6 NBCC Credit Hours!
Trauma and PTSD: An Integrated Cognitive Approach
Mark your calendars and join us for this interactive, live online training event November 15th 2025!
6 Hour Interactive Event!
With "newer" approaches gaining popularity, many newer clinicians lack familiarity with the most evidence-based approaches for treating trauma and PTSD. Join the livestream to hear this 6 hour clinical workshop that presents a proven integrated cognitive model.
Copy of Dr. R's Trauma Toolkit!
This will give you every handout and worksheet needed (and more!) to implement the strategies and techniques discussed in this training. Print off as many copies as you like without copyright concerns to use with your clients!
Home Study Credit!
For LPCs only. The rest of you "Get" to join us live on October 4th :) But if you have an LPC you can watch this in your pajamas on your own time! Just register for the live event, and it you can't join then, you will get home study access.
Workshop Description
Cognitive and exposure-based approaches have largely been considered the “gold standard “of treatment for PTSD for many years, and even with the emergence of newer modalities, remain strongly recommended forms of treatment by the APA. Cognitive Therapy (CT), Prolonged Exposure (PE) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) all have strong evidence bases for helping individuals afflicted by trauma and PTSD find relief from symptoms.
Issues related to distorted appraisal, lack of habituation, and disjointed memories are among the areas of focus emphasized in these treatments. This three-hour virtual workshop will explore theoretical constructs of cognitive approaches, present an integrated model emphasizing commonalities in empirically supported treatments, and offer practical strategies for amelioration of symptoms.
Leave this training a more trauma-informed clinician, armed with practical, evidence-based strategies that you can implement in your setting immediately to help your clients decrease PTSD related suffering and improve their quality of life!
Learning Objectives
1. Describe symptoms of PTSD and contrast with C-PTSD
2. Discuss neurobiology of trauma and implications for working with clients
3. List 1 schema linked to PTSD that activates the threat response system
4. Identify 3 cognitive distortions that exacerbate threat-based appraisals
5. Analyze commonalities in empirically supported exposure-based approaches to treatment
6. Implement a three-phase approach to treating clients with PTSD
7. Discuss the roles cue-driven triggering, negative appraisals, and disjointed memories play in symptom maintenance
8. Identify modifiable maintenance factors to target with adaptive coping responses
9. Facilitate trauma narrative work
10. Utilize silver lining technique to facilitate acceptance, reclaim aspects of former self, and contribute to society in unique and new ways
11. Utilize nightmare rescripting to decrease/eliminate recurring nightmares
12. Silence shame, come out of hiding, and promote post-traumatic growth for whole person recovery
About Your Presenter
Jeff Riggenbach, PhD is a best-selling and award winning author who has earned a reputation as an international expert in cognitive approaches to treating personality disorders. Over the past 20 years he has developed and overseen CBT-based treatment programs for Mood disorders, anxiety disorders, addictive behavior disorders and
Personality Disorders at two different psychiatric hospitals and clinics serving over 3,000 clients at multiple levels of care. Jeff trained at the Beck Institute of Cognitive Therapy and Research in Philadelphia, is a Diplomat of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, and is a certified cognitive therapist. He has trained over 20,000 professionals worldwide including audiences in all 50 United States, The UK, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Dr. Riggenbach is the author of seven publications including his award winning The BPD Toolbox: A PracticalEvidence-Based Guide to Regulating Emotions.
Jeff is known for bridging the gap between academia, research findings, and day-to-day clinical practice, and his work has earned him the reputation for being “the practical tools guy.” His seminars on CBT, DBT, and Schema-Focused Cognitive Therapy routinely receive the highest evaluations from conference participants in terms of clinical utility as well as entertainment value.
CBT Institute of OK has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7428. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CBT Institute of OK is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Do not hesitate to contact us with any questions! We can be reached at:
CBT Institute of OK PO box 506, Jenks OK 74036 918-237-0969 Email: [email protected]
We can't wait to see you there!
