CBT for Trauma

Learn Evidence-Based CBT for Trauma and PTSD - from World-Leading Trauma Experts

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About the course

Start date
Immediate access
Length
12hrs | 12 months access
Who this course is for
For Mental Health & Health Professionals
Accreditation
12 CE / CME See all accreditation details
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Working with trauma and PTSD requires knowledge, skill, and confidence. This course helps you strengthen your ability to guide recovery with CBT and support clients through the challenges of trauma.

This training shows you how to integrate cognitive and exposure-based approaches — the most well-researched strategies in trauma treatment — into a flexible practice that meets clients where they are. It provides the tools and clinical insight to address PTSD and trauma-related distress in ways that are structured, effective, and compassionate.

Led by globally renowned trauma experts Barbara Rothbaum, co-creator of Prolonged Exposure, Debra Kaysen, an expert in Cognitive Processing Therapy, and David Tolin, bestselling author of Doing CBT, this course gives you direct guidance from leaders who shaped the field. Their teaching shows you how to use CBT approaches that help clients face avoidance, dissociation, flashbacks, and overwhelming distress.

Whether you are treating PTSD or working with trauma-related symptoms across different diagnoses, this course gives you practical ways to support recovery. 

CBT for Trauma
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Learn From the World’s Leading Trauma Experts

This course is led by world-renowned trauma clinicians:

  • Barbara Rothbaum — co-developer of Prolonged Exposure Therapy

  • David Tolin — internationally recognized CBT expert and bestselling author

  • Debra Kaysen — leading authority on Cognitive Processing Therapy

Through video lessons, therapy demonstrations, and expert interviews, you’ll see how leading clinicians approach trauma treatment in practice. You’ll learn how to integrate cognitive and exposure strategies into a practical CBT framework you can apply with clients.

Barbara Rothbaum, David Tolin, Debra Kaysen

Contributions from leading researchers, clinicians, and trainers in trauma-focused CBT and PTSD

This course also features contributions from experts who have shaped modern PTSD treatment. These include Patricia Resick, developer of Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT); Candice Monson, co-developer of Cognitive-Behavioral Conjoint Therapy for PTSD; and Terence Keane, whose work helped define how PTSD is assessed and studied.

The course draws on insights from leading CBT clinicians and researchers, including Robert Leahy and David Barlow, along with internationally recognized experts. You'll learn directly from the clinicians and researchers who developed and advanced modern PTSD treatment.

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What You'll Learn

This course gives you the clinical tools to deliver evidence-based CBT for trauma and PTSD. You’ll learn how to:

Distinguish between trauma, PTSD, and complex PTSD

  1. Use core CBT strategies for trauma, including exposure and cognitive approaches

  2. Address trauma-related symptoms such as dissociation, flashbacks, nightmares, and avoidance

  3. Identify and shift unhelpful trauma-related thoughts, emotions, and behavior patterns

  4. Manage distress, safety concerns, and crises, including suicidal ideation

  5. Apply CBT strategies in challenging sessions with steadiness and flexibility

  6. Sustain your wellbeing while working in this demanding clinical area

A Learning Experience Designed for Clinicians

This course gives you a clear framework for treating trauma with CBT, helping you support clients through distressing symptoms while guiding them toward healing. You’ll learn through:

  1. Engaging video lessons that are clinically rich and easy to absorb

  2. Demonstrations that show CBT for trauma in action

  3. Practical tools and step-by-step guidance for use in sessions

  4. Interviews that provide professional insight and inspiration

This training is ideal if you want to:

  1. Build skill and confidence treating trauma with CBT

  2. Learn directly from the developers of leading trauma treatments

  3. Respond effectively to trauma-related distress in sessions

  4. Create a safe, structured therapeutic process for recovery

There are 12 CE/CME credits available for CBT for Trauma (see Learner Notification). If you would like to request an invoice, please fill out a form here.

Barbara Rothbaum in therapy demonstration

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