Specially recorded online training that enables you to obtain APT’s gold standard input in a way that is convenient to you and your colleagues, and minimizes the need for 'cover' normally associated with training. The format of the training is as follows:
Diplomas | 18 Hour Courses | 12 Hour Courses | 6 Hour Courses | 3 Hour Courses | 2 Hour Courses | 1 Hour Courses
18-Hour Course
ACT Essentials introduces Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and its focus on helping people live stable and rewarding lives. It covers values and values-based action, present-moment awareness, seeing thoughts and feelings for what they are, and accepting difficult internal experiences without excessive struggle, alongside practical skills for clinical practice.
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18-Hour Course
CBT Essentials is APT’s long-established introduction to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, designed to make this powerful evidence-based approach immediately relevant to practice. It covers the history and principles of CBT, conceptualizing cases in CBT terms, the structure of a standard CBT session and the most important CBT techniques. Throughout, the content is applied to practical examples so learners understand both what CBT is and how to use it.
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18-Hour Course
DBT Essentials introduces the key concepts, skills and techniques of Dialectical Behavior Therapy. It covers validation, problem solving and contingency management alongside the core skills of mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness and emotional regulation, making it suitable both for professionals adding DBT to their practice and those considering further specialist training.
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18-Hour Course
PTSD can profoundly affect a person’s life through intrusive memories, avoidance or emotional numbing, hyperarousal and impaired everyday functioning. This course examines effective Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-based interventions for addressing those effects across different ages. The focus is both on reducing symptoms wherever possible and on helping clients substantially improve their quality of life where some consequences of trauma cannot be completely removed.
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18-Hour Course
Based on Miller and Rollnick's latest book, this course describes an organised way of helping people recognize their problems and do something about them. It particularly addresses behavior about which a client has mixed feelings, including drinking and substance misuse, but applies to a wide range of mental and physical health issues.
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18-Hour Course
DBT-A applies the key principles and techniques of Dialectical Behavior Therapy specifically to adolescents. It covers identity, impulsivity, emotional regulation, interpersonal and family difficulties, and high-risk behaviors including suicidal behavior and non-suicidal self-injury, for professionals using DBT-informed approaches or considering developing a full DBT service.
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18-Hour Course
CFT Essentials introduces Compassion-Focused Therapy in a way that enables learners to understand it and incorporate it into their clinical repertoire. The approach particularly helps clients develop compassion towards themselves, using specific therapeutic techniques alongside an understanding of how the brain and emotional systems operate. The course covers both the theory and practical skills of CFT, making the approach accessible without requiring learners to practice exclusively as compassion-focused therapists.
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18-Hour Course
This course provides a thorough, consistent and values-led approach to Positive Behavior Support. Learners explore individual needs, analyze behavior and the function it serves, and develop personalized PBS plans designed to improve wellbeing and reduce disturbed behavior. It also addresses crisis management and continual review, providing a positive and proactive framework that supports client-centered planning while improving the environment and experience of both clients and staff.
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18-Hour Course
Another of APT's top courses, this aims to introduce you to the principles of SFT / SFBT in a way that gives you a firm grasp of them and enables you to use them in a safe and helpful way. You should become at home with the approach which is often seen as a 'breath of fresh air' both to client and professional, looking for and finding effective solutions for problems, rather than being sucked further and further into the problem itself.
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18-Hour Course
The DICES® system makes risk assessment clear, structured and person-centered. Over 6,000 professionals now use the DICES® Checklists to support their practice because they are practical prompts, not questionnaires – they help clinicians bring together key factors, apply their expertise, and create a person-centered risk formulation in line with NICE guidance.
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18-Hour Course
The RAID® course is a leading approach for tackling disturbed and challenging behavior at source: over 20,000 professionals have attended it. It is a comprehensive system which teaches professionals a philosophy and practice not only to deal with disturbed and challenging behavior when it occurs, but also to prevent it by nurturing positive behavior targetted to displace the disturbed and challenging behavior. Staff feel pleased to share a unified system and to know what they are doing and why they are doing it, while clients delight in a relentlessly positive and empowering approach.
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18-Hour Course
Depression is often referred to as "the common cold" of mental health - it is very common and we haven't always been very good at treating it. CBT's original application was with depression, NICE guidelines recommend CBT for depression and CBT is clearly one of the front-running interventions for depression. This module is designed to cover the relevant CBT techniques in a way that encourages you to use them subsequently and empowers you to help most people who are depressed.
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18-Hour Course
There is more to working with suicidality than risk assessment and management, and having mastered those, we need then to be able to help people to build lives that are much more rewarding. It is unrealistic to think we can create lives that are completely free of suffering, but perfectly realistic to help create lives that are worth suffering for. And this 3-day course strives to achieve just that. Some professionals become anxious about seeing patients who are suicidal, so what this course aims to do is to help us become relaxed and optimistic about seeing suicidal people, because we will know how to give them hope, and how to deliver as well as possible on that hope.
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18-Hour Course
The ADDRESS® Course is designed to provide delegates with (a) a proper understanding of personality disorder and (b) professional and effective ways of responding to the most difficult behaviors that people with personality disorder produce, and (c) a clear and systematic sequence of steps to consistently deliver successful treatment interventions.
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18-Hour Course
ACEs may result in changes in the deepest parts of the brain, resulting in effects which are behavioral, cognitive, biological, social and emotional. Examples include: aggressive behavior, withdrawal, poor self esteem, hostility to others, lack of interest in activities, disturbed sleep and appetite, sadness, anxiety or anger problems, and poor relationships. Although this is a disturbing list there are many children who exhibit most or all of these as a complete 'package' of problems, resistant to repeated intervention and so the cause of great frustration to professionals. The aim of this course is to repair the damage and so avoid those consequences.
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90-Hours CPD
'The APT Diploma in Psychological Therapies' provides 90 hours of training, leading to Level 4 APT Registration. Attend as an individual or we can bring the training to you for a fixed fee, to eliminate travel and expenses costs, and to ensure you get a supportive group addressing the same material.
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90-Hours CPD
This Diploma provides 90 hours of training, leading to Level 4 APT Registration. Attend as an individual or we can bring the training to you for a fixed fee, to eliminate travel and expenses costs, and to ensure you get a supportive group addressing the same material.
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90-Hours CPD
'The APT Diploma in Working with Children and Adolescents' provides 90 hours of training, leading to Level 4 APT Registration. Attend as an individual or we can bring the training to you for a fixed fee, to eliminate travel and expenses costs, and to ensure you get a supportive group addressing the same material.
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96-Hours CPD
'The APT Diploma in Working with Crisis or Risk' provides 90 hours of training, leading to Level 4 APT Registration. Attend as an individual or we can bring the training to you for a fixed fee, to eliminate travel and expenses costs, and to ensure you get a supportive group addressing the same material.
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12-Hour Course
This course is for professionals working in mental health and related fields who want to provide high-quality clinical supervision that is both effective and ethical. Clinical supervision is a crucial process, but its purpose is often misunderstood. Should you ensure the supervisee is ‘doing it right,’ act as a sounding board for clinical thinking, or something else entirely? This course clarifies the aims of clinical supervision, introduces an effective model, and provides practical tools for setting up and delivering strong supervision contracts. By the end of the course, you’ll feel confident in your ability to deliver effective supervision, whether one-to-one or in groups, ensuring it benefits both supervisees and their clients.
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12-Hour Course
Single-Session Therapy is often assumed to be second-best to longer-term therapy, but research and practice show that a well-structured single session can make a real and lasting difference, and has its own specific advantages over alternatives. This course shows clinicians how to use a single meeting to maximum effect — setting a clear focus, using evidence-based techniques, and helping patients move forward straight away. It’s a highly practical, skills-based course that restores clinicians’ sense of effectiveness and helps services reach more people, more quickly.
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12-Hour Course
Single-Session Therapy is often assumed to be second-best to longer-term therapy, but research and practice show that a well-structured single session can make a real and lasting difference, and has its own specific advantages over alternatives. This course shows clinicians how to use a single meeting to maximum effect — setting a clear focus, using evidence-based techniques, and helping patients move forward straight away. It’s a highly practical, skills-based course that restores clinicians’ sense of effectiveness and helps services reach more people, more quickly.
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12-Hour Course
This course is for managers and directors and focuses on how to manage in a way that generates good mental health and wellbeing in the workplace, and doing so in a realistic way that works well for everybody.
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6-Hour Course
APT’s Autism and Neurodiversity Awareness training provides a clear, practical introduction to autism and the wider field of neurodiversity (which includes ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, Tourette’s, and more). It is designed for professionals who may not specialise in this area but who recognize the importance of understanding neurodivergent people and working in ways that genuinely support them.
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6-Hour Course
‘Psychologically Informed Environments’ is a concept that originated in the context of working with marginalised people, especially the homeless, and, because of the importance of the key ideas, it has evolved into something that applies in a very wide range of workplaces, including hospitals, mental health facilities, schools and universities, offices, and more.
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3-Hour Course
Trauma-Informed Practice aims to ensure services are delivered in ways that avoid further harm or retraumatisation for people who have experienced trauma or adversity. Applicable across mental health, healthcare, residential care, justice, addiction and education, the course explores key principles including safety, trust, choice, collaboration and empowerment. Case examples demonstrate how individuals and organisations can systematically apply these principles and overcome barriers to implementation.
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3-Hour Course
How can we create a working environment that actively supports staff mental health? This course explores practical ways of building a positive culture, reducing stigma, and promoting wellbeing — so the workplace becomes a source of strength, not stress.
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2-Hour Course
AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude are already part of daily life for millions of people — and mental health professionals are no exception. This course shows you how to use AI well: safely, sensibly, and in ways that genuinely support your clinical work, without pretending it can replace your judgement. Led by Dr William Davies, Head of Applied Clinical Psychology at the APT, this course draws on real clinical examples to show what AI is actually good for — and where it falls short.
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2-Hour Course
Our "Preventing and Responding to Burnout" course is an intensive, short-format program designed specifically for health professionals. It delivers practical strategies and insights to help you identify, prevent, and overcome burnout, enabling you to maintain a healthy work life and continue delivering high-quality care to your patients.
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2-Hour Course
The aim of this course is to give you a thorough briefing on Trauma Informed Care and Practice in just 2 hours, to prevent further harm to the millions of people who have suffered trauma. The principles of Trauma-Informed Practice are applicable wherever you work, and they apply to your clients and to your colleagues..
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1-hour CPD
In this Assessment Module, you'll learn or re-learn how to achieve one of the fundamental starting points of effective therapy: how to conduct consistent, subjective assessment of the key factors affecting each patient. This is an essential skill in any therapeutic endeavour and is too often 'glossed over' in the often unrealistic hope that even the most distressed patients will easily tell us just what is the matter. In reality, a skilled assessment provides hope for both the patient and for us.
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1-hour CPD
In this module from the APT, we talk about the functions our patients' problems and behavior serve for them, what fallacies exist around for example 'attention-seeking behavior', and what to do once we have uncovered the functions of the behavior. We'll look at hunches and ABC Analysis, depression, behavior that has 'built-in' functionality, and the importance of verifying that there aren't underlying physical causes. Functional Analysis is a concept that has long been recognized by those working with 'challenging behavior' but in fact its relevance is much wider than that.
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1-hour CPD
In this Case Formulation Module from the APT, you'll learn how to appraise the 6 P's of case formulation: the patient's problem, pre-disposing factors, precipitating factors, perpetuating factors, positive and protective factors and of course, the plan! It enables us to form a powerful strategy to organise the information we obtain in the assessment so we can help the patient as quickly and effectively as possible. And without it, we can be very much 'stumbling in the dark.'
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1-hour CPD
This course will take you through the most critical elements of engaging your patients. Even with the best tools and training in the world, if we can't properly connect with and engage our patients, we won't be able to help them. All therapists mean to engage with their patients but many have never really been taught how to do it, as though it is achieved simply through an act of will on the part of the therapist. In fact there are clear principled strategies for achieving it, and this is what you learn here.
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1-hour CPD
‘Validation’ is a key skill for both your professional and personal life. In this module, we address the importance of validating the experiences and emotions of your patients, why it is such a good thing to do, and effective strategies for doing it well. Patients may find that some of the things they do appear to them to be 'stupid' or bizarre, and yet they rarely are; even the most unusual behaviors and emotions almost always 'make sense' when we look closely enough. It is wonderful for patients to be able to see this, and then work towards doing things - and ultimately feeling things - that work better for them.
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1-hour CPD
In this distance learning module from the APT, you learn effective strategies to help your patients gain insight into their motivations and behaviors, by asking questions about and tracking feelings about their behavior. It is a wonderfully powerful and helpful action, because once we are all clear about those motivations and goals the person is well set up to start planning how best to achieve what they want - how to head in a life direction they value.
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1-hour CPD
In this distance learning module from the APT, we'll be looking at the different elements you should include in every therapy session. This allows you to provide the same quality of service to all of your patients, every time they see you and creates a structure they can use and rely on. Providing the same quality late on a Thursday afternoon as you do early on a Tuesday morning can be demanding, and having a solid structure for the therapy session is one of the strongest pillars we have in achieving this.
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1-hour CPD
Of all the clinical skills we try and master, problem-solving is one of the most important. In this module, you'll learn the steps involved in both intuitive and formal problem-solving. Fundamentally, most patients arrive to see us with a problem which they hope we will help them solve. So while it is wonderful to learn the latest and most advanced therapeutic approaches, nothing may be as effective as having a powerful problem-solving focus, with the skill to match.
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1-hour CPD
In this distance learning module from the APT, we talk about what consultation meetings are, why they're valuable, and how to structure them for maximum benefit. If you work with extremely distressing and demanding conditions - as many mental health professionals do - or work with very specific therapeutic approaches which need close adherence to their principles, then it is virtually certain that your work will be tremendously facilitated by well organised consultation meetings. This module shows you how to achieve just that.
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1-hour CPD
In this distance learning module from the APT, we talk about the practice of differentially reinforcing adaptive behavior, so your patients are encouraged to do more of what is helping them, and less of what isn't. Highlighted in DBT but relevant and effective in virtually every form of therapy, we look at why it works so well and what pot-holes there are to avoid; effectively we focus on how to 'water the flowers and not the weeds'.
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1-hour CPD
In this module from the APT, we'll be talking about how to neutralise the extremely destructive 'second arrow,' through a principle of mindfulness: acceptance. The 'second arrow' refers to the spiral that so often occurs when for instance a person becomes depressed and then becomes frustrated that they are depressed, which makes them more distressed, which makes them more depressed and frustrated, and so on downwards. An exactly parallel effect occurs with anxiety, irritability, psychotic conditions and more.
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1-hour CPD
In this distance learning module from APT, you'll learn about evidence-based practice, practice, based evidence, and how to use them to help monitor and track the progress your patients make. We are rightly encouraged to base our practice on established evidence, and yet there isn't a protocol for every condition that every patient arrives with, so we lean heavily on 'practice-based evidence' - obtaining evidence from our practice and the patient we are working with. It is crucially important to do because without it we may be heading in the wrong direction - doing the patient more harm than good - but with it we are both encouraged and empowered.
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1-hour CPD
In this distance learning module from the APT, you'll learn strategies to help your patients consistently and effectively apply what is addressed during therapy sessions. There are 148 hours in a week and therapy maybe takes up just one of those, so what patients do in the remaining 147 is crucial, and we need to have strategies for addressing exactly that.
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1-hour CPD
In this module, we talk about how to create a motivating vision for the patient to work towards, and the steps they will take to achieve it. 'Planning' is surely one of the most misunderstood concepts in therapy: patient may say they 'plan to give up drinking' or 'plan to conquer their depression' both of which may be relevant, but they are not plans, the are simply hopes or aspirations. Planning is a frequently-enjoyable and frequently-rewarding activity tailored to achieve such hopes and aspirations, and it is this we address in this module.
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1-hour CPD
In this Distance learning module from the APT, we talk about the constructional approach, which focuses on building positive behavior that displaces behavior that works badly. So if we work with depression then maybe also to develop energetic and positive behavior, if we work with anxiety then maybe also to develop energetic and relaxed activity, if we work with 'challenging behavior' then also to encourage behavior that works well for the patient and those around them. It can sound too obvious when put so clearly, but in fact it often contrasts with the negative focus of much work. As was once famously found: 'for every paper published on happiness, around a hundred a published on depression'.
Find Out MoreIf you are a manager buying courses for your team (minimum 15), you can order with complete peace of mind. Attendees have access to the online course for 3 years, so they can revisit it if they wish, and can sit the included online exam free of charge if they want, to upgrade their APT Registration . For attendees who don’t complete for whatever reason, you can transfer the training to another staff member (valid for up to 3 years from the date the training was assigned).
The way it works is as simple as possibly can be. Supposing you purchase 100 course places, but at the end of 12 months only 80 of the people have completed the course (most can comfortably be completed in a week or so) then you can transfer 20 places to 20 new delegates.
And you can scale that up or down as you wish. One of the great things about distance learning is its easy scalability.
We think this is a breakthrough in distance learning. The online courses are engaging and relevant (“… I honestly think it is one of the best learning experiences I have had - very motivating." wrote one recent delegate.) But of course some people don’t take to distance learning for whatever reason, so why should an organisation pay for those places? Well now you don’t have to!
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