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Let's Talk About CBT
Let's Talk About CBT is a podcast about cognitive behavioural therapy: what it is, what it's not and how it can be useful. Listen to experts in the field and people who have experienced CBT for themselves. A mix of interviews, myth-busting and CBT jargon explained, this accessible podcast is brough...
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Let's Talk About…Access to Mental Health Services for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (World Mental Health Day 2025)
It’s World Mental Health Day 2025, and this year's theme is 'access to services - mental health in catastrophes and emergencies'. The theme highlights...
Let’s talk about…Low Intensity CBT
Ever heard of low Intensity CBT and wondered what it was all about? Or what it would be like to receive it? In this episode of Let’s Talk about CBT, H...
Let’s talk about…the Mental Health Jedi
In this episode, Helen Macdonald speaks with Chris Frederick- advocate, suicide survivor, founder of Project Soul Stride, and self-described "Mental H...
Let’s Talk About…Digital CBT and Cultural Connection
In this latest episode of Let’s Talk About CBT, host Helen Macdonald is joined by two international guests- Tafi Mazikana and Sherrie Steyn who share...
Let’s talk about…. mental fitness in sports
In this episode of Let’s Talk About CBT, Helen Macdonald speaks with Phil Cooper, mental health nurse and co-founder of the charity State of Mind Spor...
Let’s Talk about CBT: A solid return on investment
In this special episode celebrating World CBT Day 2025, we explore this year’s theme: CBT: A Solid Return on Investment. Host Helen Macdonald, Senior...
Let’s Talk About…CBT for Gambling Addiction
In this episode of Let’s Talk About CBT, Helen Macdonald speaks with James from the charity Gambling with Lives about the serious impact of gambling a...
Let's talk about…how CBT can help manage living with long term health conditions and trauma
In this episode, Helen talks with Lizzie, a beauty content creator and disability advocate, and Bex, a CBT therapist, about Lizzie’s journey navigatin...
Let’s talk about…how CBT can help with living well with pain
In this episode of Let’s Talk About CBT, Helen Macdonald speaks with Pete Moore, author and creator of The Pain Toolkit, about his journey of living w...
Let’s talk about…how getting active, being in nature and having CBT can help after you’ve had a baby
In this episode of Let’s Talk About CBT, host Helen Macdonald speaks with Sarah, Sally, and Leanne about Sarah’s experience of having Cognitive Behavi...
Let's talk about... going to CBT for the first time
We’re back! Let’s Talk about CBT has been on hiatus for a little while but now it is back with a brand-new host Helen Macdonald, the Senior Clinical A...
How has CBT changed over the last 50 years?
The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, the lead organisation for cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in the UK and Ire...
Bonus Episode: What is SlowMo? And how can it help with paranoid thoughts?
In this bonus episode of Let's Talk About CBT, hear Dr Lucy Maddox interview Dr Tom Ward and Angie about SlowMo: digitally supported face-to-face CBT...
Evidence Based Parenting Training: What Is It and What's It Got To Do With CBT?
Children don't come with a manual, and parenting can be hard. What is evidence-based parenting training and how can it help? Dr Lucy Maddox interviews...
CBT for Depression
In this episode Dr Lucy Maddox speaks to Sharon and Dr Anne Garland, about CBT for depression. Hear how Sharon describes it, and how both group and in...
CBT for Anxiety: How are Anxious Thoughts Like the Circle Line?
Anxiety is one of the most common mental health problems, but there's a good evidence-base for CBT as a helpful intervention. In this podcast, Dr Lucy...
What is cognitive behavioural couples therapy?
We tend to think about therapy as something that is helpful for individuals, but what about when you want to address problems which affect you and a p...
Digital CBT
What is digital CBT? How does therapy work over the internet? Can it ever be as good as face-to-face? Dr Lucy Maddox hears from Dr Graham Thew and Fio...
Let's Talk About CBT Survey
Let's Talk About CBT Survey
Have you got 5 minutes to complete a quick survey about your experience of listening? It would really help us to kno...
Loneliness for Children & Young People During the Pandemic
What does existing research tell us about the possible impact of the pandemic on children and young people's mental health? Dr Lucy Maddox sp...
Helping teenagers do more of what matters to them
How does doing more of what matters help teenagers with low mood and depression? And what can we all learn from this, particularly at the moment? Prof...
Tolerating uncertainty: what helps?
We're all living through uncertain times at the moment. What does research from CBT tell us about what tends to help people tolerate uncertainty? Dr L...
CBT for Bipolar Disorder
Note: This episode was recorded before government guidance on restricting travel due to coronavirus.
We all experience ups and downs in mood, bu...
Coping with anxiety about coronavirus
This is an understandably stressful time and it's normal to feel worried. What can we learn from CBT for health anxiety that might help us with feelin...
CBT for Self-Harm
Imagine being asked to give up the most effective strategy you have for coping with stressful situations... this is often what it can feel like to peo...
CBT for Clinical Perfectionism
Striving for achievement has got to be a good thing, right? But what if it starts to get in the way of our happiness? What if the standards we hold ou...
CBT for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
How can a talking therapy help with a problem that feels as physical as chronic fatigue syndrome?
Ben Adams talks to Dr Lucy Maddox about overc...
CBT for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
How do you talk about something in therapy when all you want to do is avoid thinking about it? And why might it help to be able to tackle it?
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CBT for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
What are 'intrusive thoughts' (we all have them) and what has CBT for OCD got to do with a polar bear? People sometimes talk about being "a little bit...
CBT for Hoarding
Maggie's flat was so full that the council threatened to clear it out themselves. CBT helped her understand the reasons behind her hoarding disorder a...
CBT for Psychosis
Hearing voices is much more common than used to be thought, but what if they're cruel voices that seem to try to stop you from living your life?
CBT for Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Most of us have some worries about how we look, but what if those worries get so bad they stop you being able to go out?
Body Dysmorphi...
Coping with stress and anxiety: a spiritual and cultural perspective
Ever wondered how CBT fits with ideas about health and wellbeing from more spiritual perspectives?
A BABCP outreach event held in a local Glasg...
Mindfulness Based Therapies
How does mindfulness fit with CBT?
And is it all about sitting about on a yoga mat? (spoiler - it's not).
This episode delves into Mindful...
Schema Therapy
How do we develop patterns of thinking and behaving from our earlier experiences?
What is Schema Focussed Therapy and how does it fit in the wid...
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
What is Acceptance & Commitment Therapy and what's it like to have it?
How can we live a life in line with our most important values?
Dr J...
Compassion Focussed Therapy
Couldn't we all be a little kinder to ourselves?
Find out how self-compassion can influence us and hear about how compassion focussed therapy he...
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
How do we live with impossible dilemmas?
How can someone stop self harming when it's the only way they know of coping?
What is DBT and how...
Let's Talk About CBT
What is cognitive behavioural therapy?
What's it like to have it?
How can it be useful?
Is it just 'positive thinking'? (spoiler - i...