Practical CBT

06/02/2026

Schema Therapy - Beyond the Basics
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy: An Introduction

Check out our certificated CPD events this weekend.
Led by Professor Patrick McGhee is a CBT therapist, psychologist and UK National Teaching Fellow.

Schema Therapy - Beyond the Basics
Feb 7 from 9am to 11am GMT

Schema Therapy - Book Now.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1877568360509?aff=oddtdtcreator

Schema therapy (ST) is an integrative approach that brings together cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment and object relations theories. It was created by by Jeff Young in 1990 and has been developed and updated in several ways since then. Schema therapy is considered an effective way of conceptualizing and treating a wide range of adult emotional issues include personality difficulties. Some of the distinguishing features of schema therapy.

- more emphasis upon the development of current issues in childhood.
- more emphasis on the power of the therapist–client relationship
- more emphasis on understanding their clients' core emotional needs and how to meet those those needs adaptively in relationships.
- more emphasis on processing memories of negative childhood experiences, making use of experiential techniques to change related negative emotions

Everyone who registers will be able to get a full Schema Profile with an automated personalised profile.

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy: An Introduction
Feb 8 from 9am to 11am GMT

DBT - Book Now
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dialectical-behavioural-therapy-an-introduction-tickets-1979381240574?aff=oddtdtcreator

DBT’s roots are firmly planted in the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy. CBT provided a structured, skills-based approach to understanding and changing problematic thoughts and behaviours. Linehan adopted many of CBT’s core techniques, such as behavioural analysis, skills training, and homework assignments. However, she also recognised the limitations of a purely change-focused model, especially for clients who felt misunderstood or invalidated by their environment.

This workshop will:

Explore core ideas in DBT
Examine the contemporary clinical practices
Review the key skill sets in DBT
- Mindfulness Skills in DBT
- Distress Tolerance Skills
- Emotion Regulation Skills
- Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills

An introduction to the deeper techniques, ideas and concepts of Schema Therapy.

19/01/2026

The Ultimate CBT Handbook 2026 is now available.

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What’s inside?
Now available as an eBook in pdf format. Instant delivery. Get it today. Full licence to print and copy all pages for use with clients in your clinical practice.

Across 250+ pages, you’ll find:

- A full 2026 planner to map your clinical, personal, and professional year
- Monthly planning and review tools to help you stay intentional rather than reactive
- Core CBT checklists for sessions, risk, homework, neurodiversity, and documentation
- Session agenda templates for first, general, and final sessions
- Mid-treatment review frameworks to recalibrate therapy when things stall
- Supervision toolkits (for supervisees and supervisors)
- Resources for teletherapy, how to handle no-shows, recording sessions, and boundaries
- Neuro-affirmative practice guidance grounded in real clinical work
- Clear, ethical guidance on using AI in CBT (what to use, what to avoid, how to document it)
- Professional development and CPD planning tools, including audit readiness
- Business and fee guidance for UK & Ireland
- Templates for liaising with GPs and Coroners including standard letters pro formas you can use
- Self-care and burnout prevention resources for therapists themselves
- Superb guidance digital developments including the World's 50 - Best Websites for CBT Therapists
- the Top Ten free apps for Clients for 2026
- Indispensable Directory Addresses for 20 key organisations in the UK, Ireland and worldwide
- Every section is designed to be practical, reusable, and supervision-friendly.

Illustrated in full colour throughout, the text is use friendly with extensive diagrammatic presentation of key concepts, easy to read tables and step-by-step flowcharts.

How this book is different
Most CBT resources do one of two things:

They explain theory, or
They give isolated worksheets.
This Handbook does something else.

It helps you:

Think clearly
Plan realistically
Document confidently
Demonstrate good practice when it matters
Gives an overall structure for practice activities

It’s useful for:

Newly qualified therapists finding their footing
Experienced clinicians wanting better structure and want to keep up-to-date
Supervisors supporting others
Private practitioners managing risk, admin, and growth
Students of CBT who need guidance on the best books, research articles of the year.
A resource for the whole year — and beyond
Although designed around 2026, the majority of this Handbook is timeless.

The checklists, templates, session agendas, supervision tools, and clinical resources can be:

reused year after year
adapted to different client groups
incorporated into supervision, training, and audit preparation
Many therapists tell us this becomes the resource they return to when they feel stuck, stretched, or uncertain — not because they don’t know CBT, but because good practice needs structure.

Who this book for
✔ CBT therapists in private practice

✔ CBT therapists working in services

✔ BABCP / IACP / BACP-aligned practitioners

✔ Therapists who want clarity, not clutter

✔ Clinicians who value reflection as much as technique

✔ Students and trainees who need all the core CBT information in one place

In short
This Handbook won’t tell you how to be a CBT therapist.

It will help you be the CBT therapist you already are — more organised, more confident, and more supported.

If you want a single, reliable, year-long companion for clinical work, supervision, CPD, and professional life…

This is it.

The CBT Handbook 2026:

will save you time
will reduce admin
supports BABCP audit
improves clinical delivery
offers reusable templates
is “practice-ready”

£25.00
What You'll Get:
The complete Ultimate CBT Handbook 2026 as a pdf

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The Ultimate CBT Handbook 2026A practical, year-long companion for confident, organised, evidence-based practiceBeing a CBT therapist in 2026 means juggling a lot.Clients. Risk. Supervision. CPD. Notes. Audits. Neurodiversity. Teletherapy. Professional development. And somehow still having the heads...

29/12/2025

Calling All CBT Therapists - Get Ready for 2026!

Check out our new CBT book store.
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Great deals until the end of December on eBooks and Professional editions including the Ultimate CBT Handbook 2026.

29/10/2025

FLASH SALE - All Tickets £10 until 4pm today
Join us this evening for
Helping Adult Clients Deal with Parents
Wednesday, October 29 6pm-7pm
with Prof Patrick McGhee, FRSA, CBT, C Psychol

With adults living longer than ever in history, it is more common now for adults to still have live ongoing relationships with one or both parents.

This Adult-Childhood can impact of the adult's wellbeing in positive and negative ways. While most traditional psychological models assume that the experience of a relationship with parents ends in the 20s, the demographic reality is that many adults have relationships with one or more of their parents into their 40s 50s and beyond.

This webinar will present a 7-module model that you can use with clients straight away. Includes 3 case studies and all slides.

When You're Still Someone’s Child: CBT for Adult Clients Navigating Parental Relationships

03/10/2025

Join us Sat 4 Oct for our ever popular online workshop - Schema Therapy - - Attachment, Relationships and Emotional Needs | 9-11am
With Professor Patrick McGhee, BABCP, C Psychol, AFBPsS, FRSA

An introduction to the core techniques, ideas and concepts of Schema Therapy.

22/09/2025

Advanced Skills in Treating Depression
Live webinar with Prof Patrick McGhee

Date/Time: Saturday 27 September, 10:00–16:00 (UK time) — 6 CPD hours.

Tickets: £76.55 – £130.72 (tiered options on Eventbrite).

Organiser: Practical CBT.

Depression in the real world isn’t textbook. This hands-on webinar focuses on advanced CBT strategies for complex presentations—so you can sharpen formulation, cut through maintenance cycles, and help clients move faster from insight to change.

You’ll learn how to:

Deepen case formulation when symptoms are sticky or mixed (low mood + anxiety/rumination).
Refine behavioural activation for clients who “don’t activate” (values-based leverage, micro-exposures).
Manage Risk
Target cognitive processes that keep depression looping (rumination, perfectionism, self-criticism) with high-impact techniques.
Plan for relapse prevention that clients actually use.

What you will get

Copies of all slides
Client worksheets
Therapist Worksheets
Study Guide and FAQ

Who it’s for

CBT therapists, counselling/clinical psychologists, IAPT/primary-care clinicians, counsellors, and mental-health professionals seeking advanced, practical skills.

Your presenter

Prof Patrick McGhee—CBT therapist, psychologist, and UK National Teaching Fellow; lead consultant at Practical CBT.

Logistics
Format: Live online webinar (interactive).
When: Sat 27 Sept, 10:00–16:00 (UK).
CPD: 6 hours.
Tickets: £76.55 – £130.72 (see Eventbrite tiers).

Practical CBT

This online workshop will cover advanced aspects of the treatment of clients suffering from depression.

10/09/2025

Saturday, 13 September 9am-12noon online
Working with autistic clients in CBT
Prof Patrick C McGhee, FRSA

Join us this Saturday for our comprehensive introduction to adjusting CBT for Autistic Clients. Full details in the link. Student discounts available.

Topics Include:

- Adjusting CBT techniques for autistic clients-
Cognitive Restructuring
ERP
Logs /Journals
Activity Scheduling
Managing Risk

- Resources-
Therapist Reflection sheet for working with Autistic Clients
7 Key Questions to ask about managing a session with an autistic client

Professor Patrick McGhee is a CBT therapist, psychologist and UK National Teaching Fellow. Educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, he has completed CPD programmes at Harvard Business School and Ashridge. In 2017 he was a Visiting Fellow/Scholar at the universities of Cornell, Yale and MIT in the USA. He has taught, researched or practised in psychology and therapy for 30 years. His first post was a Research Fellow in Psychiatry and Psychology at St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London. He is the author of Thinking Psychologically (Palgrave) and co-editor of Accounting for Relationships (Methuen). He is an occasional columnist for the Guardian, the BBC and the Times Higher. He currently works in private practice in Greater Manchester and Lancashire and at the University of Greater Manchester. He has full accreditation from the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.

An introduction to neurodiversity and working positively with clients with a diagnosis, or potential diagnosis, of ASD.

05/09/2025

Thank you to everyone who came along to the live launch of our brand new Flutura app. Prosecco and CBT actually seem to work very well together! Have a look now and get into the app designed by CBT therapists for CBT therapists: Automally generated clinical notes | client tracking and risk management | daily check ins for client if selected | homework sheets you just select and Flutura does the rest.

Automate admin, engage clients, and free up hours every week with Flutura—the all-in-one CBT platform designed by therapists, for therapists.

04/09/2025

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT - THIS IS NOT A DRILL! Official global launch of the Flutura app takes place at the EACBT Conference in Glasgow tomorrow, Friday. 1pm in Room M2 Scottish Exhibition Centre. Lock in the launch price now. Less than the cost of one session per month.

Automate admin, engage clients, and free up hours every week with Flutura—the all-in-one CBT platform designed by therapists, for therapists.

30/08/2025

Who is going to the BABCP / EABCT Conference in Glasgow this coming week?

22/08/2025

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16/08/2025

Thanks to everyone who attended our workshop this morning on Troubleshooting CBT: The 10 Most Tricky Problems and How To Fix Them. We look forward to seeing everyone at our next workshop. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/practical-cbt-7889588215...
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