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Item: Motivational Interviewing - Foundational | Online Course
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Author: Terri J Bushey

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

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.

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.

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.

Motivational Interviewing

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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.

ACT for ADHD

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

This six-week online course covers practical tools, techniques, strategies and principles for working with common clinical issues related to autism, utilizing ACT in a neuroaffirming format.

ACT for Autism: A Neuroaffirming Approach

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Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

Learn DBT skills directly from Marsha Linehan, the founder of DBT. This engaging course covers the core skills- Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Distress Tolerance, and Interpersonal Effectiveness - with practical tools, therapy demos, and guidance for everyday clinical practice.

DBT Skills

Learn DBT Skills from the founder of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, with guidance from DBT expert trainers in a dedicated learning forum.

Support teens and families with DBT skills - developed by Marsha Linehan, Alec Miller, and Jill Rathus. Learn practical strategies for delivering the five adolescent modules, including Walking the Middle Path for parent-teen conflict, with therapy demos and guidance for group, family, and individual sessions.

6 weeks | 12 hrs total (12 Months Access)

DBT Skills for Adolescents and Families

Learn How to Apply DBT Skills With Adolescents and Their Families - From the Treatment Developers

Anger and shame are two of the most difficult emotions clients bring to therapy. In this course, Annie McCall, a DBT trainer with over 25 years of experience, provides a clear framework for using DBT skills with these emotions. You’ll learn how to work with anger and shame to support regulation, healthier coping, and stronger connection.

Applied DBT Skills for Anger and Shame

Support clients with trauma-related problems using DBT skills. This course features expert instruction from Dr. Melanie Harned, a leading authority on DBT and trauma treatment, along with detailed roleplays and practical strategies to build emotional safety, improve regulation, and sustain progress across all phases of recovery.

Applied DBT Skills for Trauma

Learn how to help clients stabilize and recover after trauma with DBT Skills in this online course.

For Mental Health & Heath Professionals, Coaches

This training, led by DBT experts Alec Miller and Jill Rathus, focuses on the application of DBT skills in the treatment of mood disorders and anxiety.&nbsp; Learn practical strategies and powerful interventions through comprehensive client demonstrations, illustrating the transformative impact of DBT Skills on a broad spectrum of anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder symptoms.&nbsp;

Applied DBT Skills for Mood Disorders

Integrate the transformational impact of DBT skills into your treatment of anxiety, depression and bipolar disorders in this online course.

This highly practical course is designed to assist new clinicians learn &amp; apply the strategies of DBT, to seamlessly join an existing DBT Team. *Eligibility criteria appliesThis program includes:<ul><li>30 hours of on demand content broken into sections of approx 2.5 hours per week - 12 months access&nbsp;</li><li>Detailed therapy demonstrations which bring the DBT model therapy to life &amp; can be revisited at any time</li><li>Includes a resource library &amp; bonus “dig deeper” content in areas that interest you</li></ul>

DBT Foundational

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

Tailored to meet the unique needs of new and existing DBT Teams, your DBT Intensive program is focused on assisting your team to work effectively while applying DBT with patients.&nbsp;This program includes:&nbsp;<ul><li>12 months access to DBT Foundational online course</li><li>18 hours of ongoing expert DBT consultation, tailored to your team's needs</li></ul>*Eligibility criteria applies

DBT Intensive

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

DBT Intensive Plus

Next-generation training for clinicians without a team 

Led by DBT for Adolescent pioneers Alec Miller and Jill Rathus, this foundational training gives you practical, in-depth instruction in the comprehensive model for adolescents and families. Through engaging demonstrations across all six treatment modalities - individual therapy, family therapy, skills training, inter-session coaching, therapist consultation team, and parent sessions - you’ll see exactly how DBT comes to life in clinical practice.

DBT Foundational for Adolescents & Families

Transform adolescent care with DBT: An online training course for clinicians working in a DBT team

DBT Intensive for Adolescents and Families provides a complete implementation pathway for hospitals, community mental health services, residential programs, and youth treatment facilities seeking high-fidelity adolescent DBT delivery.&nbsp;This intensive for established clinical teams combines step-by-step foundational training with 12 months of expert consultation.

DBT Intensive for Adolescents & Families

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

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Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

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AMSR for Inpatient Settings

Learn how to confidently and competently assess and manage suicide risk in this engaging online course as a professional providing care in an inpatient setting.

Health & Behavioral Health Professionals & Inpatient Facilities Staff

Non-clinical staff working in inpatient care settings are taught to provide confident and empathetic care to patients at risk of suicide in this engaging on demand course.

AMSR for Direct Care Staff in Outpatient Settings

A short course for clinical staff to develop an understanding of assessment and management of suicide risk, and the delivery of effective suicide-specific interventions. 

3 hours | Self Directed (access for 3 months)

AMSR for Direct Care Staff in Inpatient Settings

An AMSR course for non-clinical staff who work as part of the care team with individuals at risk for suicide

AMSR

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Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk

Attachment injury leads to life long deep wounds, self-defeating behaviors and can cause problems in relationships. Learn how to bring down barriers to treatment and effect change through powerful interventions and emotionally healing experiences underpinned by the EMDR protocol.

6 weeks | 12 hrs total (12 months access)

EMDR for Attachment Injuries

Heal attachment wounds and support lasting change. Learn advanced EMDR strategies for developmental trauma in this online course with ongoing guidance from Debra Wesselman in a dedicated forum.

For EMDR Trained Therapists | Advanced Level

Through her boots-on-the-ground approach, Dr. Gilman, a former firefighter, demonstrates how the healing power of EMDR Therapy can enable First Responders to heal from the years of stress pile-up and build resilience over time. Learn how to implement EMDR Therapy to heal trauma and build resilience with this unique population.

EMDR for First Responders

Learn how to implement the healing power of EMDR Therapy to enable First Responders to heal from the years of stress pile-up and build resilience over time in this online course.

This fun and engaging course teaches important and developmentally appropriate skills for integrating the 8 phases of EMDR into child and adolescent therapy. Learn creative and compelling EMDR tools designed to support the unique needs and complex issues children, teens and their families face today.

EMDR for Kids and Teens

This fun and engaging online course teaches important and developmentally appropriate skills for integrating the 8 phases of EMDR into child and adolescent therapy.

Support clients through grief, mourning, and traumatic loss using EMDR. This advanced course features expert instruction from Dr. Roger Solomon, internationally recognized EMDR trainer and grief specialist, along with in-depth demonstrations and practical strategies for applying the 8 phases of EMDR to help clients process loss, resolve stuck points, and reconnect with life.

EMDR for Complicated Grief

Support clients through grief, mourning, and traumatic loss with this advanced, online EMDR training.

Join Deborah Korn and world-leading EMDR experts as they take you on an in-depth and compassionate journey into working with complex trauma, and its potential life long impact on human functioning&nbsp;and relationships. This course will teach you specific techniques and interventions that elegantly combine with the EMDR protocol to help your clients overcome issues and suffering.

6 weeks | 16 hours total (12 months access)

EMDR for Complex Trauma

Join Deborah Korn for this practical and compassionate training on working with complex trauma using the EMDR protocol, designed to help your clients heal from deep, long-standing wounds.

EMDR

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EMDR Institute

Learn to treat a range of emotional disorders with the Unified Protocol (UP), a transdiagnostic approach for addressing multiple conditions simultaneously. Discover the elegance and simplicity&nbsp;of this evidence-based, eight-step approach and help clients respond to uncomfortable&nbsp;emotions and reduce symptoms effectively.

Unified Protocol: A Transdiagnostic Treatment

Transform your therapeutic practice with Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). Learn the science of compassion and develop skills to help clients overcome chronic shame and self-criticism. This course provides practical guidance on incorporating CFT strategies, such as compassionate mind training and compassion-focused imagery, into your existing psychotherapy practice.&nbsp;

Compassion Focused Therapy

Learn how to deepen the role of compassion, courage, and wisdom in your therapy in this online course with the founder of CFT Paul Gilbert, and leading trainer Denis Tirch.

Gain the knowledge and skills to confidently and effectively&nbsp;treat mild to moderate non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in this online course. Understand the unique characteristics of NSSI and how it differs from suicidal beahviors. Learn best practice&nbsp;CBT and DBT strategies, and how to approach clients with compassion and sensitivity.&nbsp;

Treating Self-injury

Help clients build solutions. This course teaches you the core principles of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), a powerful, strengths-based approach that fosters rapid and meaningful change. Learn how to guide clients toward their goals by leveraging their existing resources, resilience, and successes - making therapy more dynamic, hopeful, and action-oriented.

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