Cognitive Behavior Therapy Training & Consultation for Therapists Worldwide
Padesky.com is exclusively for Mental Health Professionals
Advocates for Collaborative, Client-Centered, Strengths-Based CBT
Psychotherapists of all modalities can learn how to help their clients make more frequent and higher quality discoveries in every therapy session.
Dialogues for Discovery offers a vision of how Socratic Dialogue can infuse all types of psychotherapy and lead to discoveries that transform client lives for the better.
FEATURES
- Detailed therapist-client dialogues illustrate Padesky’s client-centered and collaborative 4-Stage Model of Socratic Dialogue, behavioral experiments, imagery exercises, and role plays.
- Guidelines for expert use of Socratic dialogue are highlighted to help therapists avoid and navigate common therapy traps that frequently derail therapy progress.
- Traps include: clients who say, “yes, but…”, expressions of pessimism and hopelessness, avoidance, intolerance of uncertainty, challenges working with mental imagery, repetitive discussions related to inflexible beliefs, alliance ruptures, risks exacerbated by impulsive and compulsive behaviors.
- Chapters, written by international experts on each topic, include guiding principles in “Keep in Mind” boxes.
- Also included: Reader Learning Activities and Reflective Practice Worksheets to personalize and help consolidate therapist application and development of Dialogues for Discovery skills.
Our Website for the Public
MindOverMood.com is our website based on the best selling self-help book.
The Mind Over Mood website is full of information about the book, CBT, and self-help. Download sample worksheets, watch videos, listen to audios. A great resource for member of the public and clients too.
Guilt is Sometimes a Helpful Emotion.
Tips and Worksheets
from Mind Over Mood
Free to use on your websites. 3 CBT Tips and worksheets for your clients to help manage troublesome guilt!
(1) Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExOjX42vvjo. Click on Share, Embed, Embed Options. Select Show player controls and Enable privacy-enhanced mode. Copy. Then Paste the embed code where you want the YouTube video to appear. That’s it. Updates are automatically updated on your site.
(2) Copy and paste the following web address into your website where you want the YouTube video to appear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExOjX42vvjo
90 Second Review of our Strengths-Based CBT
Personal Model of Resilience
Free to use on your websites. A great introduction for your clients to the 4 Steps to Build Resilience Model.
(1) Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7dQXX74WDc. Click on Share, Embed, Embed Options. Select Show player controls and Enable privacy-enhanced mode. Copy. Then Paste the embed code where you want the YouTube video to appear. That’s it. Updates are automatically updated on your site.
(2) Copy and paste the following web address into your website where you want the YouTube video to appear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7dQXX74WDc
Homework? Not Me!
- on YouTube -
NEW 2022 Research Results
Learn when it might be necessary to address perfectionism in depression treatment
2022 Padesky Journal Article.
"Collaboration and Guided Discovery"
Primary features of Beck that remained central to his work.
Read about their early development. Conversations with Beck reveal how his own life may have influenced the inclusion and importance of “collaboration and guided discovery” in his therapy.
Padesky Appointed Visiting Professor with the School of Psychology
“I am honored to receive this opportunity to interact even more closely with students and faculty at UEL. I have focused on personal strengths over personal problems since my graduate school days. I worked closely with them to develop their Post Graduate Certificate Program in Strengths-Based Approaches in CBT.” (Christine A. Padesky, PhD)
The School of Psychology
at The University of East London (UEL)
The School (and UEL more broadly) is committed to providing opportunities for people with non-traditional backgrounds, who may be first generation in their family to go to university, and often have a rich life experience that our learning environment seeks to support and nurture into academic success.
“We really appreciate your valuable contribution to our students through previous invited talks. These have enriched the learning environment through providing direct access to your world-leading professional and practical expertise and experience.”
– Professor Ian Tucker
Psychology Department of Psychological Sciences
Award Winning Article on Clinical Corner
We are honored to receive the Most Valuable Contribution to Case Conceptualization Award from the Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy.
"This award recognizes the important contributions addressed in a recent article that help to improve the advanced skills needed for proper case conceptualization and treatment planning. The article helps to improve the knowledge, insights, and skills needed to understand clients and devise a plan for treatment."
- James C. Overholser, PhD, ABPP, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy
Collaborative Case Conceptualization
Client Knows Best
Available from CLINICAL CORNER PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Free Video
- on YouTube -
Padesky teaches therapists a simple Anxiety Equation (Mooney, 1986) that explains what causes anxiety disorders and why they persist.
For Therapists
- on YouTube -
THERAPISTS: show this video on your website so your clients can view a brief summary of what the Mind Over Mood book is about.
The Clinician's Guide to CBT Using Mind Over Mood
Myth Busting
Current Evidence Base
Clinical Examples
"Innovations and clinical tips developed during my 40 years of teaching come together here."
Creative Uses for the Clinician's Guide as a CBT TEXT
Free Webinar
This free webinar draws on lessons Christine Padesky has learned over 40 years of teaching CBT in classrooms, workshops (more than 500) and consultations. She illustrates how student engagement increases when instructors begin with rich clinical demonstrations instead of didactic lectures. Padesky overviews key features of The Clinician’s Guide most relevant to course instructors and supervisors. She models ways that INSTRUCTORS can use a variety of clinical materials drawn from her book as well as videos from her YouTube channel.
Runtime: 52:43
Integrates CBT procedures, principles, and protocols.
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So, we all need to start over from scratch. We are currently exploring other email providers and hope to have an update by March 1, 2024.
We appreciate your patience and understanding during this transition.
Email and X (formerly known as Twitter) are our only means of notifying you of our projects, publications, tools/worksheets, and video clinical tips. Please feel free to visit our YouTube channel for lots of free CBT videos and our new SHORTS series about our roadvtrip launching the Dialogues for Discovery Book.
FREE ONLINE CLINICAL TIPS
For Mental Health Professionals
Clinical Tip VIDEOs published approximately 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month. Titles include:
- Supercharge Activity Scheduling
- Is Therapy Helping? (measuring change)
- “Yes But …” Socratic Dialogue Fix
- Homework? Not Me!!
- Best Use – Clinician’s Guide. 2 TIPS
- HOW DO WE TEST THIS THOUGHT?
- Understanding Anxiety and the Anxiety Equation
Visit our Clinical Tools section, especially for therapists, researchers, and supervisors.
Looking for a Website For Your Clients and the Public?
Visit MindOverMood.com
Your clients may find it useful to visit our www.MindOverMood.com website which is designed exclusively for the public. It provides information about the book Mind Over Mood, the best selling self-help book that uses evidence-based methods, as well as CBT resources, recommendations, and a CBT therapist finder.
MindOverMood.com is our website based on the best selling self-help book.
CONSULTATION
Got Questions? Available in multiple modalities, individual and group. On-site or on-line. On-going, intermittent, or one time. Dr. Padesky provides CBT consultation on a wide variety of issues to:
- Clinicians
- Researchers
- Program administrators
- and others
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
Padesky’s CBT Book Recommendations for THERAPISTS and links for the PUBLIC. We recommend some of our favorite Cognitive Behavior Therapy books in a variety of categories. Brene Brown recommendations as well as some fun casual reading and Tech recs.
STRENGTHS-BASED CBT
Strengths-Based CBT: A four-step model to build resilience.
Read how Padesky and Mooney’s model is designed to help clients build positive qualities and how it can be used to build and strengthen personal resilience.
FREE REPRINT from Wiley.
CLINICAL TOOLS
For personal use by supervisors, researchers, instructors, and therapists.
- Worksheets you can use with clients
- Socratic Dialogue rating scale and manual
- Supervision/consultation worksheet
- Collaborative case conceptualization rating scale (CCCRS)
From the DIGITAL PADESKY STORE
Cognitive Behavior Therapy Training featuring
Christine A. Padesky, PhD
CBT Training materials
NOW in MP4 video & MP3 audio format
AVAILABLE for PURCHASE OR RENT
Available only to Mental Health Professionals or graduate students in a mental health field. Not for use by the public.
CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
- 9 MP4 VIDEO CBT clinical demonstrations available for rent or purchase (new release July 1, 2022)
- 7 MP3 AUDIO CBT workshops and presentations available for low cost purchase (new release May 2022)
COMING LATE 2024
- 14 more audio programs
- PLUS more video and audio presentations
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DIGITAL PADESKY STORE
MP4 VIDEO: CBT Clinical Demonstrations
MP3 AUDIO: CBT Workshops & Presentations
NOT FOR USE BY THE PUBLIC
Welcome to our website – Visit Often. We keep adding content!
We have provided cognitive behavior therapy training and workshops for CBT therapists worldwide since 1983 and have published www.padesky.com since 1998.
Whether you enjoy reading free articles, reviewing our past CBT workshop topics and sponsors, learning about consultation opportunities or CBT conferences, we hope to provide you with useful, timely and relevant CBT learning materials. We continue to add to our Clinical Corner section with free reprints of many of our journal articles including Strengths-Based CBT as well as new Clinical Tools and Clinical Tip videos.
We launched a complete digital platform that we call Digital Padesky. We provide CBT clinical demonstrations on MP4 video which can be purchased or rented. We also offer MP3 audio workshops for purchase. Visit Digital Padesky and see the wide range of digital programs we offer.
Also, we are pleased to offer access to a reprint of one of the best CBT PTSD treatment articles: Ehlers & Clark’s cognitive model of PTSD. A two hour MP3 audio program outlining their PTSD model is available from Digital Padesky. Please check out our book recommendations (including some fun techy stuff), and lists of our favorite CBT associations, conferences, and CBT journals.
We hope you find our site useful. Please use our contact form to let us know if you found a particular Clinical Tip, Clinical Tool, or other resource particularly helpful. We’d love to hear from you.
— Christine A. Padesky, PhD
Ways to Stay Up-To-Date
Keep Checking Our Websites. They are in continuous progress. We regularly upload information and encourage you to keep checking back.
MindOverMood.com is designed specifically for the Public and is useful for CBT clients. Visit and discover translation information, selected worksheets, CBT news of general interest, recommended readings, video and audio clips, and links to Find a Therapist.
