The CBT Career Guide (with Dr Helen Moya)

Dr Helen Moya is back in the therapy room, this time to talk about her new book, The CBT Career Guide. Helen was previously course director on the Nottingham CBT PG Dip, and long-time listeners will remember her from our earlier episode on comorbid ADHD (linked below). This time she's turned her attention to something training courses rarely touch: what an actual career in CBT looks like, before, during and long after qualifying.

• The ARD model — why Helen built her book around the Attract, Retain and Develop model rather than the usual "before/during/after training" framing, and why she wants career pathways taught in schools and colleges, not just on placement.
• Professional identity and the "patchwork" route in — the difference between coming into CBT via a core profession versus the KSA route, and why so many trainees feel unmoored without a clear professional identity.
• Retention, burnout and the "sausage factory" — the systemic pressures that keep clinicians stuck, and why career development so rarely gets talked about.
• Diversity, lived experience and building a CBT therapist — unconscious bias, imposter syndrome, and why Helen made diversity a thread through the whole book rather than a single chapter.

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ABOUT HELEN

Dr Helen Moya is the author of The CBT Career Guide, former course director of the Nottingham CBT PG Dip, and a CBT therapist with a background in learning disability nursing. She offers one-to-one career consultations alongside her writing, training, and clinical work.

The CBT Career Guide is available from Amazon and other book retailers (~£21).

You can find out more about Helen on her website at ⁠http://www.moyacbt.co.uk/⁠, and check out her incredibly useful resource page at ⁠http://www.moyacbt.co.uk/resources/⁠.

Also mentioned: our earlier episode with Helen on comorbid ADHD — well worth going back to if you haven't already.

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In our first episode of 2026, we speak to Dr. Laura Winter (Counselling Psychologist and researcher with a special interest in P/politics and social justice) and Dr. Richard Bennett (Clinical Psychologist, CBT / ACT therapist and Clinical Lead on the HICBT course at the University of Birmingham) about P/politics!

Key topics include:

- What we mean by P/politics, and the difference between Politics and politics

- How P/politics shows up in therapeutic environments

- Navigating P/political material as part of therapeutic journeys.

Lots of food for reflection in this episode, and we hope you found it as fascinating as we did!

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ABOUT DR. LAURA WINTER:

Laura Winter (she/her) is an HCPC registered Counselling Psychologist and Reader in Education and Counselling Psychology in the Manchester Institute of Education.

Laura has published widely in the fields of counselling psychology and education, focusing largely on the interplay between social and political issues, education and wellbeing.

You can find out more about Laura's work at https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/laura.winter/

ABOUT DR. RICHARD BENNETT:

Dr Richard Bennett works as an Associate Professor on the CBT programmes at the University of Birmingham, where he co-leads the Postgraduate Diploma in HICBT, training therapists NHS Talking Therapies. He is qualified as a Clinical Psychologist and Occupational Therapist and regularly contributes to a range of professional training courses across the University.

More information on Dr. Bennett can be found at:

www.thinkpsychology.co⁠ - for therapy, supervision, and other enquiries

https://www.thinkpsychology.co/about.php?page=research-and-publications⁠ - for a list of Rich's publications

www.ACTivatingyourpractice.com⁠ - for training in ACT

https://2oldpsych.alitu.com/⁠ - for Dr. Rich and Dr. Ray Owen's ACT Training Podcast: Two Old Psychologists Talking About Stuff

Rich can also be found at @ThinkPsychol on Insta, Threads, and Bluesky.

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In this episode, we speak to Dr. Richard Bennett, clinical psychologist, and clinical lead of the HICBT course at the University of Birmingham about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy!

Key topics include:

• What ACT is and why you should use it;
• Differences between ACT and second wave CBT;
• Recent changes to the HICBT curriculum;
• Troubleshooting ACT Metaphors.

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In true ACT style, this is a wonderfully experiential episode, and we hope you enjoy it!

ABOUT DR. RICHARD BENNETT

Dr Richard Bennett works as an Associate Professor on the CBT programmes at the University of Birmingham, where he co-leads the Postgraduate Diploma in HICBT, training therapists NHS Talking Therapies. He is qualified as a Clinical Psychologist and Occupational Therapist and regularly contributes to a range of professional training courses across the University.

More information on Dr. Bennett can be found at:

www.thinkpsychology.co⁠ - for therapy, supervision, and other enquiries

https://www.thinkpsychology.co/about.php?page=research-and-publications⁠ - for a list of Rich's publications

www.ACTivatingyourpractice.com⁠ - for training in ACT

https://2oldpsych.alitu.com/⁠ - for Dr. Rich and Dr. Ray Owen's ACT Training Podcast: Two Old Psychologists Talking About Stuff

Rich can also be found at @ThinkPsychol on Insta, Threads, and Bluesky.

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