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Between the anguish of retelling trauma details and lengthy treatments, many of your clients with PTSD don't return.

You can let them drop out and prolong their suffering…

Or you can start using a gentle, client-centered trauma approach at the very first session… without retrigging them!

Not only will you see lower dropout rates you can even remove trauma from the brain, mind, and body in as little as 10 sessions — a timeframe that could make all the difference in your clients' lives!

In this official step-by-step course with co-developer of CPT, Kate Chard, you learn exactly how to use CPT with your next client, so you can…
  • Uncover and overturn even the most entrenched trauma memories, gently and sensitively
  • Create an individualized roadmap with a session-by-session plan for each unique client
  • Disempower negative beliefs about self-esteem, trust, safety, intimacy, and control that keep your clients from healing
  • Collaboratively work through dissociation, grief, nervous system dysregulation, and more
  • Skillfully blend neuroscience advances with the art of compassion

PLUS, you get the opportunity to meet with Kate LIVE online for a fully interactive Q&A to have your most pressing questions answered with the co-developer of one of the fastest-growing trauma treatments!

AND, as a free bonus get the Cognitive Processing Therapy Treatment Manual sent to your home — at no additional cost! Full of worksheets, assessments, and scales you can use for the rest of your career!

Register now and take the official CPT training so you can transform lives and be an outstanding trauma professional!

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) Training

A 12-Session Treatment for PTSD, Trauma & More
$1,001.93 Value
YOURS $459.99
OWN IT NOW
Plus, earn up to 12.5 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for CE credit details.
Kathleen Chard

A note from Kate Chard, co-developer of CPT….

More than 30 years ago, I worked with women who were survivors of rape. At this time, PTSD was considered a disorder of “non-recovery”. It became my mission to create a path forward to help these women get their lives back. I believed there had to be a better way to treat trauma… non-pathologizing, person-centered, and highly effective.

I didn't know then that CPT would become one of the most evidenced-based therapies of all time — that works without asking your clients to retell or relive their trauma. And, it's shown to be just as effective with depression, anxiety, suicidality, dissociation, and more.

My pioneering work with CPT has given tens of thousands of therapists a structured, yet flexible approach to help their clients overcome trauma — with ease.

Join me and become part of an elite group of CPT-trained clinicians who not only free clients from trauma for the rest of their lives, but also elevate their careers as a go-to professional.

And, don't forget… this course includes live Q&A calls with me!

Yours in healing,
Kate Chard, PhD


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Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) Training
A 12-Session Treatment for PTSD, Trauma & More
$1,001.93 Value
YOURS $459.99
OWN IT NOW
Plus, earn up to 12.5 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for CE credit details.
What You'll Learn
Kate will walk you through step-by-step exactly what you need to know to heal trauma from the first session to the last with CPT. Here's what you'll do every step of the way…

Foster the Foundation of Transformation
Learn to skillfully engage your clients, foster their commitment to change, and put them on the fast-track to healing. Set the stage for trauma processing…
  • Create customized treatment with a session-by-session plan for recovery
  • Know exactly what to do when depression, substance use, or other co-occurring problems are present
  • Connect to and engage dissociative clients so they're ready for therapy
  • Learn specific dialogues that move therapy forward with client-focused questions
Overcome Painful Thoughts and Strong Emotions
Gain the skills to navigate the intricate dance between thoughts and feelings so you can help clients confront trauma-driven memories.
  • Safely help clients connect to and feel emotions
  • Challenge long-held thought patterns and behaviors that hold clients hostage
  • Pin-point unresolved parts of trauma narratives to fast-track therapy
Target the Nervous System and the Fight-Flight-Freeze Response
Help clients develop mind-body awareness so they can create more balance and flexibility, instead of rigidity and stuckness, in their lives.
  • Target and quiet the core symptoms of PTSD like avoidance and hyperarousal
  • Compassionately bring personal aspects of trauma like culture, religion, and morality to focus for individualized care
  • Help clients let go of anger triggers and find forgiveness for themselves and others
  • Give clients a path to normalize and express hidden grief
Resolve Core Trauma Wounds
Collaboratively work with your client to dismantle damage around the five core themes of personhood that trauma disrupts. Help clients…
  • Create psychological safety that stays with them long after therapy ends
  • Help clients feel increased intimacy in all their relationships
  • Rewrite clients' troubled experiences with broken trust and betrayal trauma
  • Improve self-esteem to get clients living more fully
  • Lead clients back to a sense of healthy power and control
Create Long Term Resiliency and Recovery
Give your clients the skills to cultivate self-growth and ascend toward new life goals, help them…
  • Create meaning that brings them comfort and post-traumatic growth
  • Let go of control and take life day by day with acceptance
  • Develop a renewed sense of self that keeps them away from addiction, avoidance, and more — for good!
And, learn self-of-the-therapist strategies to process your own emotions and avoid vicarious trauma.
And get worksheets, assessments, charts, graphs and more
to use every step of the way in therapy!
Click here for course objectives and outline.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) Training
A 12-Session Treatment for PTSD, Trauma & More
$1,001.93 Value
YOURS $459.99
OWN IT NOW
Plus, earn up to 12.5 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for CE credit details.
BONUS, $181.98 Value
Absolutely FREE with your purchase!

Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD Manual
Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD Manual*
Patricia A. Resick, Candice M Monson, PhD, & Kathleen M. Chard, PhD
The culmination of more than 25 years of clinical work and research, this is the authoritative manual to implement CPT for PTSD. Written by the treatment's developers, the book includes session-by-session guidelines for implementation, complete with extensive sample dialogues and 40 reproducible client handouts. It explains the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of CPT and discusses how to adapt the approach for specific populations, such as combat veterans, sexual assault survivors, and culturally diverse clients.
*Details provided in your Online Course portal after purchase on how to receive your free physical copy of the Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD Manual.
Free CE Session
The Keys Behind How Cognitive Processing Therapy Heals PTSD
Join Kate as she debunks common myths about PTSD and shows the key cognitive processes that are impacted when you use CPT with your clients. Gain a deeper understanding of why CPT works so well and exactly what about it gives you the power to treat PTSD more effectively than ever before. Jump into new clinical research that directly impacts your practice!
Free CE Session
CPT for Suicidality: Overcoming Stuck Points and Creating Mental Flexibility
Learn three key interventions from CPT to help your clients struggling with suicidality find safety and stability. Explore common misconceptions about treating suicidal clients so you can develop greater confidence working with them and know exactly what to do in therapy.
Meet Your Expert
Kathleen Chard

Kathleen M. Chard, PhD, is a co-developer of CPT and director of the Trauma Recovery Center at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center. Serving as the VA CPT Implementation Director, Dr. Chard oversees the dissemination of CPT to mental health clinicians across the United States. She is the co-author of Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD: A Comprehensive Model (The Guilford Press, 2017) and author of CPT for Sexual Abuse Treatment Manual (2012). A sought-after speaker, Dr. Chard has personally trained over 5,000 clinicians throughout the United States on using CPT with veterans, active duty personnel, and civilians in addition to overseeing the training of tens of thousands of others via the trainers she supervises.

Click here for information about Kathleen M. Chard.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) Training
A 12-Session Treatment for PTSD, Trauma & More
$1,001.93 Value
YOURS $459.99
OWN IT NOW
Plus, earn up to 12.5 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for CE credit details.
Frequently Asked Questions

This CPT course is broken up into easy-to-follow modules that give you exactly what you need to implement this 12-session protocol confidently with all your trauma clients. You can watch these lectures at your own pace and you have the opportunity to join Dr. Chard on a 90-minute live Q&A session via zoom to get your questions answered.
The next live zoom calls are scheduled on:
October 5 & 20, 2023
All sessions start at 11 AM Central Time.
You have unlimited* access to course materials and don't forget that Kate's Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD Manual is yours to keep for free! *Access will be limited for archive recordings of the Q&A Call sessions. Details provided in your Online Course portal after purchase on how to receive your free physical copy of the Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD Manual.

This official CPT training has transformed the way tens of thousands of therapists work with their traumatized clients. CPT is one of the most creative, engaging, and dynamic trauma treatments — which is part of why it's one of the most rapidly going treatments available. CPT blends the art of therapy with structured step-by-step guidance that helps you craft sessions from start to finish. With an evidence-base of more than 20 clinical trials, you trust that you're going to be able to deliver the highest standard of care to your clients after taking this training!

You will not only learn an extraordinarily powerful therapy tool that not only works with diverse clients and clinical settings, but CPT techniques can be integrated into approaches you're already using. From this official CPT training course, you'll learn everything you need to know to start doing CPT immediately and conduct therapy safely from start to finish. With access to printable, worksheets, slides, scales, assessments and more you'll be able to integrate lots of new knowledge and training into your practice.

CPT delivers results and healing consistently, so much so that it's quickly becoming one of the most evidenced-based practices available for trauma. CPT is endorsed as a best practice by the U.S. Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense, the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, and the U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the treatment of PTSD. Some of the most notable scientifically validated clinical outcomes include:
  • Reduce distress related to memories of the trauma
  • Decrease emotional numbing and avoidance of trauma reminders
  • Improve day-to-day living by decreasing depression, anxiety, guilt, or shame
  • Understand why recovery from traumatic events is difficult and how symptoms affect daily life
Register now and give your clients the opportunity to see the life-changing results of this therapy!

Immediately! As soon as you register, you'll have on-demand and unlimited* access to all course materials.
*Access will be limited for archive recordings of the Q&A Call sessions.
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Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) Training
A 12-Session Treatment for PTSD, Trauma & More
$1,001.93 Value
YOURS $459.99
OWN IT NOW
Plus, earn up to 12.5 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for CE credit details.
NOTE: No additional discounts or coupons may be applied to this course.
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