Troubleshooting CBT: The 10 Most Tricky Problems and How To Fix Them

Troubleshooting CBT

Even the best therapist can come up against issues and challenges in the delivery of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Although the textbooks and the manuals assume that clients respond to therapeutic interventions in predicatable ways, therapists working in the field know that real life is not so simple.

Join us for a review of the 10 top challenges to therapists in CBT - and how to address them.

This workshop provides a practical approach to the messy business of real world psychotherapeutic practice.

Key Questions (indicative)

1. How to fix preparation problems
2. How to fix client latecomer problems
3. How to fix unexpected endings
4. How to fix homework compliance
5. How to fix therapist imposter syndrome
6. How to fix therapist drift
7. How to fix running out of time
8. How to fix not enjoying being a therapist
9. How to fix writing up notes
10. How to fix not developing as a therapist

Comments from previous delegates who attended this workshop

• Amazing, revitalised my passion as a student
• It REALLY was practical. I learned new things to recharge my practice after 14 years of working as a therapist
• Input from others helpful - increase ideas/solutions
• Lots of practical ideas how to think about/address challenges
• Very interesting workshop with helpful advice and food for thought. I’m a newly qualified CBT therapist who found these considerations helpful for personal improvement
• This is a lonely profession! Anything that erodes this, and supports and encourages us in continuing is good. Some very practical ideas, and good to reflect…

• Allows you to be honest about how you are working, and perhaps what needs to be changed or reflected on
• Enjoyed the input from attendees and the very practical advice supplied by the faciltator. Thank you.

A Certificate of Attendance will be issued for professionals on request confirming 2 Hours CPD

Who is facilitating the event?

Professor Patrick McGhee, FRSA, 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. He has full accreditation from the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.