Weekend 1: Confidentiality and ethics; cognitive psychotherapy: background and development; the therapeutic alliance; cognition and emotions; cognitive model of depression; cognitive model of anxiety; advice on dissertation writing; weekend 2: cognitive psychotherapy: therapy in action; weekend 3: neuro linguistic programming: foundation course; well-formed outcomes; sensory systems; submodalities; NLP and self hypnosis; resource anchoring procedure; 6 step reframing; weekend 4: Examinations; students also complete a disertation.