CognitiveBehavioralTherapy
Global Social Media tag to reach broader public. Use for booklets including therapist guides, Intro to CBT and other academic courses.
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CBT for Low Self-esteem: It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not – Online Zoom Workshop |10 June 2026
Enhance your CBT practice with a comprehensive workshop on addressing low self-esteem. Learn Fennell’s cognitive model, transdiagnostic factors, and evidence-based interventions to help clients build resilience and self-acceptance.
Reserve your spot today and gain practical skills to support clients in overcoming low self-esteem and fostering lasting positive change.
This workshop is for people who are familiar with using CBT in clinical practice, who wish to gain a comprehensive understanding of using CBT to work with clients experiencing problems with or related to low self-esteem. Although low self-esteem is not a diagnostic category, it is a recognised feature of many psychological disorders. A vulnerability factor for some problems and a feature or consequence of others, low self-esteem can affect and perpetuate a person’s distress, independently o... READ MORE
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CBT for OCD in Children and Young People: Making Modifications to Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy to Enhance Accessibility and Efficacy of Intervention – Online Zoom Workshop | 12 February 2026
Join this interactive workshop to learn how to adapt CBT for young people with OCD. Gain practical skills in assessment, formulation, and developmentally appropriate interventions, including ERP and parental involvement, to improve therapy accessibility and outcomes.
Reserve your spot today and gain the confidence to deliver tailored CBT interventions that help children and adolescents overcome OCD. Start making a meaningful difference in young lives now!
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is thought to occur in between 1 and 4% of the child and adolescent population and is recognised to persist into adulthood if left untreated and to be associated with significant impairment for young people and their families across contexts. Despite the recognition that CBT, with appropriate developmental modifications, can be an effective method of treating OCD in young people, there is a dearth of evidence demonstrating how to effectively modify aspects of ... READ MORE
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Conceptualising Dissociation Across Disorders – Online Zoom Workshop | 14 January 2026
Join our postgraduate-level online workshop to deepen your understanding of dissociation and its link to trauma. Learn practical CBT strategies, explore neuropsychology, and gain confidence in recognising and managing dissociative symptoms.
Secure your place today and gain one-year access to expert-led content designed to help clinicians work effectively with trauma-related dissociation. Enhance your skills and make a real difference in your practice.
This is an online workshop. You will join the current cohort on the Postgraduate Certificate in Psychological Trauma and Personality Development course. Dissociation is a common, pan-diagnostic psychological phenomenon that can present in diverse ways, sometimes mundane and often vital. Dissociative responses range from brief “blanking” in sessions through to the presentation of Dissociative Identity Disorder (D.I.D) and they can involve intense “tuning in” as in flashbacks or intense... READ MORE
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Destination Unknown: Goal setting as a roadmap for successful therapy: Online Zoom Workshop | 29 January 2026
Join our practical workshop designed for therapists of all levels to master collaborative goal setting. Learn assessment tips, refine targets using Socratic questioning, tackle common challenges, and track progress effectively. Includes case examples, video role play, and interactive discussions.
Reserve your place today and take a positive step towards enhancing your confidence and effectiveness in setting and reviewing therapy goals with clients. Sign up now to supercharge your practice!
This brief workshop is aimed at therapists of all levels. We will refresh your theoretical and practical understanding of how to set successful therapy goals collaboratively with clients. You will learn: Practical tips for assessment Refining targets through collaborative Socratic questions Where to start when there are no goals! Common challenges and how to overcome them Tracking progress Reviewing and resetting goals in response to change This workshop will include ca... READ MORE
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How to…Do Imagery Rescripting
An online guide for your reading by Rachel Manser.
Unlock the full potential of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with our expertly crafted How to Guides. Designed to help CBT therapists refine specific procedural microskills, these guides are essential for enhancing treatment outcomes within the framework of a well-developed formulation, clear therapy goals, and a strong therapeutic alliance grounded in collaborative empiricism. How to... Do Imagery Rescripting by Rachel Manser offers comprehensive details to help you master and improve you... READ MORE
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Making an Appealing Offer of Therapy to Clients with Psychosis: How to Maximise Take up – Online Zoom Workshop | 21 January 2026
Boost your confidence in offering CBTp effectively. This 1-hour workshop equips therapists with strategies to engage service users, overcome barriers, and make therapy offers that inspire hope and acceptance.
Sign up today and learn practical techniques to engage service users and increase CBTp uptake. Take the first step towards supporting recovery journeys with confidence and compassion.
Understandably, people experiencing psychosis are not always help seeking. This can be for many reasons, including because their experiences have been invalidated, or they see little benefit in how psychological support can help with a ‘real’ problem. There is an increasing evidence base for CBTp, yet we cannot deliver this if the person isn’t in the session with us. The first job of being effective at offering CBT for psychosis is getting someone engaged enough to agree to meet with us fo... READ MORE
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Practical Strategies for Developing and Conducting Clinically Focussed Research in OCD and Related Problems – Online Zoom Workshop | 17 June 2026
Explore how research-driven strategies enhance OCD treatment and clinical practice in this interactive workshop. Learn about Single Case Experimental Design, qualitative methods, clinical trials, and practical ways to integrate research into everyday CBT work.
Sign up today to strengthen your clinical skills with evidence-based strategies for OCD treatment. Collaborate with peers, gain practical tools, and learn how to integrate research into your daily CBT practice.
In line with CBT in general, the understanding and treatment of OCD has been developed and refined through the application of research conducted in the context of “Empirically Grounded” strategies. In this workshop, the principles and foundations of such strategies will be described and illustrated mainly drawing on examples from the workshop leader’s work. The way that such research contributes to better clinical practice and spawns further research will be described and illustrated. A... READ MORE
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CBT Group Supervision – Online Zoom Workshop | 10 February 2026
Join our interactive workshop on group CBT supervision to explore best practices, group dynamics, and leadership styles. Gain practical experience through live supervision and learn frameworks to maximise benefits in a group setting.
Reserve your spot today and take the next step towards building confidence and competence in leading group supervision sessions. Empower your practice with proven techniques and supportive learning.
Much CBT supervision is delivered to small or large groups. This workshop considers how best to combine what we know about good practice in supervision with our knowledge of group dynamics, thus maximizing the benefits of supervision within a group setting. It will address: · The basics of ‘good’ supervision ( a brief refresher) · Similarities with, and differences from, individual supervision · Learning within groups · Group dynamics and leadership styles · A range of... READ MORE
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Getting going, keeping going: Overcoming apathy, fatigue and poor motivation in CBT – Online Zoom Workshop | 28 January 2026
Explore a neuropsychological and CBT-based framework to address apathy, fatigue, and poor motivation across mental health conditions. Learn practical strategies to help patients initiate and sustain meaningful change in therapy.
Join this empowering workshop and gain practical tools to help patients overcome barriers and move forward with confidence. Book your place today!
How often is wellbeing compromised because our patients just can’t get going, can’t take that first step. And how often does therapy slow or halt because they struggle to keep going? We see this across disorders: the person with depression who lacks initiation and who suffers from fatigue, the person with anxiety who fears change, the person with an eating disorder who can’t maintain a new regime, the person with ADHD who procrastinates, the person with GAD exhausted by chronic worry. Once... READ MORE
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SOS: Supervision of Supervision – Online Zoom Workshop | 11 February 2026
Join OCTC’s expert-led workshop on Supervision of Supervision (SoS) and learn how to enhance CBT supervision skills. Explore the Supervisor Competency Scale (SCS), review goals and evaluation methods, and gain practical experience through live exercises. Ideal for experienced CBT practitioners and supervisors.
Register today to strengthen your CBT supervision practice and gain practical tools for assessing and enhancing supervision skills. Take the next step towards delivering consistent, high-quality supervision across clinical services.
With growing numbers of CBT practitioners and the advent of increasing guidelines for competent supervision, the need for considered, consistent and high-level supervision across clinical services has become a CBT necessity. This has been highlighted by the BABCP’s move towards accreditation of CBT supervisors. Quite rightly, there is now recognition within the BABCP that CBT supervisors should receive high quality training and supervision - yet there remains relatively little to guide us o... READ MORE
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Bipolar Disorder: Managing Mood Swings
Managing Mood Swings | CBT Strategies for Bipolar and Beyond
Rachel Manser & Helen Close
Severe mood changes can disrupt life—but you can regain balance. This CBT-based booklet explains what causes mood swings and offers practical strategies to manage highs and lows, reduce persistence of low mood, and achieve stability. Written by expert psychologists Rachel Manser and Helen Close.
Order now and start your journey to a more balanced mood today!
Although we all experience changes in our moods, sometimes these can be severe and cause difficulties in our lives. This booklet uses cognitive behavioural principles to help understand what causes and maintains these mood changes. Although the title of the booklet mentions bipolar disorder, the booklet is designed to be useful to anyone who would like to better understand their significant changes in mood and learn strategies to manage. The strategies provided give tried and trusted cognitiv... READ MORE
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CBT Supervision
CBT Supervision | Essential Guide for Clinicians and Supervisors
Helen Kennerley
Supervision is key to maintaining high standards in CBT practice. This OCTC guide introduces contemporary principles, frameworks, and research, alongside proven best practices for effective supervision. Written by expert Helen Kennerley.
Order now and enhance your CBT supervision skills today!
Supervision is increasingly regarded as crucial in developing and maintaining adequate standards of CBT and there is an increased expectation that clinicians are offered sound support and guidance. This OCTC guide for clinicians will help you to develop as a CBT supervisor by introducing you to contemporary principles, frameworks and research along with a review of well-established principles of good practice and competencies in supervision. Helen Kennerley is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist ... READ MORE
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Making sense of military trauma
Making Sense of Military Trauma | CBT Strategies for Veterans and Families
Martina Mueller and Paul Andrews
Military deployments can lead to lasting trauma—but recovery is possible. This CBT-based booklet offers practical tools to process experiences and reconnect with life. Written by a clinical psychologist and a former soldier for serving personnel, veterans, and their families.
Order now and start your journey to healing today!
Whilst traumatic events can happen to anyone at any time, military deployments to conflict zones make this much more likely. Afterwards it can be hard to make sense of the experience particularly for a group of people who are used to self-reliance, minimizing and boxing things off. These strategies do work in the short term, but they don’t tend to be good long-term solutions. This booklet is co-written by a clinician and a former soldier and offers serving military personnel, veterans and... READ MORE
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An Introduction to Managing Psychosis
Managing Psychosis | CBT Strategies for Coping and Recovery
Rachel Manser and Louise Isham
Psychosis can feel overwhelming—but help is available. This CBT-based booklet offers practical strategies to manage distressing experiences, improve mood, and plan for the future. Written by expert psychologists Rachel Manser and Louise Isham.
Order now and start your journey to recovery today!
Psychosis is a broad term that includes fears that others are going to harm us, hearing voices which distress us, and low mood, amongst many other experiences. This booklet provides information and ideas from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help understand the distress we can feel and what can be done to help. It includes sections on understanding difficulties, immediate coping strategies, managing worry and sleep, improving our mood and planning for the future and provides tried and test... READ MORE
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Keep safe and carry on: coping with suicidal feelings
Coping with Suicidal Feelings | Hope and Recovery with CBT
Dr Khadija Rouf
Suicidal feelings are not uncommon—but there is hope. This easy-to-read CBT-based booklet offers practical strategies from research and best clinical practice to manage suicidal thoughts and restore meaning. Written by Dr Khadija Rouf, consultant clinical psychologist.
Get your booklet now and take the first step toward recovery!
Suicidal feelings are not uncommon and in the extreme, people may feel that they have no alternative but to act on these. This booklet shows that there is hope for recovery by managing suicidal feelings in a range of ways. Based on the principles of cognitive behaviour therapy, it contains strategies from current research and best clinical practice. It is written to avoid jargon and can be useful to patients, family members, carers and clinicians alike. With practice, time and support, ... READ MORE
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Changing perfectionism
Changing Perfectionism | CBT Strategies to Break Free from Unrealistic Standards
Sarah Egan, Roz Shafran & Tracey Wade
Perfectionism can help—but it can also harm. This CBT-based booklet explains clinical perfectionism, its impact on mental health, and practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. Written by leading experts Sarah Egan, Roz Shafran, and Tracey Wade.
Order your booklet now and start making positive changes!
Perfectionism can be helpful but it can also be unhelpful. It is associated with a range of mental health problems and can interfere with many aspects of life. This booklet describes ‘clinical perfectionism’ and its link with how people evaluate themselves. It uses cognitive behavioural methods to help understand the nature of clinical perfectionism and what can be done to change it. Sarah Egan is the Director of Clinical Psychology at Curtin University, Australia and does research i... READ MORE
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