The flagship intensive professional and training and consultation programs include the Mind-Action Mood Universal CBT program, Foundations of CBT, Psychological First Aid Plus (PFA+), Skills for Psychological Recovery (SPR) and a series of specialized lectures and topics.

In addition, previous specialized trainings provided by master trainers at CBC include:

  • Understand and manage anxiety and avoidance
  • Build emotional resilience, flexible thinking, and effective coping.
  • Post-trauma stress support for all stakeholders
  • Manage students with avoidance, accommodation, procrastination, and disruptive behaviors,
  • Manage classroom behaviors.
  • Managing Students with Selective Mutism
  • Parenting classes to manage children and teens with anxiety
  • Coping, communication, and relationship skills
  • Identify, support and connect students during acute stress.

Our work has included parent education and skill programs, student education and skills workshops,

faculty professional development, and intensive continuing education professional training and consultation programs for school and college administrators, faculty, counseling and clinical staff to build and strengthen their CBT prevention and counseling services for adolescents and young adults.

Our work begins with an assessment to understand the institutions’ needs and goals, followed by a customized program to meet their needs. The training is tailored to each institution's goals and have ranged from 45–90 minute presentations and parent and student workshops to half-day and full-day professional development, to intensive training and consultation (two-day, three- and four-day workshops followed by ongoing consultation until goals are met).

A typical sequence may proceed as follows:

  • Needs Assessment to understand need and target audience
  • Orientation and commitment workshop with key stakeholders
    • (e.g., Deans, Provosts, faculty, superintendents, PPS directors, building principals, clinical staff, special education department, guidance/counseling staff)
  • Training Selection and Implementation:
    • Training sessions ranging from one hour-six hours
    • Half-day and full-day professional development
    • One-day to five-day workshop of CBT interventions and skills training and consultation;
      • Implementation workshop with providers ongoing weekly consultation for six months or bi-weekly consultation for one year.

Whether supporting teachers, counselors, social workers, psychologists, administrators, parents, or students across school (grades K–12) and colleges, our trainings are designed to give communities clear, usable strategies that translate directly into classrooms, counseling offices, advisory programs, and home-school/college partnerships.


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Why Schools and Colleges Choose CBC’s CITE Center Trainings

CBC’s CITE Center provides a continuum of CBT-based, skills-focused, and recovery-oriented training and consultation for schools and colleges, including the Mind, Action & Mood (M&M) Program, CBT Foundations, Psychological First Aid Plus (PFA+), Skills for Psychological Recovery, and targeted CBT topic lectures. These programs help school and campus communities build a shared language for student support, teach practical coping skills early, respond effectively to students who are struggling, and promote recovery after stress, crisis, loss, or trauma.

Our trainings are designed to give administrators, educators, faculty, counselors, student affairs teams, peer leaders, families, and student-facing staff concrete tools they can use across classrooms, counseling offices, advisory programs, residence life, academic support, student support meetings, crisis response efforts, and school-home or campus partnerships. For colleges and universities, these trainings also support student persistence, retention, campus connection, residence life response, faculty and staff preparedness, and coordinated care across counseling, student affairs, academic support, and campus life.

Build Skills Early

Programs such as Mind, Action & Mood CBT program help students develop coping skills, flexible thinking, emotional awareness and resilience, problem-solving, healthy action, and relationship skills before difficulties begin or become more entrenched.

Support Students Who Are Struggling Now

CBT-based foundations and Mind-Action-Mood CBT training equips schools and colleges to support students experiencing stress, anxiety, depression, avoidance, academic overwhelm, grief, emotion regulation difficulties, social stress, school refusal, or other mental health concerns.

Respond to Acute Stress, Crisis, and Recovery Needs

PFA+ and Skills for Psychological Recovery help schools and colleges respond to acute stress, critical incidents, loss, trauma, and the ongoing recovery needs that may follow. These trainings support stabilization, coping, connection, re-entry, postvention, and recovery planning.

Reduce Avoidance and Disengagement

CBT skills help students take practical next steps toward schoolwork, attendance, participation, relationships, and support. These tools can be especially useful for addressing procrastination, avoidance, tardiness, absenteeism, school refusal, social withdrawal, and patterns of excessive accommodation.

Create a Shared CBT Language

CBT Foundations gives school and college teams a common framework for understanding the connection between thoughts, feelings, behaviors, stress reactions, coping, and change. This shared language helps adults respond more consistently and helps students practice skills across settings.Strengthen School- and Campus-Based Care

CBC’s trainings help schools and colleges support students within the institution whenever appropriate, while also strengthening teams’ ability to identify when additional outside support or a higher level of care may be needed.

Support Staff and Administrators

When school and college communities share a skills-based framework, staff feel less helpless and more equipped. CBT-based tools give educators, clinicians, student affairs teams, and administrators concrete strategies for understanding student distress, responding consistently, and helping students move toward coping, engagement, and recovery.

Dr. Minu Thomas, CBC’s Director of the Center for Implementation and Training in Evidence-Based Therapies (CITE), is a school psychologist by training as well as a former school district administrator. In those prior roles, Dr. Thomas has implemented evidence-based therapies in schools and is passionate about supporting educators implementing evidence-based therapies in their professional and personal lives.

CBC has provided CBT trainings and consultation to the following schools, colleges and agencies: CBT CITE Trainings


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If your organization is seeking to register for CBT trainings or case consultation, please reach out via the Contact Form on this site to connect with Dr. Minu Thomas, Director of Consultation Services, to discuss availability.