Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre

30/12/2025

Training and Certification for Clinical Excellence: CBT for OCD

Gain advanced clinical skills in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder with this expert-led online certification programme. Complete five specialised workshops and a full clinical session assessment to achieve recognised certification.

Take the next step towards clinical excellence! Enrol today in our comprehensive CBT for OCD certification programme and gain the confidence and skills to make a real difference in your clients’ lives.

To book onto the Training and Certification for Clinical Excellence: CBT for OCD course, please select your two optional workshops from the list below.

Please note: The 3 compulsory workshops are already added to the order.

https://www.octc.co.uk/product/workshops/training-and-certification-for-clinical-excellence-cbt-for-ocd-2/

Gain advanced clinical skills in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder with this expert-led online certification programme. Complete five specialised workshops and a full clinical session assessment to achieve recognised certification.

30/12/2025

Destination Unknown: Goal setting as a roadmap for successful therapy: Online Zoom Workshop | 29 January 2026

Join our practical workshop designed for therapists of all levels to master collaborative goal setting. Learn assessment tips, refine targets using Socratic questioning, tackle common challenges, and track progress effectively. Includes case examples, video role play, and interactive discussions.

Reserve your place today and take a positive step towards enhancing your confidence and effectiveness in setting and reviewing therapy goals with clients. Sign up now to supercharge your practice!

https://www.octc.co.uk/product/workshops/destination-unknown-goal-setting-as-a-roadmap-for-successful-therapy-online-zoom-workshop-29-january-2026/

Join our practical workshop designed for therapists of all levels to master collaborative goal setting. Learn assessment tips, refine targets using Socratic questioning, tackle common challenges, and track progress effectively. Includes case examples, video role play, and interactive discussions.

23/12/2025

Training and Certification for Clinical Excellence: CBT for OCD

Gain advanced clinical skills in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder with this expert-led online certification programme. Complete five specialised workshops and a full clinical session assessment to achieve recognised certification.

Take the next step towards clinical excellence! Enrol today in our comprehensive CBT for OCD certification programme and gain the confidence and skills to make a real difference in your clients’ lives.

https://www.octc.co.uk/product/workshops/training-and-certification-for-clinical-excellence-cbt-for-ocd-2/

Gain advanced clinical skills in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder with this expert-led online certification programme. Complete five specialised workshops and a full clinical session assessment to achieve recognised certification.

22/12/2025

Getting going, keeping going: Overcoming apathy, fatigue and poor motivation in CBT - Online Zoom Workshop | 28.01.2026

Explore a neuropsychological and CBT-based framework to address apathy, fatigue, and poor motivation across mental health conditions. Learn practical strategies to help patients initiate and sustain meaningful change in therapy.

Join this empowering workshop and gain practical tools to help patients overcome barriers and move forward with confidence. Book your place today!

https://www.octc.co.uk/product/workshops/overcoming-apathy-fatigue-and-poor-motivation-in-cbt-28-01-2026/

Explore a neuropsychological and CBT-based framework to address apathy, fatigue, and poor motivation across mental health conditions. Learn practical strategies to help patients initiate and sustain meaningful change in therapy.

19/12/2025

Making an Appealing Offer of Therapy to Clients with Psychosis: How to Maximise Take up – Online Zoom Workshop | 21 January 2026

Boost your confidence in offering CBTp effectively. This 1-hour workshop equips therapists with strategies to engage service users, overcome barriers, and make therapy offers that inspire hope and acceptance.

Sign up today and learn practical techniques to engage service users and increase CBTp uptake. Take the first step towards supporting recovery journeys with confidence and compassion.

Boost your confidence in offering CBTp effectively. This 1-hour workshop equips therapists with strategies to engage service users, overcome barriers, and make therapy offers that inspire hope and acceptance.

19/12/2025

Conceptualising Dissociation Across Disorders – Online Zoom Workshop | 14 January 2026

Join our postgraduate-level online workshop to deepen your understanding of dissociation and its link to trauma. Learn practical CBT strategies, explore neuropsychology, and gain confidence in recognising and managing dissociative symptoms.

Secure your place today and gain one-year access to expert-led content designed to help clinicians work effectively with trauma-related dissociation. Enhance your skills and make a real difference in your practice.

https://www.octc.co.uk/product/workshops/conceptualising-dissociation-across-disorders-zoom-workshop-presentation-14-01-2026/

Join our postgraduate-level online workshop to deepen your understanding of dissociation and its link to trauma. Learn practical CBT strategies, explore neuropsychology, and gain confidence in recognising and managing dissociative symptoms.

12/12/2025

Considering Attachment in CBT – On-Demand CPD (4 hrs 36 mins)

Explore how attachment experiences influence mental health and therapeutic relationships in CBT. This workshop helps clinicians integrate attachment theory into formulation and interventions, with a focus on perinatal challenges and engagement barriers.
Get one-year access to this expert-led training today. Strengthen your understanding of attachment in CBT and enhance your ability to deliver compassionate, effective care.

https://www.octc.co.uk/product/on-demand-workshops/considering-attachment-in-cbt/

Explore how attachment experiences influence mental health and therapeutic relationships in CBT. This workshop helps clinicians integrate attachment theory into formulation and interventions, with a focus on perinatal challenges and engagement barriers.

04/12/2025

Bipolar Disorder: Managing Mood Swings

Managing Mood Swings | CBT Strategies for Bipolar and Beyond

Rachel Manser & Helen Close

Severe mood changes can disrupt life—but you can regain balance. This CBT-based booklet explains what causes mood swings and offers practical strategies to manage highs and lows, reduce persistence of low mood, and achieve stability. Written by expert psychologists Rachel Manser and Helen Close.

Order now and start your journey to a more balanced mood today!

https://www.octc.co.uk/product/booklets/psychosis-bipolar-disorders/bipolar-disorder-managing-mood-swings/

Severe mood changes can disrupt life—but you can regain balance. This CBT-based booklet explains what causes mood swings and offers practical strategies to manage highs and lows, reduce persistence of low mood, and achieve stability. Written by expert psychologists Rachel Manser and Helen Close.

02/12/2025

Destination Unknown: Goal setting as a roadmap for successful therapy: ZOOM WORKSHOP PRESENTATION

Join us for an interactive workshop designed to help therapists set clear, collaborative goals that drive effective CBT sessions. Learn practical strategies for assessment, refining targets, and tracking progress—all backed by evidence-based practice.

📅 29th Jan 2026
📍 Online via Zoom

Registration closes @ 9am on 27th Jan 2026

This brief workshop is aimed at therapists of all levels. We will refresh your theoretical and practical understanding of how to set successful therapy goals collaboratively with clients.

You will learn:

Practical tips for assessment

Refining targets through collaborative Socratic questions

Where to start when there are no goals!

Common challenges and how to overcome them

Tracking progress

Reviewing and resetting goals in response to change

This workshop will include case examples and video role play as well as time for discussion regarding particular snags in your clinical practice.

This brief workshop is aimed at therapists of all levels. We will refresh your theoretical and practical understanding of how to set successful therapy goals collaboratively with clients.

01/12/2025

Recently Helen Kennerley and Sarah Lack welcomed students onto our PG Enhanced CBT Certificate for Psychological Trauma and Personality Development, in collaboration with Oxford Lifelong Learning at the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford.

The presenters enjoyed meeting the new cohort and external participants to introduce this specialism, beyond PTSD. Anyone interested in the course can find out more: 👉 https://www.lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/about/postgraduate-certificate-in-enhanced-cognitive-behavioural-therapy

Mental health professionals with an interest in CBT can also join selected workshops on topics within this specialism from January 2026:

📆 14.01.26: Conceptualising dissociation across disorders
👉https://tinyurl.com/mnpmjjx5

📆 24.02.26: Practice Lab-Reliving
👉https://tinyurl.com/45yb4r5n

📆 09.03.26: Trauma Focussed-CBT for Complicated PTSD and C-PTSD
👉https://tinyurl.com/yc6yna9v

📆 11.05.26: The Neuro-Psycho-Social Impact of Childhood Abuse and Neglect
👉https://tinyurl.com/evp8m5cd

📆 06.07.26: Understanding personality disorder through developmental pathways and trauma
👉https://tinyurl.com/4p56fpm8

📆 21.09.26: Practice Lab- Imagery Rescripting
👉https://tinyurl.com/yb7v8djy

📆 29.09.26: Practice Lab-Letter Writing in Trauma and Loss
👉https://tinyurl.com/2cjpskk5

20/11/2025

Victoria Bream and Kevin Meares have been discussing and preparing for their half day workshop next month. They had a really useful conversation with colleague, Dr Anne Garland, to help develop the content. The workshop will aim to help clinicians reflect on and think about OCD and GAD.

Workshop title: Separating the siblings - Tease out and work effectively with OCD/GAD overlaps

📆 Date: 09.12.25 (Registration closes 9:00am on 05.12.25)
🕤 Time: 9:30am to 1:00pm
👩‍🏫 Presenters: Dr Kevin Meares, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, and Dr Victoria Bream, Consultant Clinical Psychologist
👩‍💻 Delivery: Online via Zoom

Visit the link below for more information and to sign up:

https://www.octc.co.uk/workshops/separating-the-siblings-tease-out-and-work-effectively-with-ocd-gad-overlaps-zoom-workshop-presentation/

25/09/2025

🧠 Workshop: How to use CBT to tackle hopelessness and suicidality in men experiencing depression

📅 Date: 01.10.25
🕤 Time: 9:30am to 4:30pm (Online)
👩‍🏫 Presenter: Consultant Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist, Dr Anne Garland

When as a therapist you are confronted with a male client expressing hopeless and suicidal ideas how do you feel? What are the thoughts that run through your mind? How do you act as a result?

Su***de is the biggest killer of men in the UK under the age of 50 and male su***des have consistently accounted for three quarters of all su***des in the UK since the mid 1990’s.

Dr Anne Garland said: "As clinicians dealing with clients experiencing hopelessness and suicidality can be a daunting prospect. Research identifies specific risk factors for men experiencing feelings of hopelessness and su***de. These factors have potential to unsettle the therapist and make engagement and treatment at times more challenging."

Join this one-day workshop to:
ℹ️ Deepen your understanding of the CBT formulation of hopelessness
ℹ️ Develop knowledge and understanding of risk factors for su***de completion in men experiencing depression
ℹ️ Engage with the theory and practice of CBT interventions that target hopelessness and suicidality
ℹ️ Develop strategies for self-care when working with hopelessness and suicidality

Throughout the workshop, Dr Anne Garland will share her wealth of clinical experience of working with men experiencing hopelessness and suicidality in the context of depression. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss their own clinical cases.

This workshop is suitable for a broad range of mental health clinicians working in primary care settings, community mental health teams, Crisis Resolution Teams and CBT services.

References
Garland, A. (2016) Case Formulation in Depression in N. Tarrier and J. Johnson (Eds.) Case Formulation in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: The Treatment of Challenging and Complex Cases (2nd Edition) Routledge, Hove, East Sussex.

Morriss, R., Garland, A., Nixon, N., Boliang Guo., James, M., Kaylor-Hughes., C., Moore, R., Ramana, A., Sampson, C., Sweeney, T. and Dalgleish, T. (2016) The Efficacy and cost effectiveness of a specialist depression service versus specialist mental healthcare to manage persistent depression: a randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Psychiatry 3 (9): pp. 821-831.

Tarrier N, Taylor K, Gooding P. Cognitive-behavioural interventions to reduce su***de behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Behavior Modification. 2008 Jan;32(1):77-108. doi: 10.1177/0145445507304728. PMID: 18096973.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/census

Registration closes at 9am on 29.09.25.
👉 Secure your place now https://www.octc.co.uk/workshops/how-to-use-cbt-to-tackle-hopelessness-and-suicidality-in-men-experiencing-depression/

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