REBT Life Coach Certification

Learn the 'give it a name' technique to interrupt repetitive negative thoughts, rooted in trauma, by naming the thought, building distance, and practicing for 30 days to rewire the brain.

Interrupt repetitive negative thinking and rumination with deep breathing, present-moment awareness, and redirecting energy into creative or physical activities, a two-to-three week practice for lasting change.

Challenge negative thoughts as they arise to prevent repetition, and use gratitude and support to dispute beliefs like 'I don't deserve a good life' or 'I'm a failure'.

Explore rational emotive behavior therapy, the original form of CBT, which links emotional distress to self-constructed thoughts and irrational beliefs. Learn how challenging these beliefs and perceptions can improve outcomes.

Explain how rational beliefs are flexible, not extreme, true, sensible, and constructive, illustrated by wanting a neighbor to like you but not requiring it, with emotional, behavioral, and stinking consequences.

Identify how irrational beliefs are rigid and demanding, such as 'my neighbor has to like me,' and examine their emotional, behavioral, and thinking consequences.

Explore common irrational thoughts in REBT, including catastrophizing, minimization, grandiosity, personalization, magical thinking, all or nothing thinking, and delusional thinking, and how belief systems drive distress and can be changed.

Explore strategies to modify limiting beliefs and assumptions, identify origins and consequences, weigh advantages and disadvantages, and generate flexible alternatives to improve daily life and goals.

Identify and modify core beliefs through six steps, from extracting automatic thoughts and specifying beliefs to testing, educating, monitoring activation, strengthening new adaptive beliefs, and reviewing childhood origins.

Learn to recognize signs of overwhelming emotions, pause, and use controlled breathing to reduce intensity. Regular practice helps these emotions diminish over time and appear less frequently.

Develop mindful awareness to separate present emotions from inner processes and practice focus shifting to choose where to focus, using breathing and reflection.

Explore the three musts that drive irrational thinking: I must do well, others must treat me well, and the world must be easy—and their effects on inflexibility, self-worth, and health.

Examine REBT musts, especially I must do well and needing approval, and the sub-beliefs driving these thoughts. Identify emotional and behavioral consequences such as depression, anxiety, procrastination, and workaholism.

Explore how the 'others must do the right thing' musts foster punishing, self-centered beliefs, criticism avoidance, and lead to anger, resentment, and aggression.

Explore the 'life must be easy' belief and its sub beliefs, showing how demands for perfect control trigger self-pity, anxiety, procrastination, drug and alcohol abuse, overeating, and gambling.

Explore ABC functional analysis to identify antecedents, behaviors, and consequences, evaluate adaptive versus destructive patterns, and use a practical worksheet to guide self-reflection and behavior change.

Learn motivational interviewing in life coaching to boost autonomy, evoke change talk, and shape concrete plans using open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening, and summarizing, guided by self-determination theory.

Explore how low self-esteem shapes thoughts and behavior, identify negative beliefs, and practice writing counterarguments to boost self-esteem and protect mental health.

Identify a skill you enjoy and are good at to reinforce competence, build relationships, raise self-esteem, practice daily gratitude, and assert boundaries including saying no.

Limit harmful habits such as alcohol to protect self-esteem and mood, and adopt a balanced diet, regular exercise, and consistent sleep to boost well-being.

Explore self-concept and beliefs through the belief discovery questionnaire, examining activating events, thoughts, and core beliefs about self, others, and the world to enable self-transformation.

Replace negative thoughts with constructive ones, label repetitive stories, and redirect attention to the present through mindfulness. Practice 4-7-8 breathing to reduce stress and anxiety over 30 days.

Explore how self-image shapes self-esteem, happiness, and proactive success in health, money, and independence, and learn to foster a positive, evolving self-image through encouragement, forgiveness, empathy, and posture.

Identify irrational beliefs as negative or overly optimistic messages shaping reactions to loss, conflict, risk-taking, rejection, and change; learn to challenge and dispute them to improve emotional health.

Explores the irrational beliefs table to examine and reframe toxic thinking, guiding clients toward rational disputes and healthier emotions through self-respect, self-esteem, and acceptance.

Examine secondary irrational beliefs, including awfulizing and pain catastrophizing, and how anxiety, frustration tolerance, procrastination, and depreciation shape mood, pain perception, and self-worth.

Flip the monkey mind by adopting expansive strategies that replace safety strategies, break the cycle of anxiety, and build resilience through new experiences that override fear.

Identify negative automatic thoughts that surface with depression, anxiety, anger, or frustration. Explore their repetitive focus on self, others, future, and world, and learn cognitive skills to balance them.

Explore six types of negative automatic thoughts linked to depression and anxiety, including overestimating the likelihood of negative events, catastrophizing, fearing emotions, intolerable discomfort, worry, and harsh self-world judgments.

Explore the 10-question negative automatic thoughts questionnaire to identify and challenge distorted beliefs, weigh evidence, consider balance over extremes, and create a new healthy thought.

Identify how negative automatic thoughts shape feelings and behavior, test these beliefs with real-life experiences, and break the downward spiral by correcting misinterpretations through CBT.

Identify negative automatic thoughts by writing them as statements, review and dispute irrational beliefs, and practice stepwise exercises—from writing to role play—to replace them.

Identify automatic thoughts and evaluate their importance with questions about the situation, belief strength, and emotion intensity, then avoid direct challenges to support ongoing cognitive evaluation.

Identify negative automatic thoughts and their distortions. Gather objective evidence for and against them, explore how these beliefs took root, and reframe to a more realistic, less distressing outlook.

Reframe negative experiences to boost mental health and lower stress. Identify feelings, revisit memories, and ask what you learned, what you can do differently, and what positives emerged.

Explore patterns of problematic thinking, including jumping to conclusions, exaggerating or minimizing, overgeneralizing, mind reading, and emotional reasoning, and reflect on how these patterns affect you.

Explore how living in the lens of fear distorts perception through the fight-or-flight loop, and learn to break the OCD and anxiety cycle by eliminating rumination, overthinking, and safety behaviors.

Distract your thoughts with memories, creative images, and mindful observation to ease distress and feel balanced. Practice daily for 30 days to see gradual relaxation and steadiness.

Explore how emotions and behavior are tightly linked, and how rewards reinforce both adaptive goals and self-destructive patterns, with Kerry's story illustrating coping gaps and consequences.

Practice a head-to-toe body scan to synchronize body and mind, focusing on sensations, breathing deeply for at least two minutes, to reduce tension and toxic emotions while improving mental health.