6 NBCC Credit Hours!
Schema-Focused CBT:
Advanced Strategies for Creating Change in Your Most Change-Resistant Clients!
Mark your calendars and join us for this interactive, live online training event September 20th 2025!
6 Hour Interactive Event!
Join the livestream to hear this training that integrates traditional evidence-based CBT with schema-focused principles to help even your most resistant clients get "unstuck" from lifelong destructive patterns.
Consultation with Dr. R!
Be one of the first 10 people to register and get a follow-up 1: 1 zoom consult with Dr. R to solidify your learning and apply the strategies to 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
Most practitioners are familiar with standard CBT, which offers a variety of helpful tools and techniques for treating a number of what used to be classified as “axis I” disorders. These protocols manage symptoms well and sufficiently treat many individuals with mild to moderate impairment.
However few clinicians are well versed in doing the deeper schema level work that is necessary for treating individuals with more challenging conditions in a way that prevents relapse and creates changes that last.
Schema-focused approaches augment standard CBT protocols with deeper level work to prevent relapse by emphasizing identifying and changing lifelong patterns. SFCBT also utilizes the therapeutic relationship in a powerful way to leverage deeper level change, making it particularly well suited for complex, resistant clients with entrenched, chronic psychological challenges. In this way, it offers a refreshing hybrid between dynamic, insight-oriented approaches and evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy.
Join internationally known and three-time bestselling author Jeff Riggenbach , PHD in this highly engaging live stream and learn new tools for treating your most challenging client symptoms sets including:
Learning Objectives
- Describe the Relationship between SFCT, DBT, ACT Schema Focused therapy, and the others.
- Socialize clients to the model in a way that fosters engagement and decreases dropout rates
- Analyze 18 maladaptive schemas and the role they play in driving challenging behaviour
- List the 3 stages of schema change and indications for appropriate strategies at each
- Leverage the therapeutic relationship to promote recovery
- Utilize behavioural pattern-breaking to reverse long-standing cycles of destructive behaviour
- Identify 3 processes reinforcing underlying schemas driving dysfunctional coping
- Differentiate between “top down” and “bottom up” interventions and indications for each
- Implement conceptualization based treatment to address enduring themes
- 10. Utilize schema-based journaling to amplify adaptive change
- 11. Incorporate Schema mode work into your individual and group sessions 12. Augment standard CBT protocols with deeper level work to prevent relapse
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!
