Cognitive Behavioral Precision Therapy

A groundbreaking framework for delivering the world’s most effective therapy—personalized to each client.

If you are a therapist who treats clients with mood disorders, you know that effective treatment isn’t one-size-fits-all. Some clients may be struggling with trauma or difficult life experiences that worsen their symptoms, while others may face relationship issues that negatively affect their mood and behavior. In addition, every client copes with stress differently. What you need is a flexible, tailored approach to treating these clients—one that focuses on their individual needs.

Cognitive behavioral precision therapy (CBPT) is a comprehensive, transdiagnostic, and personalized framework to enhance the world’s most efficient therapy. In this professional guide, you will find tools to assess your individual clients’ needs by focusing on environmental stressors—such as social contexts and life factors—as well as the maladaptive coping mechanisms that drive emotional disorders. Most importantly, you will learn to create personalized treatment plans for optimal symptom relief.

Discover targeted interventions to help your clients:

Learn problem-solving skills to manage emotions
Develop healthy coping strategies
Overcome avoidance or safety-seeking behaviors
Manage worry and negative thinking

If you are searching for tools to help you effectively target your clients’ specific symptoms with confidence and precision, this professional manual has everything you need to get started today.

Author Biography

Matthew McKay, PhD, is a professor at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA. He has authored and coauthored numerous books, including The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook, Self-Esteem, and Couple Skills, which have sold more than five million copies combined. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, and specializes in the cognitive behavioral treatment of anxiety and trauma.

Patrick Fanning is a professional writer in the mental health field, and founder of a men’s support group in Northern California. He has authored and coauthored twelve self-help books, including Self-Esteem, Thoughts and Feelings, Couple Skills, and Mind and Emotions.

Erica Pool, PsyD, is a professor at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA; and is a clinician and director of training at Peninsula Behavioral Health in Palo Alto, CA. She specializes in anxiety disorders, trauma-related disorders, and sleep and eating disorders in adults and adolescents. The goal of her work is to understand processes at the core of human suffering to help craft individualized and culturally responsive treatments.

Patricia E. Zurita Ona, PsyD, “Dr. Z,” is a psychologist specializing in working with and creating compassionate, research-based, and actionable resources for overachievers and overthinkers to get them unstuck from worries, fears, anxieties, perfectionism, procrastination, obsessions, and ineffective ‘playing it safe’ actions. She is founder of the East Bay Behavior Therapy Center—a boutique practice where she offers therapy and coaching services based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and contextual behavioral science (CBS). She has been nominated as a fellow of the Association of Contextual Behavioral Science for her contributions to the applications of ACT to specific fear-based struggles.