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CBT for Depression
30 sessions with Dr Nina Josefowitz
This module provides in-depth learning on key aspects of treating depression using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), including Behavioural Activation, Motivation Enhancement, Problem-Solving, Identifying and Challenging Negative Thoughts, Developing Balanced Thoughts, and Relapse Prevention. Participants will explore practical tools such as activity monitoring, thought documentation, collaborative questioning, and resilience-building strategies. Each session builds on the previous to equip therapists with actionable skills for supporting clients in mood regulation, cognitive restructuring, and sustaining meaningful behavioural change.
Test your knowledge—complete the short quiz at the end of each session for professional development (CPD/CME/CE). Successfully completing all quizzes earns a Certificate of Achievement.
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SESSIONS IN THIS MODULE
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What is Depression?
Discover how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy transforms the treatment of depression. Dr Nina Josefowitz introduces the Four-Factor Model and behavioural activation, showing how targeted action can lift mood, break cycles of inactivity, and create meaningful change through practical, evidence-based CBT strategies.
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Identify Triggers and Their Consequences
Explore the practical power of Behavioural Activation with Dr Nina Josefowitz. Learn how timelines, activity charts, and real-life case examples reveal patterns of avoidance and inactivity, helping clients reintroduce positive activities that lift mood and disrupt the cycle of depression.
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Encourage Additional Mood-Boosting Activities
Expand clients’ mood-boosting options with Behavioural Activation. Dr Nina Josefowitz introduces new activity categories and the “Predict Your Mood” tool, helping clients test expectations, track real mood shifts, and build effective, personalised activity plans that support recovery from depression.
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Start to Develop Mood-Boosting Activities
Learn how to turn insight into action using the Daily Activity Schedule. Dr Nina Josefowitz shows how analysing activity–mood patterns helps clients identify mood-boosting routines, increase engagement, and build personalised behavioural strategies to lift depression, even during low-energy periods.
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Daily Activities Schedule (DAS)
Discover how daily routines shape mood in depression treatment. Dr Nina Josefowitz introduces the Daily Activity Schedule (DAS), showing how tracking activities and mood reveals hidden patterns, challenges beliefs of constant low mood, and uncovers opportunities for meaningful, mood-boosting change.
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Strategies to Increase Motivation
Boost client motivation with evidence-based strategies for behavioural activation. Dr Nina Josefowitz introduces motivational interviewing, decisional balance, and the Premack principle, offering practical ways to overcome inertia, strengthen commitment, and support clients in engaging with meaningful, mood-boosting activities.
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More Strategies to Increase Motivation
Strengthen client motivation with advanced behavioural activation strategies. Dr Nina Josefowitz explores motivational interviewing OR skills and decisional balance, helping therapists create collaborative conversations that clarify values, reduce ambivalence, and support clients in choosing meaningful, mood-boosting actions.Dr Josefowitz further explores the Premack Principle, which involves pairing a less desirable activity with a preferred one. This...
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Problem Solving: Set the Stage
Explore modern CBT strategies for treating depression with Dr Nina Josefowitz. Learn how to identify negative thought patterns, challenge self-defeating beliefs, and cultivate adaptive thinking styles that build emotional resilience and support lasting recovery through practical, evidence-based techniques.
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Problem Solving: Find Effective Solutions
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she takes goal-setting to the next level, exploring creative problem-solving strategies. Learn how to guide clients in brainstorming, evaluating, and implementing effective solutions while fostering flexibility, resilience, and a positive mindset. Real-world examples make this session practical, engaging, and immediately applicable.
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Identify Your Clients Depressive Thoughts
Shift from behaviour to cognition in CBT for depression. Dr Nina Josefowitz introduces how to identify automatic depressive thoughts, understand their impact on emotions and behaviour, and use guided questioning and worksheets to build self-awareness and emotional regulation.
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Evidence for Your Client’s Negative Thinking
Begin examining the evidence behind negative thoughts. Dr Nina Josefowitz guides therapists in helping clients identify and document reasons they believe their depressive thoughts—about themselves, others, or the future—are true, laying the foundation for deeper cognitive restructuring in CBT.
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Evidence Against Your Client’s Negative Thinking
Learn how to challenge negative thoughts in depression. Dr Nina Josefowitz guides clients to identify evidence against harmful thinking, using open-ended questions, collaborative exploration, and detailed documentation to confront cognitive distortions, foster autonomy, and build a more balanced, resilient mindset.Dr Josefowitz explores key techniques including; asking open-ended questions to encourage exploration, avoiding direct instruction to...
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Creating Balanced Thoughts
Dr Nina Josefowitz guides therapists in helping clients develop balanced thoughts to counter depression. Building on evidence-based cognitive work, the session explores techniques for constructing emotionally resonant, realistic alternatives to negative thinking, reinforcing new patterns that replace rigid, self-defeating thoughts with supportive and nuanced perspectives.
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Developing Resilience
Dr Nina Josefowitz explores ending therapy and building lasting resilience against depression relapse. The session highlights behavioural activation, self-care, and cognitive-behavioural skills, guiding clients to maintain routines, strengthen social connections, recognize early warning signs, and cultivate problem-solving strategies to navigate challenges and sustain emotional wellbeing.
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Identify Dysfunctional Thought Patterns
Explore the cognitive traps that reinforce depression. Dr Nina Josefowitz introduces common cognitive distortions, teaching therapists how to help clients identify, label, and distance themselves from harmful thoughts, while using mindfulness techniques to manage emotional responses and prepare for deeper cognitive work.
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Introduction to CBT Theory and Behavioural Activation (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she demonstrates the CBT Four-Factor Model in action. Working with her client Julia, she maps feelings, thoughts, physical reactions, and behaviours, explores how avoidance fuels depression, and highlights the importance of increasing engagement with daily activities to break the cycle and kickstart meaningful treatment.
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Understand Your Client’s Depression: How Life Changes and Stressors Can Lead to Depression (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she guides the first steps of Behavioral Activation in CBT. Witness how thoughtful assessment and small, realistic re-engagement goals help clients like Julia counteract depression. This session demonstrates compassionate, practical strategies to turn disengagement into meaningful action while fostering hope and progress.
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Understand Your Client’s Depression: How Daily Activities Are Related to Depression (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she guides the next step in Behavioral Activation, exploring how daily activities influence mood. Using the Daily Activity Schedule, participants learn to identify patterns, discover what lifts or lowers mood, and set gentle, realistic goals—turning everyday actions into meaningful steps toward emotional well-being.
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Start to Develop Mood-Boosting Activities (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she shows how to help clients boost mood through structured, actionable steps. Using a daily activity schedule, patterns are uncovered, and positive activities—like social interaction and exercise—are prioritized. Learn practical strategies to guide clients in setting realistic plans that enhance mood and daily functioning.
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Encourage Additional Mood-Boosting Activities (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she guides clients to expand mood-boosting activities. Using progress review and the “Predict Your Mood” worksheet, participants learn to challenge negative assumptions, explore rewarding actions, and set socially engaging goals. This session demonstrates practical CBT strategies for linking behaviour to values and fostering positive change.
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Strategies to Increase Motivation (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she tackles low motivation in recovery. Using imaginal rehearsal and values-based motivation, participants learn how to help clients like Julia overcome avoidance and commit to meaningful actions. This session demonstrates practical CBT strategies for building psychological readiness, emotional relevance, and follow-through on important goals.
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More Strategies to Increase Motivation (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she introduces three powerful motivational tools in CBT: Concrete and Specific Planning, Decisional Balance, and the Premack Principle. Through her client Julia, participants see how to apply these strategies to overcome avoidance, initiate social contact, and build daily routines, fostering motivation and meaningful progress.Throughout the session, Dr. Josefowitz skillfully applies...
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Problem Solving: Set the Stage (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she demonstrates the foundational steps of problem-solving for clients with depression. Using collaborative techniques with her client Julia, participants learn how to turn vague distress into clearly defined problems, foster client ownership, and set actionable goals—laying the groundwork for effective CBT interventions.
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Problem Solving: Find Effective Solutions (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she demonstrates structured problem-solving in CBT. Following her client Julia, participants learn to brainstorm diverse solutions, evaluate feasibility, and plan implementation with specificity. This session highlights collaborative, client-centred strategies that foster autonomy, motivation, and actionable follow-through in addressing depression.
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Identify Your Client’s Depressive Thoughts (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she explores the cognitive side of CBT for depression. Working with her client Julia, she demonstrates how to identify and examine negative automatic thoughts using structured worksheets, fostering curiosity, compassion, and deeper understanding of how thoughts influence feelings and behaviours.This session powerfully demonstrates how to identify and articulate depressive cognitions,...
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Identify Dysfunctional Thought Patterns (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she demonstrates cognitive interventions for depression. Working with her client Julia, she shows how mindfulness and identification of cognitive distortions—like “mind reading” and “fortune telling”—can help clients gain distance from negative thoughts, reduce their emotional impact, and foster healthier thinking patterns.This session powerfully demonstrates how to identify and articulate depressive...
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Evidence for Your Client’s Negative Thinking (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she demonstrates CBT techniques for exploring negative self-beliefs. Working with her client Julia, she uses the “Examine the Reality of Your Thoughts” worksheet to gather evidence, manage emotional distress, and make overwhelming thoughts more manageable—laying the foundation for effective cognitive restructuring.
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Evidence Against Your Client’s Negative Thinking (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she demonstrates how to challenge self-defeating thoughts in clients with depression. Working with Julia, she uses structured questions and reflective prompts to uncover emotionally compelling evidence against beliefs like “I’m too stupid,” helping clients build balanced, self-compassionate perspectives and transform their self-perception.
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Creating Balanced Thoughts (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz as she demonstrates how to develop balanced thoughts in CBT. Working with Julia, she reviews evidence for and against core beliefs, generates alternative perspectives, and uses repetition, writing, and body-based techniques to anchor new thinking—helping clients practice healthier responses and reduce the impact of unhelpful thoughts.
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Developing Resilience (Demo)
Join Dr. Nina Josefowitz and her client Julia as they reflect on their CBT journey. Revisiting interventions like behavioural activation, problem-solving, and cognitive restructuring, the session highlights Julia’s progress, relapse-prevention strategies, and the lifelong value of therapeutic skills, emphasising resilience, continued engagement, and the ongoing practice of mood-boosting strategies.