practitioners to build practical MI skills you can use in everyday consultations. Learn how to guide behavior change, strengthen engagement, and improve outcomes - even in time-pressured clinical settings.

Motivational Interviewing in Health Care

Help patients move toward better health, one conversation at a time, in this online course with the co-founder of MI, Stephen Rollnick.

Support real change in addiction - learn directly from the co-founder of Motivational Interviewing (MI). Join William Miller and Theresa Moyers to build the skills and confidence to work with substance use. Learn how to engage clients, navigate ambivalence, and strengthen motivation for recovery.

Motivational Interviewing for Addiction

Support meaningful change in addiction - learn directly from the co-founder of Motivational Interviewing in this online course.

Learn to guide conversations that inspire change - directly from the founders of Motivational Interviewing (MI). This course gives you practical, skills-based training in MI with William Miller, Stephen Rollnick, and Theresa Moyers. Build strong engagement, respond effectively to ambivalence, and help clients uncover their own motivation for change.

6 weeks | 10 hours in total (12 Months Access)

Motivational Interviewing - Foundational

Learn how to guide conversations that inspire change in this online course, with guidance from with the developers of MI in an exclusive forum.

Motivational Interviewing

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Join Sue Johnson and select EFT trainers to learn the foundations of EFT and how to integrate Attachment science into your clinical practice sessions for individuals, couples, and families.

EFT: Attachment Science in Practice

Learn how to treat trauma and attachment injuries led by renowned EFT trainer Leanne Campbell. This compelling, practical course, featuring EFIT content from Sue Johnson, will help you support clients in healing from trauma and attachment wounds with compassion and skill.

EFT for Trauma and Attachment Injuries

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Emotionally Focused Therapy

This action packed and interactive six-week course takes you step by step through the ACT model. You’ll learn core skills and interventions that are immediately applicable to both yourself and your work with clients.

ACT for Beginners

Join Dr Russ Harris in this absorbing six-week course, and learn how to help your clients reduce suffering and build meaningful lives with Acceptance & Commitment Therapy.

For Mental Health Professionals, Health Professionals & Coaches

This six-week specialty course specifically focuses on adapting core ACT processes to help adolescents stop struggling and start thriving.

ACT for Adolescents

This six-week course, with support from Dr. Russ Harris in a dedicated forum, focuses on adapting core ACT processes to help adolescents stop struggling and start thriving.

For Mental Health Professionals, Health Professionals

An in-depth, integrated approach. This intensely practical course has a strong emphasis on skills-development. Help your clients rapidly progress to post-traumatic growth

Trauma-Focused ACT

Somatic-focused, exposure-based, and incredibly practical course, with guidance from Dr Russ Harris in a dedicated forum.

This six-week course specifically trains you in the most essential interventions for the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders.

ACT for Depression and Anxiety Disorders

This powerful, practical, and simple-to-apply course, with support from Dr. Russ Harris in a dedicated forum, covers all aspects of depression and anxiety disorders, including suicidality.

For Mental Health Professionals, Health Professionals 

This training is based on FACT: Focused Acceptance &amp; Commitment Therapy. You’ll learn how to do ACT in 1 to 6 sessions of 15 to 30 minutes in duration. Ideal for practitioners in time-limited settings, including primary care, EAPs, and crisis intervention.

ACT as a Brief Intervention

Learn how to do ACT effectively in short sessions using FACT: Focused Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, in this online course with support from Dr. Russ Harris in a dedicated forum.

This short but practical course shows you how to apply ACT to all aspects of grief and loss - including complicated grief. It covers every element of grieving and mourning, from creating grief rituals to practicing forgiveness.

ACT for Grief and Loss

This four-week practical course shows you how to apply ACT to all aspects of grief and loss. Learn with guidance from Dr. Russ Harris in a dedicated forum.

This six-week practical course takes you step-by-step through the effective treatment of unhelpful perfectionism and unhealthy people-pleasing (“fawning”), using ACT in combination with other essential skills, such as assertiveness and setting boundaries.

ACT for Perfectionism and People Pleasing

This six-week practical course takes you step-by-step through the effective treatment of unhelpful perfectionism and unhealthy people-pleasing, and includes guidance from Dr. Russ Harris in an exclusive forum. 

This four-week course covers practical tools, techniques, strategies and principles for working with every aspect of ADHD.

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This four-week online course with Dr. Russ Harris covers practical tools, techniques, strategies and principles for working with every aspect of ADHD.

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ACT for Autism: A Neuroaffirming Approach

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6 weeks | 12 hrs total (12 Months Access)

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A practical DBT training program for licensed clinicians joining an established DBT team

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Comprehensive Online Linehan DBT Training for Mental Health Teams and Systems

The DBT Intensive Plus program is designed for individual practitioners who are not yet part of a DBT Team.&nbsp;This program includes:&nbsp;<ul><li>12 months access to the DBT Foundational online course </li><li>18 hours of ongoing expert DBT consultation, tailored to your team's needs&nbsp;</li></ul>*Eligibility criteria applies

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Next-generation training for clinicians without a team 

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Comprehensive DBT Training for Mental Health Systems and Clinical Teams who work with Adolescents and Families

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3 hours | Self Directed (access for 3 months)

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6 weeks | 12 hrs total (12 months access)

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David Tolin explains how to modulate emotions through relaxation strategies.

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In this module, we're gonna talk about intervening for emotion. Now remember, you can intervene with emotion indirectly through cognition and behavior or you can intervene directly. And when we're intervening directly, there are two paths you can take. One is emotion modulation. In which you try to change the experienced emotion, the other is emotional acceptance where you teach the client how to tolerate the uncomfortable emotion and not compound it.

When we talk about modulating negative emotion, one way that we can do that is through progressive muscle relaxation. Now this is helpful, particularly for people that have arousal and tension. For example, your client with a lot of irritability or anger as part of their depressive syndrome. In the case of progressive muscle relaxation, the idea is that we go part by part through the body and teach the client first to tense up that muscle hold it and then relax it.

And in the process of relaxing the body, we find that the mind starts to relax as well. Remember that emotion is two things. It is physiology and it is a subjective feeling state. And those two things are very intimately intertwined. So as, for example, your level of physiological arousal goes up, So too does your level of agitation or irritability or anxiety. And conversely, as your level of physiological arousal comes down so too do your subjective feeling states of anxiety irritability tension and so on.

After the client has mastered the art of progressive muscle relaxation, You can start to use a passive muscle relaxation in which you don't necessarily have to tense the muscles of the body so much but rather the client can just start to say relax and work part by part in the body at just relaxing the muscle. And relaxing the muscle ends up relaxing the emotion and the thoughts as well. As part of the relaxation process, one thing that you can use is what's called guided imagery in which you encourage the client to imagine themselves in some sort of relaxing scenario. That helps deepen the sense of relaxation. Now, we're not doing this as a form of mental escape.

I'm not trying to get you to deny reality. I'm just trying to get you to figure out a way to calm yourself down in the moment so that you can gain better control over your emotional reactions.