Service Description

Delivered in two parts: 09:30-13:30 GMT on Monday 9 and Monday 16 June 2025. OVERVIEW The CBT Tools for Coaches programme is an online programme for coaches who want to learn how to work more effectively with clients by incorporating techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy. ​ This course is not intended to teach you how to be a therapist, but instead how to incorporate into your coaching helpful approaches and techniques that can enable change for clients, particularly those who hold rigid beliefs or behaviour patterns for example, perfectionism, people pleasing or low self-esteem. ​ 8 ICF CCE points will be awarded for attending this course. 5 for Core Competencies and 3 for Resource Development. ​ DURATION The course runs on Zoom for eight hours in total, split in two four-hour sessions one week apart. COURSE CONTENT INTRO An introduction to the cognitive and behavioural models of human behaviour and how this can help us understand rigid patterns of thinking or behaviour. The line between therapy and coaching, and how you can use these techniques safely THE COGNITIVE MODEL OF CHANGE How to truly help a client to recognise and understand their own beliefs, assumptions and behavioural patterns. How to help the client question and challenge these from different perspectives. THE BEHAVIOURAL MODEL OF CHANGE How to use behavioural interventions to identify a simple, clear path towards lasting change. Using exposure and habituation in order to make new behaviours more comfortable. Be able to help clients to break out of rigid habits and patterns such as perfectionism and people-pleasing.