If you're a therapist who wants to help clients make meaningful progress in fewer sessions — without sacrificing depth or compassion — this training is for you. This self-paced course is designed for clinicians working with trauma, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles who want evidence-based tools they can apply right away. Whether you're in private practice, community mental health, or a clinical setting, you'll gain fresh strategies that fit seamlessly into your current approach.
Everything You Need to
Master the
Top Evidence-Based Brief Therapies — all in one affordable training
bundle.
Therapists everywhere are being asked to do more with less time.
But powerful, lasting change can happen in just a few sessions—when you have the right tools.
That's where this ALL-NEW self-paced online training program comes in…
…teaching you everything you need to start using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), and Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) right away.
Heavily researched and proven effective for treating trauma, anxiety, depression, and more, these approaches allow you to quickly address a wide range of clinical challenges…
…and do it all with the strength only evidence-based therapies can provide.
When you register, you'll join expert trainers Aprilia West, PsyD, Elliott Connie, LPC, and Lillian Gibson, PhD. These highly regarded therapists have not only mastered these techniques -- they've taught thousands of clinicians just like you exactly how to use them.
With detailed step-by-step instructions full of real-world examples, they'll make it all easy to learn and apply, turning you into a versatile therapist ready to provide individualized care for each and every client… even if you have no current experience with these treatments.
Whether you work in private practice, community health, or anywhere clients need fast relief…you need this training.
Every session can change a life. And when every session matters, the right tools matter.
This course gives you those tools.
Register now.
PS — When you register, you'll get 2 FREE bonus sessions with even more brief therapy tools!
The Ultimate Brief Therapies
Training Bundle
ACT, SFBT, and Other Fast and
Effective Approaches for Trauma, Anxiety, and MoreValued at $1,069.95
Today Only $229.99 — An Incredible Value!
Earn up to 25.75 CE Hours included in
the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Here's What You'll
Learn
At over 26 total hours of training, this
program goes far beyond a simple overview. Each section is packed with
easy-to-follow instructions on ACT, SFBT, and IPT — three
brief therapies
trusted by tens of thousands of therapists each day because they
work! With
step-by-step guidance, you'll end this course ready to use these
treatments right
away.
Acceptance and Commitment
Therapy: Activating
Psychological Flexibility for Anxiety, Trauma, and Emotional
Dysregulation
Led by internationally recognized psychologist Aprilia West, PsyD, this training will equip you to start using ACT techniques with your clients right away. Dr. West will take you all the way through the ACT model using process-based cognitive-behavioral strategies to accelerate psychological flexibility and improve client outcomes. This best-selling training is sure to enhance your ability to work with chronic stress, anxiety and depression, emotional reactivity and emotional dysregulation, unprocessed trauma/PTSD, and more.
Your quick outline for this ACT training:
The ACT Model: Psychological Flexibility
- The problem of avoidance: the Inflexahex model
- How ACT is different from other approaches
- Evidence and research
Components of the ACT Model: Present Moment Awareness
- The power of anchoring in the present
- Common obstacles to present moment awareness
- Metaphor: Your experience of a musical band
- Experientials to contact the "here and now"
Acceptance
- What acceptance is not
- Obstacles to acceptance
- Metaphor for acceptance: The blow-up ball in a swimming pool
- Acceptance experientials
Defusion
- Benefits of holding thoughts lightly
- The power of language
- Metaphor for defusion
- Defusion experiential
Values
- Values vs. scripts or goals
- Obstacles to clarifying values
- Values clarification
- Values-based action plan
- Metaphors for clarifying values
Committed Action
- Benefits of values-based moves
- Pivoting from default to intention
- Using functional inquiry to stay on track
- Obstacles to committed action
- Committed action metaphor and experiential
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy:
An Evidence-Based
Approach to Create Rapid, Sustainable Change with Any Client
Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is an evidence-based approach to therapy that helps clients become "unstuck" by drawing on their already existing resources and personal strengths. Through easy to learn, simple interventions and principles, SFBT offers you a whole new perspective on what therapy can do. Join Elliott Connie, SFBT trainer, author, and psychotherapist, as he walks you through the philosophical shift from problem to solution-oriented therapy that will completely change your practice with simple strategies that will transform your clients' relationship with their perceived problems.
Your quick outline for this SFBT
training:
What Distinguishes SFBT From Traditional Approaches
- Key tenets, theory, and evidence behind SFBT
- How important is the problem?
- "The details drive the change"
- The absence of symptomology v. the presence of what clients most desire
Intentional Questions: The Strength Behind SFBT
- Reframe questions as invitations
- Core SFBT questions:
- Desired Outcome: Discover what clients want to be different in their lives
- Resource Talk: Activate the client's strengths
- Preferred Future: Elicit a detailed description of what the client wants
- Scaling: Measure progress toward the desired outcomes
- Coping Questions: Find positive resources even in difficult situations
Inside a SFBT Session: Innovative, Practical Strategies from Start to Finish
- Opening the Session
- The Core of the Session
- Working with one problem at a time
- Strategies to build momentum toward the client's hoped-for future
- Tolerating silence and using it as a valuable tool
- What to do when the client is focused on problems and symptoms
- Techniques to keep the client engaged and the session meaningful
- Closing the Session
- Video case examples: See each step in action!
SFBT Across Settings and Populations
- Group therapy
- Children, adolescents, and families
- Couples
- Multicultural factors
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
(IPT) for Trauma,
Anxiety, and Depression: A Brief Relational Approach to Healing and Personal
Growth
Heavily research-supported, endorsed by major mental health organizations, and used by thousands of therapists around the globe, IPT is proven to achieve significant results and symptom reduction in just 12 to 16 weeks. In short, it's a must-have tool for any therapist looking to give clients fast, effective relief from depression, anxiety, trauma, and more. In Part 3 of this training, you'll learn how to bring IPT into your practice with distinguished expert Dr. Lillian Gibson.
Your quick outline for this IPT training:
Reducing Symptomology by Improving Clients' Relationship Skills
- The impact of early attachment experiences and family dynamics
- Key features of IPT and evidence-base
- Problem areas targeted: role disputes, role transitions, interpersonal deficits, and grief
- When to use IPT techniques in groups or individual work
Assessment and Treatment Planning
- Assessing interpersonal functioning and identifying relevant problem areas
- Conducting the interpersonal inventory with clients
- Communication styles, attachment patterns, and role expectations
- When comorbid issues are present
Getting Started with IPT: How to Conduct the Initial Phase
- Psychoeducation
- Completing the interpersonal inventory
- Formulating a treatment strategy with clients
IPT Techniques and Strategies to Jumpstart Interpersonal Change
- Identify problematic communication patterns
- Clarify values, priorities, and options
- Role play exercises
- Grief, role disputes, role transitions, and interpersonal deficits
IPT as an Adjunctive Treatment for Trauma
- Addressing trauma in the context of interpersonal relationships
- Interpersonal assessment in clients with trauma histories
- Coping strategies to manage triggers
- Targeting interpersonal problems that have arisen as a result of trauma
IPT for Anxiety and Depression
- Interpersonal factors in the development of anxiety and depression
- The role of social support, attachment, and communication patterns
- Interventions for resolving conflicts and misunderstandings
- IPT as an adjunctive treatment for anxiety
The Ultimate Brief
Therapies Training Bundle
ACT, SFBT, and Other Fast and Effective Approaches for Trauma, Anxiety, and More
$1,069.95 Value — Today Only $229.99!
ACT, SFBT, and Other Fast and Effective Approaches for Trauma, Anxiety, and More
$1,069.95 Value — Today Only $229.99!
Earn up to 25.75 CE Hours included
in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Here's Why People Say They
Love This Course!
"SO GOOD. I cannot wait to
share these techniques with my clients."
"Very accessible for
practitioners at any level."
"I loved this
training…building from outline to phases of treatment to termination and
techniques."
"Great training! I feel
like I can put these interventions to use in my practice immediately."
"I was surprised by how
much
content I could use in my practice. Makes me want to drop all of my other
modalities."
"The best professional
development training that I have taken!!"
Your Expert
Trainers
Aprilia West, PsyD, MT, PCC
Aprilia West, PsyD, MT, PCC, is an
internationally recognized psychologist, coach, trainer, author, and expert in the
field of psychotherapy and coaching. Dr. West has trained thousands of therapists
and coaches in applying contextual behavioral science worldwide. She is the former
president of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS), Southern
California chapter, part of the international ACT organization with over 8,000
members worldwide. In addition, Dr. West is known for developing the construct of
emotional efficacy, an integration of emotional intelligence, psychological
flexibility, and resilience. She also developed and piloted an evidence-based
protocol, Emotion Efficacy Therapy (EET), which combines novel emotion
psychoeducation with components of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT),
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and exposure therapy. Dr. West is the author of
ACT
for Your Best Life (2023), What You Feel Is Not All There Is
(2021), coauthor of
Acceptance and Commitment Coaching in the Workplace (Springer 2021) and
The
Clinician's Guide to Emotion Efficacy Therapy (2016).
Click here for information about Aprilia West
Click here for information about Aprilia West
Elliott Connie, MA, LPC
Elliott Connie, MA, LPC, is a Texas-based
psychotherapist in private practice and the founder/director of The Solution-Focused
University, an online learning community that trains and provides resources for
professionals who want to master the Solution-Focused approach in their work. Over
the course of his 15-year clinical career, Elliott has successfully worked with
thousands of individuals, couples, and families using a solution-focused model to
help them achieve their desired outcomes. He is an experienced speaker who has
gained international recognition for training hundreds of practitioners throughout
the United States, Australia, Europe, and Asia on the solution-focused treatment
model. Elliott is the author/co-author of four books, including Solution-Focused
Brief Therapy with Clients Managing Trauma (Oxford University Press, 2018),
The
Solution focused Marriage: 5 Simple Habits That Will Bring Out the Best in Your
Relationship (The Connie Institute, 2012), Solution Building in Couples
Therapy
(Springer, 2012), and The Art of Solution Focused Therapy (Springer,
2009).
Click here for information about Elliott Connie
Click here for information about Elliott Connie
Lillian Gibson, PhD
Lillian Gibson, PhD, is a licensed
clinical psychologist with over a decade of experience working with clients facing
trauma, insomnia, nightmares, race-based traumas, minority stress, anxiety,
depression, and chronic medical conditions. In addition to her clinical duties, she
serves as a consultant to other licensed clinicians, and supervises psychology and
medical residents on "gold star" evidence-based psychotherapy treatments. Dr.
Gibson is a highly recommended speaker, consultant, and clinician who is frequently
engaged by non-profit agencies, community-based programs, and mental health agencies
to inform and train their staff. Experienced in a variety of settings, including
inpatient mental health centers, outpatient behavioral care services, and primary
care settings, Dr. Gibson's professional footprints include places such as Johns
Hopkins Medicine and the Quality Education for Minorities Network. Dr. Gibson has
also conducted international research in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Click here for information about Lillian Gibson
Click here for information about Lillian Gibson
Get 2 FREE Bonus Trainings When You Register (a $319.98 value)
Written Exposure Therapy (WET)
for PTSD: A Brief Evidence-Based Treatment for Reduced Dropouts and Improved
Outcomes in Fewer Sessions
Brian P. Marx, PhD | Click here for information about Brian P. Marx
Denise M. Sloan, PhD | Click here for information about Denise M. Sloan
Learn an evidence-based brief PTSD treatment approach that produces clinically significant reductions in PTSD symptoms in as few as five treatment sessions by having clients write about the trauma. It's efficient, effective, associated with low treatment dropout rates, and has been found to be equally effective as more time-intensive therapies — all without requiring clients to verbalize the details of their traumas again and again. Led by Dr. Denise Sloan and Dr. Brian Marx, developers of the Written Exposure Therapy protocol.
Brian P. Marx, PhD | Click here for information about Brian P. Marx
Denise M. Sloan, PhD | Click here for information about Denise M. Sloan
Learn an evidence-based brief PTSD treatment approach that produces clinically significant reductions in PTSD symptoms in as few as five treatment sessions by having clients write about the trauma. It's efficient, effective, associated with low treatment dropout rates, and has been found to be equally effective as more time-intensive therapies — all without requiring clients to verbalize the details of their traumas again and again. Led by Dr. Denise Sloan and Dr. Brian Marx, developers of the Written Exposure Therapy protocol.
Motivational Interviewing: End
the Tug of War and Create Lasting Change from Within
Melinda Marasch, LCSW, MINT | Click here for information about Melinda Marasch
Too often, sessions seem like a tug of war. Back and forth between the reasons to change…and the reasons not to. It's easy to start feeling stuck or like you need to "win." But the harder you push or pull, the greater the discord/resistance. You need a better way to communicate with ambivalent clients if you want to accelerate change. Motivational Interviewing is that way. In this session, MI expert Melinda Marasch, LCSW, will show you how the evidence-based MI process works and ways you can apply it to make those tough conversations more productive, end the tug of war, and maximize opportunities for lasting change from within.
Melinda Marasch, LCSW, MINT | Click here for information about Melinda Marasch
Too often, sessions seem like a tug of war. Back and forth between the reasons to change…and the reasons not to. It's easy to start feeling stuck or like you need to "win." But the harder you push or pull, the greater the discord/resistance. You need a better way to communicate with ambivalent clients if you want to accelerate change. Motivational Interviewing is that way. In this session, MI expert Melinda Marasch, LCSW, will show you how the evidence-based MI process works and ways you can apply it to make those tough conversations more productive, end the tug of war, and maximize opportunities for lasting change from within.
Frequently Asked
Questions
If you're a therapist who wants to help clients make meaningful progress in fewer sessions — without sacrificing depth or compassion — this training is for you. This self-paced course is designed for clinicians working with trauma, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles who want evidence-based tools they can apply right away. Whether you're in private practice, community mental health, or a clinical setting, you'll gain fresh strategies that fit seamlessly into your current approach.
Not at all. This course was built to guide you step-by-step through each approach—from the core principles to real-world application. You'll learn the foundations of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), and Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) in a way that's accessible, engaging, and practical, even if you're completely new to them.
Yes! Even seasoned therapists tell us they walk away with new insights, interventions, and ways to integrate these methods for faster, more sustainable client change. You'll deepen your skill set, sharpen your formulations, and discover fresh ways to combine brief therapy models — so you can adapt effectively to a wide range of clients and clinical issues.
Absolutely. This program is 100% self-paced and available on demand. You can start, pause, and revisit the material anytime, from any device. You'll have ongoing access to all modules, downloadable resources, and demonstrations—so you can learn when it fits your schedule and revisit techniques whenever you need them.
The Next Steps in Advancing Your Practice
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Instantly collaborate with other professionals through interactive
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focused on working with clients with personality disorders.
Complete your online CE tests and earn up to 25.75 CE hours!
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The Ultimate Brief Therapies
Training Bundle
ACT, SFBT, and Other Fast and
Effective Approaches for Trauma, Anxiety, and MoreValued at $1,069.95
Today Only $229.99 — An Incredible Value!
Earn up to 25.75 CE Hours included in
the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
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