CBT Skills for Distressing Physical Symptoms
Dive deep into Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), revolutionize your pain management practice and significantly enhance your patient outcomes. This immersive online course is designed to equip healthcare professionals with cutting-edge skills and knowledge to provide true psychologically-informed care that gets to the real root of issues your most challenging patients face. Whether you're looking to refine your therapeutic approaches or integrate new strategies into your practice, this course will empower you to elevate your expertise and effectiveness!
Virtual: Self-Paced
Lara Desrosiers BSc. Kin, MSc. OT Reg. (Ont)
👉 ~20 hours of viewing & course work including digestable lessons, practices, and demonstrations
$697 (tax included)
Course Description
This virtual learning experience will focus on improving your ability to identify & work with pain related beliefs and distress in your rehabilitation or psychotherapy practice. An individual’s beliefs, thoughts, and emotions will influence their physiology, their experience of their symptoms and how they engage in their unique recovery.Your effectiveness as a practitioner is determined largely by your capacity to intentionally identify and address these factors. However, these are skills that are not taught in most traditional physical rehabilitation programs.
Additionally, mental health professionals aren’t always taught how to support their clients with navigating beliefs and behaviours related to physical sensations like pain.Throughout this course you will have the opportunity to learn and practice techniques from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy that will improve your therapeutic relationship with your clients, improve your capacity to help them navigate the distress related to their symptoms, and enhance your impact.
This course is open to all healthcare and wellness professionals interested in enhancing their psychologically-informed practice.
Course Objectives
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
Explain psychological processes that influence recovery in physical rehabilitation settings.
Guide patients in identifying the interactions among physical sensations, emotions, thoughts, and behaviours that contribute to distressing symptoms.
Apply CBT-informed strategies to support nervous system regulation, identify unhelpful thinking patterns, facilitate cognitive countering, and develop behavioural experiments and graded exposure hierarchies.
Apply foundational principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to support psychological flexibility in rehabilitation.
Analyze the interaction among thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and behaviours using a CBT-informed clinical framework.
Collaborate with clients to adapt intervention strategies when progress stalls or treatment plans require modification.
Meet the Facilitator
Meet Lara Desrosiers BSc. Kin, MSc. OT Reg. (Ont)
Lara Desrosiers, MScOT, OT Reg. (Ont.) is an occupational therapist with over 15 years of clinical experience in mental health and rehabilitation. Since graduating from McMaster University in 2009, she has worked extensively in community mental health, supporting individuals experiencing mental illness, trauma, addiction, persistent pain, and complex health conditions using evidence-informed occupational therapy and psychotherapeutic approaches.
Lara is the founder of Pelvic Resilience, a private practice in Ontario specializing in persistent pain, pelvic health, and psychologically informed rehabilitation. She has completed extensive post-professional training in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), Motivational Interviewing, pain neuroscience, and trauma-informed care.
Through her clinical practice and continuing education programs, Lara supports rehabilitation professionals in integrating psychologically informed and trauma informed approaches into clinical practice.
Disclosure Statement:
Financial Disclosure: Lara Desrosiers receives compensation as the developer and instructor of this course.
Non-Financial Disclosure: Lara Desrosiers has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.
Assessment & Certification
AMP Healthcare Education is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. PD activity approval ID# [number]. This distance learning-independent activity is offered at 1.975 CEUs, intermediate, OT Service Delivery and Foundational Knowledge. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA
In order to receive a course certificate and, for AOTA CEU seekers, CEUs, participants will be expected to complete all of the lessons (watch 100% of video lessons and open all E-books/PDFs) and submit all reflection practices. Participants will also be expected to complete a Knowledge Test at the end of the course with a minimum passing grade of 70% AND submit an evaluation of the overall learning experience.
Office hour attendance is optional.
Target Audience
This is an intermediate level course is designed for Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Psychologists, Psychotherapists as well as other rehabilitation and mental health providers looking to gain evidence and skills for applying psychotherapeutic skill (CBT and ACT informed approaches) to supporting individuals struggling with pain and other distressing physical symptoms.
No previous learning or expertise in the content area of CBT is required. There are no pre-requisites to taking this course.
Course Features
~18 hours of viewing (lessons, demonstrations, and practices) broken up into bite sized, digestible lessons.
Reflections, prompts & missions throughout to help you integrate and apply what you are learning.
A myriad of practice resources to download and keep for your use personally and clinically.
A demonstration library to watch these skills in action.
Access to the instructor's monthly office hours for 1 year from purchase to get the live support you need with putting these skills into practice!
Office hours take place on the first Friday of every month from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST (some exceptions for holidays).
A suggested schedule to help you move through the content in steady digestible chunks over just a few months.
Lifetime Access so that you can come back to the material at your pace to layer the skills into your practice.
30-Day Satisfaction Guarantee
We’re confident you’ll love learning with us, but we understand that sometimes plans change! That’s why we offer a 30-day guarantee for our self-paced courses.
If you decide to change your mind within 30 days of signing up, simply email us at admin@amphealthcare.ca, and we’ll gladly provide a refund, minus a 10% processing fee.
Your learning journey is important to us, and we’re here to support you every step of the way!
What our learners say
Lara Desrosiers OT Reg. (Ont.)
Occupational Therapist, Pelvic Resilience
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30-Day Satisfaction Guarantee
If you decide to change your mind within 30 days of signing up, simply email us at admin@amp-healthcare.ca, and we’ll gladly provide a refund, minus a 10% processing fee.
Your learning journey is important to us, and we’re here to support you every step of the way!