Living Well with Social Anxiety: A CBT Approach for Lasting Change with Deborah Dobson

Clients with social anxiety often suffer in silence—masking their distress behind avoidance, perfectionism, or withdrawal. This essential training helps therapists move beyond surface symptoms to create lasting, meaningful change using real-life, practical CBT strategies.

Social anxiety affects many people—and often shows up in therapy disguised as something else. Even if it’s not the stated reason for seeking help, you will encounter clients struggling with social anxiety throughout your career. It may underlie issues like depression, panic attacks, or substance misuse. And while these secondary symptoms may improve through treatment, the social anxiety often lingers—unless it’s addressed directly.

In this two-part training, Dr. Deborah Dobson offers a practical, evidence-based roadmap to help your clients begin living well with social anxiety. Using a CBT framework, this webinar guides clinicians through targeted assessment, step-by-step treatment, and strategies for long-term support.

Understanding the Complexity of Social Anxiety

Social anxiety isn’t just about discomfort in social situations. It can lead to persistent avoidance, self-criticism, and missed opportunities. While individual and group CBT approaches are effective, many clients continue to struggle during times of transition or change.

Living well with social anxiety requires clients to have more than symptom relief—they need to learn how to live well with social anxiety. This involves self-awareness, consistent support, skill development, and persistence.

Living Well with Social Anxiety: Practical Applications for Daily Life

Helping clients develop confidence in their ability to manage daily challenges is a key therapeutic goal. This course emphasizes how to apply CBT in concrete, personalized ways—moving from insight to meaningful action.

• Help clients identify how thoughts, emotions, and actions are interconnected
• Guide them in applying CBT strategies to real-life situations
• Support lasting change through repetition, reinforcement, and self-compassion
• Prepare clients for setbacks and relapses, especially in high-stress periods
• Empower clients to build social connections and reduce isolation

Clients often expect quick change from short-term therapy, yet long-standing patterns—especially avoidant ones—require time and practice to shift. As therapists, we must help reframe that expectation while offering practical tools for growth.

A Trusted Voice in CBT Training

Dr. Deborah Dobson is a leader in CBT education and practice. She has developed national training programs, co-authored Evidence-Based Practice of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, and received the Canadian Psychological Association’s Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology. Her teaching blends depth, practicality, and empathy—making complex clinical work accessible and actionable.
If you work with clients who struggle to connect, speak up, or pursue meaningful goals, this course will equip you with a practical framework to support long-term change. Join us and learn how to help clients begin living well with social anxiety—not just treating symptoms, but supporting real, lasting change.

1. How to identify the core issues for your clients.
2. Help your clients take charge—identify the problem and gear up for change.
3. Implement strategies for daily life—feelings, thoughts and actions.
4. Help your clients make social connections.
5. Help your clients navigate their personal lives—family and friends.
6. Help your clients navigate their professional lives—school and work.

This training offers 6 hours of direct contact (not counting breaks or lunch). It is the participant’s responsibility to check with their individual state boards/regulatory body to verify CE requirements for their license to practice.

Attendees of the original live broadcast receive instructions on how to obtain their Certificate of Participation at the end of the course and in the “recording ready” email, which is sent 1-2 days after the live course has ended.

Attendees watching the previously recorded/on-demand version must complete a Post-Webinar Quiz with a passing grade of at least 80% to verify their attendance and receive their Certificate of Participation.

Note: The course recording is available only after the live broadcast has ended.

The Certificate of Participation includes:

• Name of participant.
• Title of training.
• Name of presenter plus their credentials.
• Number of hours of training.
• Date of training.
• Confirmation of 100% attendance at the original live broadcast OR a passing grade of at least 80% on the recorded on-demand version post-course quiz.

Get details about CE credits for Canadian and non-US international participants.

Get details about CE credits for US participants.

Please check with your regulatory body/organization to ensure that this certificate is sufficient proof for you to claim CE credits.