CBT Coach Practitioner Certification (ACCREDITED)

Explore the history and basics of CBT, the ABC framework, and how unhelpful thinking patterns, defence mechanisms, cognitive dissonance, and cognitive bias inform a coaching framework for CBT practitioners.

Trace the origins of CBT from 1960s cognitive therapy to a broad modern framework. Explore automatic thoughts, the ABC framework, and how CBT analyzes and reshapes thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

Explore the ABC model core of CBT, tracing how activating events and beliefs produce consequences—thoughts, emotions, and behaviors—and learn to apply a CAIB coaching approach.

Explore a simple coaching model aligned with the ABC framework for CBT to identify the current state, root causes, and actions toward a desired outcome.

Identify and challenge unhelpful thinking patterns such as all-or-nothing thinking, overgeneralization, mental filtering, disqualifying the positive, and mind reading to help clients gain cognitive flexibility.

Explore five unhelpful thinking patterns: fortune telling, maximization and minimization, emotional reasoning, should statements, and labeling, and learn how to recognize and reframe them in CBT practice.

Identify unhelpful thinking patterns like personalization, the illusion of control, fairness, change, and the belief you're always right. Recognize defense mechanisms to help clients move on and improve their lives.

Identify defense mechanisms such as denial, repression, displacement, and projection, rooted in the unconscious mind, to recognize their impact on clients and your life and bring them to conscious awareness.

Identify four defense mechanisms—opposite reactions, regression, rationalization, and sublimation—and note that eight defense mechanisms exist, with cognitive dissonance to follow.

Explore cognitive dissonance as a mental tug of war between old and new beliefs, and learn CBT tools to resolve it, align behavior, and foster empowering change.

Explore cognitive bias as our frame of reality, shaped by beliefs, values, and emotions, and learn to challenge these biases to embrace multiple perspectives in CBT coaching.

The lecture wraps up CBT basics section with a recap of its history and the ABC framework. It highlights the CRB coaching, unhelpful thinking patterns, cognitive biases, and cognitive dissonance.

Explore the consequence section from a CAIB perspective to map current state, distinguish thoughts from feelings, and rank emotions and behaviors for healthier change using paying attention and a worksheet.

Establish rapport and define exactly what’s going on by detailing what clients think, feel, and do in moments of depression, anxiety, anger, or overwhelm to reveal the root causes.

Identify the difference between thoughts and feelings and dig past thought patterns to reveal the underlying emotion, with examples of one-word emotions like happiness, anger, or sadness.

Master the anatomy of an emotion using the CBT approach by identifying thoughts, images, language in the head, and physical sensations, then shift attention and actions to change the emotion.

Learn a practical language trick to disassociate from strong emotions by naming the feeling or behavior in the third person, enabling quick perspective shifts and calmer action.

Learn to map and rank client emotions by frequency across a day, week, or month, gaining clarity on patterns and guiding goals toward desired emotions.

This lecture clarifies healthy versus unhealthy emotions, showing how anger and fear can become healthy when channeled into action and as a wake-up call toward change.

Track your daily primary thoughts and emotions over a week or two with a simple worksheet to reveal patterns and deepen conscious awareness for CBT work.

Wraps up the consequences section by digging beneath clients' stories, differentiating thoughts from feelings, and naming and ranking emotions. Prepare to explore activating events in the next section.

Explore activating events in CBT, digging deeper to uncover what drives the consequence and the patterns they reveal, including the clarity of truth and negative automatic thoughts.

Dig deeper into activating events to uncover past or grouped triggers shaping current feelings and behaviors, using a guided questionnaire to reveal key decisions.

Explore how peace and quiet reveal inner truth in therapy by guiding clients to slow down, dig deeper, and create a safe space for mindful reflection.

Identify negative automatic thoughts in CBT, see how activating events trigger self-defeating patterns of beliefs, images, words, or questions, and learn to break the cycle.

Identify cognitive and physical patterns behind negative automatic thoughts when triggers activate. Shift questions from why this happens to how I can feel better, and change physical and emotional patterns.

Identify activation points and past life decisions that shape current patterns, then transform negative automatic thoughts and emotional and physical responses by redefining beliefs into empowering ones.

Explore how beliefs form from thoughts and meanings, identify and challenge negative automatic thoughts with questionnaires, switch thinking, and install empowering beliefs using cost-benefit analysis and zig zag worksheets.

Explore how external and internal experiences shape thought processes, including filtering by beliefs and values, identify the gatekeeper, and learn to switch negative automatic thoughts using a worksheet and questionnaire.

Apply switch thinking to replace negative automatic thoughts with conscious, actionable alternatives using a worksheet that guides you to form new, empowering thoughts.

Guides you through a structured CBT worksheet to identify negative automatic thoughts, switch to healthier alternatives, evaluate evidence, and build balanced thinking for better feelings and behavior.

Learn how meaning making shapes mood in CBT by examining how experiences feed the cyclone of thoughts and questions, and how switching to empowering questions creates new meanings.

Discover and map irrational beliefs using CBT-style questionnaires, moving them from unconscious to conscious by analyzing activating events, negative automatic thoughts, meanings, and beliefs to enable change.

Explore how to dispute limiting and irrational beliefs using a 10-question questionnaire and prepare for Socratic questioning, helping clients and yourself reframe thoughts.

Apply cbt disputing beliefs through Socratic questioning, using twenty questions to examine evidence, interpretations, and empowering alternative beliefs.

Check in with yourself to replace limiting beliefs with an empowering, flexible, and positive belief system. Ensure these beliefs serve you, foster growth, and align with your values.

Apply the zigzag worksheet to strengthen an empowering belief: set initial commitment, map challenges, defend them, and render limiting beliefs ineffective in client work.

Explore common limiting beliefs in CBT, including I'm not enough and I must or should, using two questionnaires to help clients recognize and change irrational beliefs for lasting change.

Apply a CBT cost-benefit analysis to replace a limiting belief with an empowering one, using a worksheet to assess short- and long-term costs and benefits for clients.

Review the thought process, challenge limiting beliefs with questionnaires and Socratic questioning, and replace them with empowering beliefs through the zigzag method and cost-benefit analysis.

Boost self awareness by examining identity, values, and perspectives, and understand how locus of control shapes your choices. Live to what matters most and let cognitive flexibility reduce emotional issues.

Discover your true identity at the core, beyond work or money, and learn to live by your values to empower clients’ emotional well-being.

Discover your core identity through the 'Who am I' exercise, articulating 'I am' and 'I am a' statements from the heart to live your life on your terms.

Explore locus of control in CBT, contrasting external and internal locus of control, emphasizing responsibility and conscious actions to influence one’s life, emotions, and beliefs.

Develop self-awareness by resisting the comparison cage, compare yourself to yesterday, cultivate internal locus of control, and focus on personal growth rather than others' lives.

Develop cognitive flexibility by exploring multiple perspectives and offering clients varied problem-solving approaches, enabling them to live life on their terms and become agents of change.

Explore the three point perspective to shift your internal viewpoints. Imagine your problem in a coffee shop, then observe it from an observer's perspective to hear thoughts and emotions.

Explore the perspective board meeting exercise to gather four viewpoints—family member, admired person, leader, and a successful figure—and turn their insights into practical strategies for resolving your issue.

Explore how personal timelines shape self-awareness by balancing past and future with the here and now, and apply three-point perspective for mindfulness and concentration.

Develop concentration in the moment using three practices—read and walk, a listening exercise, and distract and concentrate—to sharpen focus, memory, and emotional control.

Explore how mindfulness joins CBT to form mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, an eight-week approach for emotion recovery and present-moment focus.

Explore your personal values to boost self-awareness by identifying what is most important now, in the last 3–6 months, and across your life.

Rank your core values and compare them to determine what's most important now, focusing on love, integrity, and contribution, and translate that into meaningful action.

Identify your top value and map the rules that must happen for you to feel it; consciously simplify these rules to reliably meet that value.

Explore self-awareness through identity, internal locus of control, and the comparison cage to yesterday, while expanding perspectives, embracing here-and-now mindfulness, and aligning actions with core values and rules.

Explore situational coping strategies and why merely coping with emotional issues keeps you stuck, and learn to resolve underlying causes rather than masking them.

Explore coping strategies, including avoidance and trying to control everything, that do not resolve issues. Learn to recognize and resolve emotional patterns through awareness and deeper self-examination.

Explore how imagining catastrophes acts as a distraction, and learn coping strategies: distraction, worried prevention, and preventing perpetuation—to address deeper issues consciously rather than masking them.

Learn how to plan and set goals for clients, aligning emotional and behavioral outcomes with practical actions, timelines, and strategies to overcome obstacles in daily life.

Learn to plan for improvement by setting goals and actionable steps. Use behavioral and emotional questionnaires to move clients toward healthier patterns and lasting change.

Identify the opposite and ideal opposite of your issue, describe in detail the ideal life, and create vivid imagery or a story to guide action toward change.

Learn how to help clients discover specific, measurable, achievable, recorded, and time-bound actions to improve outcomes, using an action-based smart framework and progress tracking.

Learn to preplan for objections and create a concrete plan for overcoming obstacles by considering what can go wrong, the hardest steps, and what you will specifically do.

Set appropriate timelines with clients by breaking goals into smaller chunks, creating between-session actions, and setting finish-line targets to avoid overwhelm and achieve lasting change.

Learn improvement planning by clarifying client goals, describing the ideal outcome, and outlining actionable steps. Predict and overcome objections, set timelines between sessions, and prepare for controlled experiments with clients.

Develop evidence-based insight by guiding clients through controlled experiments to test specific thought and emotional patterns, using a checklist to prove or disprove beliefs and identify alternatives.

Explore four types of experiments in CBT coach practitioner certification—testing predictions, truth seeking, surveys, and observational perspectives—to gather evidence that challenges limiting beliefs and moves clients toward action.