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CBT for Clients
Your thoughts aren’t facts — and you can learn to work with them.
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Start the courseThe real engine, real lessons · no signupA plain-language CBT course for understanding your own thinking. Walk the cognitive model — how thoughts, feelings, actions and the body connect, and why a thought is a hypothesis, not a fact — meet the common thinking traps we all fall into, and practise a repeatable skill (the ABCDE method) for working with hard thoughts. It finishes with a thought record and a personal CBT plan you keep. Warm, normalising, and built for everyday life: you are a capable experimenter, never broken. Education, not therapy.
The course, in the order you work it
Each stage builds on the one before. Progress saves as you go, so you can stop and come back.
41lessons in 5 stages
Orientation
How the course works, what is coming, and how access works.
- Orientation
- 4 lessons
Notice & Name
The cognitive model, then the full field guide of thinking traps.
- The Cognitive Model
- Thinking Traps
- 12 lessons
The Skill
The ABCDE method, then metacognition and defusion.
- The ABCDE Method
- Watching the Watcher
- 12 lessons
Go Deeper
Underlying rules and the core beliefs beneath the automatic thoughts.
- Underneath the Thoughts
- 6 lessons
Put It Together
A built thought-record practice, a personal CBT plan, and the final check.
- Putting It Together
- Consolidation
- 7 lessons
Announced outline
- The Cognitive Model — thoughts, feelings, actions and body
- Thinking Traps — the full distortion taxonomy
- The ABCDE Method — a repeatable skill, practised
- Watching the Watcher — metacognition and defusion
- Underneath the Thoughts — rules and core beliefs
- Putting It Together — a thought record and your CBT plan
- Consolidation — master reference and final check
Why this, and why now
Understand your own thinking, one plain-language lesson at a time.
The thought, feeling, action loop, the common thinking traps, and a repeatable skill for hard thoughts. You finish with a thought record and a personal plan you keep. Free.
Who it is for
- Adults curious about how CBT works
- People working with a clinician who want to practise between sessions
What it takes off your plate
- Thoughts that feel like facts
- Knowing the theory but not how to use it on a bad day
The journey inside
- The loop
How thoughts, feelings, actions and the body connect.
- Thinking traps
Spot the common ones we all fall into.
- ABCDE
A repeatable way to work with a hard thought.
- Keep it
A thought record and a personal plan to print.
- 8 modules · 41 lessons
- Interactive exercises in every stage
- A thought-record builder you keep
Honest answers to the usual doubts
I will start later.
Start when it suits you. It is free, it saves your place, and a lesson is short.
Can I do this on my own?
You can read it at your own pace and keep the tools. If thoughts start to feel overwhelming, talk to your GP or a psychologist; they can help you use these tools.
Is it really free?
Yes. Pay what you think if it helped.
Is this therapy?
No. It is education, and it sits well alongside a GP or psychologist.
General education, not therapy or individual advice. If you are struggling, talk to your GP or a registered practitioner. In a crisis in Australia call 000 or Lifeline on 13 11 14.
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- Modules
- 8
- Lessons
- 41
- Checkpoints
- 20
- Time to complete
- about 4½ hours
Your progress path
Modules unlock in order, each lesson ends with a short consolidation, and your progress saves as you go — the dashboard shows where you are and resumes where you stopped.
- Module 1: Orientation
- Module 2: The Cognitive Model
- Module 3: Thinking Traps
- Module 4: The ABCDE Method
- Module 5: Watching the Watcher
- Module 6: Underneath the Thoughts
- Module 7: Putting It Together
- Module 8: Consolidation
What’s inside
- Orientation4 lessons
- The Cognitive Model6 lessons
- Thinking Traps6 lessons
- The ABCDE Method8 lessons
- Watching the Watcher4 lessons
- Underneath the Thoughts6 lessons
- Putting It Together4 lessons
- Consolidation3 lessons
What you will practise
- Explain how thoughts, feelings, actions, and the body form one connected loop in any moment
- Name the full family of common cognitive distortions
- Name what A (activating event), B (belief), and C (consequence) each stand for
- Define metacognition in plain, everyday language
- Tell an automatic thought apart from an underlying rule or assumption
- Explain what each of the seven columns of a thought record captures
Start with a lesson
How CBT works · 4 min — the whole course is open, no card needed.
Common questions
What does it cost?
Free · pay what you think · access-code entry open.
How long does it take?
about 4½ hours across 41 lessons, at your own pace. Progress saves as you go, so you can stop and come back.
Is this therapy?
Psychoeducation — general education, not a substitute for individual assessment or therapy. If something here brings up distress, a registered practitioner can help; if you are in crisis in Australia, call 000 or Lifeline on 13 11 14.
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Psychoeducation — general education, not a substitute for individual assessment or therapy. If something here brings up distress, a registered practitioner can help; if you are in crisis in Australia, call 000 or Lifeline on 13 11 14.