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CBT for DepressionDr. Nina Josefowitz has over thirty years’ experience as a CBT therapist and teacher and is the author of CBT Made Simple. -
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CBT TrainingDr. Nina Josefowitz has over thirty years’ experience as a CBT therapist and teacher and is the author of CBT Made Simple.
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Anxiety and Worry TherapyDr Jennifer Abel provides proven therapeutic techniques to help your clients work through the spiral of anxiety and successfully face their fears -
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Hypnosis For Pain Relief TrainingWorld-renowned clinical psychologist and professor with over 30 years' experience using hypnosis for pain control offers a step-by-step guide to using hypnosis to enhance your clinical practice. -
Advanced Trauma Therapy TrainingWorld-renowned trauma clinical psychologist and clinician with over 30 years’ experience helping survivors to accept and love their wounded selves. -
Childhood Sexual AbuseForensic Psychologist Dr Tarra Bates-Duford offers expert therapy approaches for treating survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) -
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Emotional RegulationClinical psychologist with over 20 years’ experience helping people manage out of control emotions, irrationality, feelings of hopelessness and distress.
CBT Training
36 sessions with Dr Nina Josefowitz
This CBT Training module provides practical insights into identifying and evaluating thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, understanding dysfunctional patterns, and developing balanced thinking. It covers behavioural activation, problem-solving, relaxation, mindfulness, and core CBT strategies, equipping clinicians with tools to assess, plan, and support lasting cognitive, emotional, and behavioural change.
Test your knowledge – complete the short quiz at the end of each session for professional development (CPD/CME/CE). By successfully completing all quizzes in this module you will be eligible for a Certificate of Achievement.
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SESSIONS IN THIS MODULE
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Introducing Dr Nina Josefowitz and CBT
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she introduces herself and her work as a CBT therapist. Discover the CBT Training series, designed to provide a solid foundation and systematically build your CBT skills. Each session includes practical worksheets, homework, and quizzes to help you confidently apply CBT in real-world settings.
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Introduction to CBT
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz for an introduction to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT). Explore how CBT theory helps you and your clients understand problems, identify vicious cycles, and uncover patterns that keep difficulties in place. Gain practical insights to help clients break free and create positive change.
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Core Beliefs and Underlying Assumptions
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she explores how thoughts and behaviours maintain problems, and the crucial role of core beliefs. Learn what core beliefs and underlying assumptions are, how they shape client thinking, and how to identify them from a client’s psycho-social history to inform effective therapeutic interventions.
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Assess Problems and Strengths
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she explores how to access client problems and strengths. Learn to create a problem list, ask key questions to understand difficulties, and uncover client strengths and current functioning. Gain practical strategies to guide clients toward effective solutions and build on their capabilities.
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Setting Goals
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she explores goal setting in therapy. Learn how to identify meaningful client goals, understand their role in strengthening the therapeutic relationship, and discover practical strategies to set achievable, motivating goals that guide clients toward progress, engagement, and lasting positive change.
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Structuring Sessions
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she explores how to structure therapy sessions effectively. Learn the essentials of session flow, including setting the agenda, guiding discussions with key questions, and concluding sessions purposefully. Gain practical strategies to enhance session focus, client engagement, and therapeutic outcomes.
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Identifying Clients’ Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions (Part 1)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she explores how to identify clients’ feelings, thoughts, behaviours, and physical reactions. Learn practical techniques for collaborative writing, pinpointing situations, and rating emotions, helping clients gain insight into patterns and fostering awareness, reflection, and effective interventions in therapy.
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Mindfulness and Relaxation
In this session, Dr Nina Josefowitz explores mindfulness and relaxation within CBT. She explains diffusion, demonstrates how to integrate mindfulness into practice, and outlines brief, effective relaxation techniques clinicians can use to help clients reduce distress and increase present-moment awareness.
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Face your Fears: Exposure Therapy: Part 1
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she explores exposure therapy, revealing how avoidance fuels fear and how structured exposure can break the cycle. Learn to identify suitable challenges, create fear hierarchies, and apply practical techniques that help clients confront and overcome their fears, building confidence and resilience in the process.
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Introduction and using the Four Factor Model (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she introduces the CBT demonstration series and demonstrates the Four Factor Model in action. Learn how to apply this structured approach with clients to understand the interaction of thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and physical responses, and gain practical strategies for effective therapy sessions.
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Rating Feelings (Demo)
In this session, Dr Nina Josefowitz demonstrates how to rate feelings collaboratively with a client. She shows how to use a simple rating scale to clarify emotional intensity, track changes over time, and support shared understanding within the therapeutic process.
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Graded Tasks for Effective Behaviour Change (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she demonstrates the power of graded task assignments. Learn how breaking overwhelming tasks into manageable chunks can reduce stress, increase motivation, and kickstart meaningful behaviour change. Discover practical strategies for creating effective behaviour change plans that empower clients to take the first steps toward success.
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Identifying Clients’ Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions (Part 2)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she continues exploring how to identify clients’ thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and physical reactions. Learn key questions and strategies to help clients see how these elements interact, revealing patterns that maintain difficulties and empowering them to break free from unhelpful cycles.
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Foundations of Behaviour Change (Part 1)
In this session, Dr Nina Josefowitz explores core skills for behavioural change. She examines how dysfunctional behaviours may be unintentionally reinforced and outlines the key characteristics of an effective, structured behaviour plan that supports sustainable change in clinical practice.
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Face your Fears: Exposure Therapy: Part 2
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she continues exploring exposure therapy. Learn how to conduct exposure sessions, move clients up the fear hierarchy, and handle anxiety that arises during the process. Discover practical strategies to make exposure therapy safe, effective, and transformative for clients confronting their fears.
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Identifying Clients’ Problems (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she demonstrates how to effectively explore client problems while highlighting their strengths. Learn practical techniques to balance identifying challenges with recognising resources, empowering clients, and fostering confidence, insight, and engagement in the therapeutic process.
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Identifying Thoughts (Demo)
In this session, Dr Nina Josefowitz demonstrates how to identify thoughts collaboratively with a client. Using targeted questioning, she explores automatic thoughts in depth and guides the process of uncovering the client’s central negative thought driving emotional distress.
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Relaxation Strategies (Demo)
In this demonstration, Dr Nina Josefowitz shows how to incorporate relaxation strategies into therapy. She demonstrates two effective breathing techniques—Deep Breathing and Box Breathing—and explains how and when to practice them to help clients reduce stress, regulate emotions, and enhance overall well-being.
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Foundations of Behaviour Change (Part 2)
In this session, Dr Nina Josefowitz explores key skills for behavioural change. She outlines how to use motivational interviewing, develop effective coping thoughts, and apply imagery rehearsal to strengthen motivation, increase confidence, and support lasting behavioural change.
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Behavioural Experiments
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she explores behavioural experiments in CBT. Learn how to identify clients’ underlying assumptions and rules for living, assess their accuracy, and develop new, adaptive rules. Discover practical strategies to design behavioural experiments that challenge unhelpful beliefs and promote meaningful change.
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Setting Goals (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she demonstrates goal-setting with a client, focusing on social anxiety. Learn practical strategies to identify meaningful, achievable goals, guide clients in addressing fears, and use structured goal-setting to increase motivation, confidence, and progress in therapy.
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Looking for Evidence (Demo)
In this session, Dr Nina Josefowitz demonstrates how to examine the accuracy of clients’ negative automatic thoughts. She shows how to select a key thought driving strong emotions and use the Examine the Reality of Your Thoughts worksheet to evaluate evidence collaboratively.
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Imagery Rehearsal (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she demonstrates imagery rehearsal, a powerful technique to help clients practice new behaviours mentally before trying them in real life. Learn how guided mental rehearsal can increase confidence, reduce anxiety, and make adopting new behaviours feel more achievable and natural for your clients.
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Identify Your Client’s Thinking Traps
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she uncovers the hidden thinking traps that hold clients back. Learn to identify patterns like filtering, overgeneralizing, mind-reading, catastrophizing, and rigid “shoulds.” Discover practical strategies to leverage these insights in counselling, empowering clients to break free from unhelpful thought cycles.
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Look for the Evidence of your Client’s Thoughts
In this session, Dr Nina Josefowitz explores how to uncover the evidence behind clients’ thoughts. She introduces Socratic questioning and demonstrates how targeted, curious inquiry helps clients examine assumptions, evaluate beliefs, and develop more balanced, evidence-based thinking in therapeutic practice.
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Problem Solving
In this session, Dr Nina Josefowitz explores problem-solving skills in therapy. She explains how to help clients overcome avoidance, defines what effective problem solving entails, and outlines the four essential steps: identify the problem, generate solutions, evaluate options, and implement and review a chosen solution.
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Core belief work and Review
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she explores working with core beliefs in therapy. Learn how to identify clients’ core beliefs, understand their impact on thoughts and behaviours, and apply practical strategies to help clients modify unhelpful beliefs, fostering lasting change and personal growth.
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Structuring a Session (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she demonstrates how to structure a therapy session effectively. Learn how to create a session plan, set an agenda, and review progress with clients, ensuring focused, goal-oriented sessions that enhance engagement, clarity, and therapeutic outcomes.
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Balanced Thoughts (Demo)
In this demonstration, Dr Nina Josefowitz shows how to help clients create balanced thoughts after examining the evidence for and against their negative automatic thoughts. She also explains practical strategies to consolidate these new, adaptive thoughts, ensuring they are meaningful, memorable, and integrated into everyday thinking.
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Problem Solving (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she demonstrates a structured problem-solving approach to help clients tackle challenges effectively. Learn how to guide clients in overcoming impulsivity and avoidance, equipping them with practical skills to find solutions, regain control, and make thoughtful decisions that improve their lives and well-being.
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Create balanced thoughts
In this session, Dr Nina Josefowitz explores how to develop balanced thoughts in therapy. She outlines key Socratic questions that guide clients toward more realistic perspectives and demonstrates effective strategies for helping clients consolidate and strengthen these balanced, adaptive ways of thinking.
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Behavioural Activation for Client Motivation (Part 1)
In this session, Dr Nina Josefowitz explores behavioural activation for depression. She introduces a behavioural model, shows how to break cycles of avoidance and inactivity, and demonstrates how to monitor clients’ daily activities to increase engagement, mood, and overall well-being.
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Identifying Clients’ Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions (Demo)
In this session, Dr Nina Josefowitz demonstrates how to help clients identify feelings, physical reactions, behaviours, and thoughts. Using a live example, she works through the Understand Your Reaction worksheet, showing how this structured CBT tool builds insight, clarity, and emotional awareness.
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Dysfunctional Thought Patterns (Demo)
In this demonstration, Dr Nina Josefowitz shows how to help clients identify dysfunctional thought patterns, or “mind traps.” These habitual thinking styles contribute to negative emotions and unhelpful behaviours, and recognizing them is the first step toward cognitive restructuring and more balanced, adaptive thinking.
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Behavioural Activation Part 1 (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she demonstrates how to use a Daily Activities Schedule (DAS) to monitor clients’ routines. Learn how to help clients identify patterns between their daily activities and mood, uncovering actionable insights that support behaviour change, improved wellbeing, and more effective therapeutic interventions.
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Behavioural Activation for Client Motivation (Part 2)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she delves deeper into behavioural activation. Learn to plan mood-boosting activities, monitor client progress, overcome obstacles, and establish healthy routines. Discover practical strategies to help clients build resilience and maintain well-being, even during stressful times, using the power of behavioural activation.