Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Training Program

Description

The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Training Event consists of three online self-study courses, each of which consists of 5 hours of video training.

Many clinicians use elements of cognitive behavioral therapy, but an eclectic or technique-driven approach can leave out the structure and clinical reasoning that distinguish CBT from supportive counseling or a collection of coping skills. This comprehensive 15-hour certificate program helps behavioral health professionals strengthen those foundations, apply condition-specific cognitive models, and adapt treatment when resistance, longstanding patterns, or complex presentations make standard interventions more difficult.

Across three progressive courses, participants move beyond common misconceptions about CBT and learn to connect theory, schemas, case conceptualization, session structure, and intervention selection. The program emphasizes practical, collaborative methods tailored to client goals, values, preferences, readiness, safety, and pace of change, while recognizing the therapeutic relationship, environmental context, relapse prevention, and realistic expectations for progress.

Jeff Riggenbach, PhD, trained at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research and has spent more than 20 years developing and directing cognitive-behaviorally based programs for mood, anxiety, anger, addictive behavior, and personality disorders across multiple levels of psychiatric care. He has trained clinicians in all 50 states and nine countries. His experience includes helping develop a personality disorder treatment program that treated more than 500 patients with borderline personality disorder and many individuals with other personality disorders across two facilities over a 15-year period.

Through didactic teaching, case examples, guided exercises, demonstrations, case analysis, and humor, Jeff translates CBT theory into practical clinical decision-making. The program follows a building-block progression from client socialization and standard interventions to condition-specific models and advanced adaptations. Clinicians learn to use formulation, pacing, communication, session structure, and the therapeutic relationship purposefully rather than applying techniques mechanically or assuming one intervention fits every client.

The first course clarifies five common myths about CBT and addresses the cognitive model, three levels of cognition, 18 early maladaptive schemas, client socialization, collaborative conceptualization, structured sessions, and standard cognitive and behavioral interventions. The intermediate course examines distinct cognitive models for depression, anxiety, panic, anger, addictive behavior, and posttraumatic stress disorder, with attention to readiness, consent, medical safety, and pacing. The advanced course focuses on resistance and complex presentations, including borderline personality disorder, self-harm, interpersonal escalation, paranoia, and psychotic experiences, using an integrated CBT, dialectical behavior therapy, and schema-informed approach.

Key Takeaways

• Strong CBT Foundations: Understand what distinguishes CBT from isolated coping skills, socialize clients to the model, and use schemas and collaborative case conceptualization to guide goals, session agendas, interventions, and documentation.
• Condition-Specific Clinical Applications: Use cognitive models for depression, anxiety and panic, anger, addictive behavior, and posttraumatic stress disorder to identify maintaining processes and choose interventions that fit the client’s presentation, readiness, safety, and pace.
• Advanced Work With Complexity: Organize treatment for resistance, longstanding patterns, personality-related concerns, self-harm, paranoia, and psychotic experiences while adapting communication, expectations, the therapeutic relationship, and measures of progress.

Why this program?

• Progressive, Practice-Focused Learning: Move through three connected levels of training—from foundational theory and standard interventions to condition-specific models and advanced adaptations for complex cases.
• Applied Expert Instruction: Learn from a Beck Institute-trained clinician with more than 20 years of experience developing programs across multiple levels of care and training professionals nationally and internationally.
• Tools That Support Clinical Direction: Use conceptualization maps, cognitive and behavioral interventions, behavioral experiments, chain analyses, coping cards, relapse review, and recovery planning to make clinical decisions more intentional.

Enroll in this comprehensive 15-hour certificate program to strengthen the way you explain CBT, conceptualize cases, select interventions, and adapt treatment across a range of clinical presentations. By moving from core principles to condition-specific applications and complex case work, you will gain a clearer framework for practicing CBT with structure, collaboration, flexibility, and realistic expectations for change.

These courses are non-interactive self-studies.

Learning Objectives:

After participating in Foundations of CBT: Theory, Conceptualization, and Standard Interventions participants will be able to:

• Compare 5 myths associated with CBT with actual theory and outcomes.
• Describe a step-by-step method of socialization to the cognitive model in a way that elicits client buy-in and decreases dropout rates
• List the 3 levels of cognition addressed in CBT
• Identify 18 early maladaptive schemas and explain their role in client information processing.
• Utilize 3 behavioral and 3 cognitive interventions common in CBT practice

After participating in Intermediate Level CBT: Understanding Depression, Anxiety, and Other Specific Cognitive Models participants will be able to:

• Select behavioral activation activities to elevate affect in depressed patients to enhance cognitive change.
• Identify 3 cognitive distortions associated with anxiety and plan behavioral experiments disorders to help clients test assumptions to experientially internalize new learning.
• Discuss the role of moral resistance in the cognitive model of anger.
• Demonstrate strategies for breaking vicious cycles in addictive behavior disorders.
• Explain the 3 stages of treatment for clients with PTSD and describe interventions in each.

After participating in Advanced CBT: Overcoming Resistance and Treating Complex Cases participants will be able to:

• Describe 5 characteristics of a “Complex Case”.
• Analyze 3 types of resistance and utilize appropriate interventions for each.
• Discuss the 5 principles vital for treating clients with challenging conditions.
• Demonstrate 4 module skills training for personality-disordered individuals.
• Utilize a case study to assess the integrated treatment of one client with BPD.
• Compare “befriending” with cognitive-based interventions for individuals with psychosis and explain the indications for the usage of each.

Program Details

How to Attend: 

Course access and completion instructions.

Who Should Attend:

This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.

Teaching Methods: 

This is a series of 3 non-interactive online self-study courses.

How to earn the CBTTC: 

The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Training Certificate (CBTTC) program requires completion of three courses:

• Foundations of CBT: Theory, Conceptualization, and Standard Interventions

• Intermediate Level CBT: Understanding Depression, Anxiety, and Other Specific Cognitive Models

• Advanced CBT: Overcoming Resistance and Treating Complex Cases

Successful completion of each course will earn participants the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Training Certificate (CBTTC)

Instructor and Disclosures

Instructor

About Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D.

Jeff Riggenbach, PhD, is a best-selling and award-winning author/speaker/clinician who has trained audiences in all 50 United States, Canada, Mexico, The UK, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. He has devoted the past 25 years to developing advanced expertise in cognition and personality. He personally trained at The Beck Institute of Cognitive Therapy and Research to develop his hospital's Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment Program, which has not treated over 500 patients with BPD across multiple levels of care. He has since developed and directed cognitive-behavioral based programs for Depression, Anxiety Disorders, and Addictive Behavior Disorders. Jeff's approach of taking evidence-based treatments and presenting them in ways that can be used by everyday clinicians "in the trenches" has earned him the nickname "The Practical Toolbox Guy," and his trainings often receive the highest marks from conference participants.

Disclosure Statement: 

The instructor(s) for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.

CE Hours

Credit Hours:

This course consists of a total of 15 continuing education hours of credit. (Each course offers an individual certificate indicating CEs)

Counselors:

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No, 6693.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0048.

Marriage and Family Therapists:

Many MFT licensing boards accept our courses or one of the approvals which we have from professional associations.  You can check with your board to determine if your licensing board would accept this course.

Social Workers:

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, #1609, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 05/02/2024 – 05/02/2027. Social workers completing this program receive a total of 15 clinical continuing education credits.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers #SW-0435.

Addiction Professionals:
 

This course has been approved by Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #193104, Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is responsible for all aspects of the programming.

Psychologists:

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychologists #PSY-0128.

Art Therapists:

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Creative Arts Therapists #CAT-0093.

Other Professionals:

This course qualifies for 900 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations.  Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.

This program sonsists of interactive, live online webinar.

Participants may request a printed version of their certificate of completion to be delivered by mail. A shipping/handling fee of $6.95 will be charged per request. Shipping internationally may require an additional charge.

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