John Ludgate, Ph.D.

John Ludgate, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist, who has worked as a psychotherapist for more than 30 years and specializes in treating mood, anxiety, relationship, and psychosexual disorders. As well as having an active clinical practice, he is involved in training and supervision in CBT. Dr. Ludgate has written numerous journal articles and book chapters in the field of Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Anxiety and Depression, most recently contributing a chapter on Relapse Prevention to the Handbook of CBT (2021) published by the American Psychological Association. He has presented many seminars and workshops on cognitive behavioral approaches, both nationally and internationally.

CBT and Positive Psychology

While CBT is now well established as treatment for many disorders and has been widely disseminated, Positive Psychology and, in particular, how this approach can be helpful with psychological problems is less familiar to many therapists. The therapy approach which has been labelled Positive Psychotherapy (Rashid and Se...

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John Ludgate, Ph.D.

CBT for Challenging and Complex Problems

Cognitive Behavior Therapy first emerged in the late 1970s and in 1980s as a new treatment approach for depression (Beck et al 1979) and anxiety (Beck et al 1985). This was an exciting advent of a highly structure, collaborative and short-term treatment (12-16 sessions) for these disorders and an impressive literature...

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John Ludgate, Ph.D.

The Importance of Self Care for Therapists

I have worked as a psychotherapist for several decades in many different professional settings. While there have been great advances in our therapeutic interventions, up to recently there was not much attention paid more to the issue of self-care for mental health professionals. This in some ways still is a somewhat ne...

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John Ludgate, Ph.D.

Working on Relationship Problems with CBT

Many therapists who are familiar with CBT and deliver it individually are somewhat daunted seeing individuals or couples to deal with their relationship issues. Perhaps, they did not receive training in this field or feel they need to refer these clients to therapist who are more specialized in these issues. CBT has be...

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John Ludgate, Ph.D.

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