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CBT Training Course

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Training: CBT Essentials.

CBT Essentials is a 3-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy training for professionals working in mental health and related fields in Canada. CBT Essentials is the benchmark for professionals who want an excellent introduction to CBT which will enable them to understand it and use it straight away. It is also the gateway to further CBT training including APT’s CBT Masterclass.

It gives you APT’s level one Accreditation in CBT, with the option of sitting in exam to obtain level two (free of charge) and from there through more study right up to APT's CBT Masterclass and level four Accreditation.

Founded in 1981, APT has grown to become a trusted source of gold-standard training, from introductory through to masterclass level. Over 150,000 mental health professionals have attended APT’s post-qualification courses, commissioned by numerous health authorities and healthcare providers

APT’s CBT training uniquely combines built-in APT Accreditation with automatic access to our renowned post-course resources to help you support your clients. It is available for both teams and individuals, face-to-face or online, and can also count towards (a) the Extended Training in CBT course, (b) The APT Diploma in Psychological Therapies or (c) The APT Diploma in Working with common mental health diagnoses.

Booking Options

Executive Summary:

APT was one of the earliest organizations to teach CBT, starting in 1982, three years after the seminal book Cognitive Therapy of Depression was written by Beck, Rush, Shaw and Emery. Since that point, this course has constantly been one of the most attended of any of APT's courses. Constantly developing, this course was one of the first to systematically teach '5-factor CBT', also advocated by Padesky in the 'hot cross bun' and Linehan in DBT. Including not just emotions, behavior and cognitions, the 5-factor approach adds biological factors and social/environmental factors into the mix, without which many conditions would not be addressed adequately.
 

Who should attend this CBT course?

People who attend this course normally fall into one of two categories:

1. Professionals who see patients in 1:1 treatment settings, have a significant degree of clinical skill, and wish to add CBT techniques to their repertoire.

2. 'Whole teams' (either in inpatient or community settings) seeking to develop a common approach to CBT or to their clinical work.

The professional affiliations of people attending this course include: mental health/psychiatric nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, clinical psychologists, educational psychologists, psychiatrists, probation officers and others working in a variety of settings including: Adult Mental Health, Children and Adolescents, Older People, Substance Misuse, Forensic, Learning Disability, and Brain Injury.

The CBT Essentials course covers:

CBT Essentials consists of the three days described below.


Day 1 (Module One)


Day 2 (Modules Two & Three)


Day 3 (Modules Four & Five)


What the CBT Essentials course will do for you:

What you receive as a result of attending the training:

You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course and access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT accreditation to Level 2.

Your registration lasts indefinitely, whilst your accreditation lasts for 3 years from the date of completion and is renewable.

Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 150,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.


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Option 1: Online Anytime course:

A highly engaging pre-recorded course you can start any time you like – right now if you want. Price: $440 CAD per person. The fee covers: 3 years access to the course, certification, registration, and Level 2 APT Accreditation by completing the course and inbuilt exam.

 Guarantee

If you don’t complete the course for some reason, then you can simply ask for your money back!

If you are a manager ordering multiple courses, and some of your team don’t complete them, you can ask us to transfer those courses to others in your team!

(Valid for up to 3 years from the date the training was assigned.)

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Option 2: Online Live course:

A live and interactive event hosted online via Zoom  (and you don’t even have to have your own Zoom account). Price: $795 CAD per person. The fee covers: tuition, PDF workbook, certification, registration, and accreditation at APT’s Level 1, with option to sit the online exam (free-of-charge and in your own time) to upgrade to Level 2.

Available dates (courses run from 10am-4pm Eastern Time, unless otherwise stated):

   5-7 May 2026

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Option 3: Exclusive course for your organization:

We can deliver the course ‘online live’ (via Zoom or Teams) exclusively to you and your organization, for a group of up to 15 people. Price: $7,990 CAD, extra delegates: $525 CAD per person. Or, if you or a colleague are a senior mental health professional, you can apply to become an APT Tutor and, if your application is accepted, deliver the training in-house at half the standard cost (either face-to-face or live online).

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APT Accreditation

As a bona fide APT event, this course automatically has accreditation from The Association for Psychological Therapies. This means (i) that it contains the right amount of relevant information for its duration, and (ii) the information is presented in an engaging way, and in a way that will make it likely to be used after the course. APT verifies the accreditation by publishing the delegates' average ratings of relevance and presentation-quality for all its accredited courses. The accreditation is given value by over 150,000 professionals having attended APT courses.

CBT Courses and Resources


What is CBT?  ❯


How to become a CBT Therapist  ❯


CBT Training Courses  ❯


CBT Essentials  ❯


Extended Training in CBT  ❯


Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy  ❯


10-minute CBT: The BITS™ Course  ❯


CBT for Panic  ❯


CBT for OCD  ❯


CBT Plus, for Anger and Violence  ❯


What works with Alcohol & Substance Misuse  ❯


Trauma-Focused CBT, for all ages  ❯


The ADDRESS® for working with Personality Disorder  ❯


CBT Plus, for Suicide Prevention  ❯


CBT Plus, with Depression  ❯


CBT Plus, with Anxiety  ❯


CBT for Non-Suicidal Self-Injury  ❯


CBT for Working with Offenders  ❯


APT's Accreditation for Practitioners  ❯

Feedback Ratings

Feedback Ratings.

We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last ten runnings of this course.*

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*If a course has less than ten running the percentage will be taken from the amount of times the course has ran.

CBT Essentials Written Feedback

Reviews.

APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the CBT Essentials course has received.

“Without a doubt, the most relevant, inspirational and achievable course I have done since being in the team. I feel enthusiastic about applying the skills and theory to my practice. The course was superbly delivered by a very knowledgeable, competent tutor who was down to earth and humorous in appropriate places. Excellent!"

"I've had a number of inputs on CBT - this one clearly the best yet!!"

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