Specialised Professional Training for Therapists, CBT Practitioners & Coaches
Learn how to support clients with chronic pain, fibromyalgia, persistent fatigue and other long-term physical symptoms using an integrated brain–body approach.
Have you ever worked with a client who experiences persistent physical symptoms, yet medical investigations have not fully explained their condition?
Perhaps their doctor has recommended Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), but the client does not have an obvious mental health concern.
How do you help someone whose primary difficulties are physical rather than psychological?
This is where specialised BodyMind Therapy (BMT) training can expand your professional skills.
What Is BodyMind Therapy?
BodyMind Therapy (BMT) is an integrative therapeutic approach developed to help professionals understand and address the interactions between the brain, nervous system, emotions, behaviour and persistent physical symptoms.
The training combines principles from:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Pain Neuroscience Education (PNE)
- Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT)
- Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET)
- Nervous system regulation and behavioural change techniques
Who Is This Training For?
This professional training is suitable for:
- CBT practitioners and therapists
- Psychotherapists and counsellors
- Mental health professionals
- Healthcare professionals
- Other practitioners with relevant professional training
- Health and wellness coaches, chronic pain recovery coaches, and mind–body coaches with relevant professional training or personal recovery experience involving conditions such as fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, Long COVID, or other persistent physical symptoms.
You will learn how to recognise factors that may contribute to symptom persistence and how to guide clients through a structured therapeutic process.
The focus is on helping clients reduce symptom-related fear, develop emotional awareness, change unhelpful behavioural patterns and improve their quality of life.
Physical symptoms are real. Understanding the brain–body connection provides additional opportunities for effective therapeutic support.
What Will You Learn?
The training covers six essential areas:
1. Understanding the Brain–Body Connection
Learn how the brain and nervous system process pain and other physical sensations, including central sensitisation, neuroplasticity and the body's stress response.
2. Identifying Symptom-Maintaining Patterns
Recognise how fear, stress, emotional experiences, attention and learned behavioural responses can influence persistent symptoms.
3. Practical BodyMind Therapy Techniques
Learn therapeutic strategies informed by CBT, PRT, EAET and Reverse Therapy, including approaches to reducing symptom-related fear and developing a greater sense of safety.
4. Emotions, Needs and Behavioural Change
Explore emotional awareness, healthy boundaries, unmet needs, self-critical thinking and patterns that may contribute to ongoing stress.
5. Working With Different Client Groups
Understand important considerations when supporting clients with fibromyalgia, chronic pain, functional symptoms, ME/CFS, Long COVID and other persistent physical conditions.
Learn to recognise when medical assessment, pacing or additional specialist support is necessary.
6. The Complete BMT Therapeutic Process
Learn how to structure a BodyMind Therapy programme, from initial assessment and individual case formulation to practical interventions, progress monitoring and long-term self-management.
Training Format
30 hours of live online professional training
- 10 weekly sessions
- 3 hours per session
- Live interactive training via Zoom
- Practical exercises and case discussions
- DownloadableWhat Will You Learn?
The training covers six essential areas:
1. Understanding the Brain–Body Connection
Learn how the brain and nervous system process pain and other physical sensations, including central sensitisation, neuroplasticity and the body's stress response.
2. Identifying Symptom-Maintaining Patterns
Recognise how fear, stress, emotional experiences, attention and learned behavioural responses can influence persistent symptoms.
3. Practical BodyMind Therapy Techniques
Learn therapeutic strategies informed by CBT, PRT, EAET and Reverse Therapy, including approaches to reducing symptom-related fear and developing a greater sense of safety.
4. Emotions, Needs and Behavioural Change
Explore emotional awareness, healthy boundaries, unmet needs, self-critical thinking and patterns that may contribute to ongoing stress.
5. Working With Different Client Groups
Understand important considerations when supporting clients with fibromyalgia, chronic pain, functional symptoms, ME/CFS, Long COVID and other persistent physical conditions.
Learn to recognise when medical assessment, pacing or additional specialist support is necessary.
6. The Complete BMT Therapeutic Process
Learn how to structure a BodyMind Therapy programme, from initial assessment and individual case formulation to practical interventions, progress monitoring and long-term self-management.
- training materials
- BMT practitioner toolkit
- Certificate of completion
The programme is designed to help you integrate your learning into your existing professional practice.
Add BMT to Your Professional Qualifications
Upon successful completion, participants receive a BodyMind Therapy (BMT) Professional Training Certificate.
You may include your completed BMT training in your professional biography, CV and website to demonstrate additional training in supporting clients with persistent physical symptoms.
A separate BMT Practitioner designation may be available to professionals who meet additional practical competency requirements.
BMT is a private professional training programme and does not confer a regulated healthcare qualification or independent licence to practise psychotherapy.
Why Work With Us
Meet Your Trainer
Maria Melenchuk
CBT Therapist
Founder of BodyMind Therapy
Maria specialises in working with clients experiencing fibromyalgia, chronic pain, persistent fatigue and other long-term physical symptoms.
Her professional background includes Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, apprentice with exprienced therapist working in this field of expertise and further study of brain–body approaches to persistent physical symptoms.
Drawing on her training, professional experience and personal recovery journey from fibromyalgia, she has developed the BodyMind Therapy approach to provide therapists with a practical, structured framework for supporting clients.
Her goal is to help professionals feel more confident and better equipped when working with clients whose physical symptoms require a broader, individualised therapeutic approach.
Course Investment
€2,190 – Complete BMT Professional Training
The fee includes:
- 30 hours of live professional training
- Training materials and practical worksheets
- BMT therapeutic tools and case examples
- Practical exercises and guided learning
- Certificate of completion upon meeting course requirements
Any applicable taxes will be confirmed at registration.
Duration: 10 weeks
Location: Online via Zoom
Language: English
Group size: Limited to allow interactive learning
Become a BodyMind Therapy-Trained Professional
Expand your therapeutic skills and learn a structured approach to supporting clients with persistent physical symptoms.
Interested in joining the next BMT training programme?
Contact us to receive information about upcoming training dates and registration.
Email: thebodymindtherapy@gmail.com
Website: www.bodymindtherapy.fi
Important: BMT training is intended to complement participants' existing professional qualifications. It does not replace medical diagnosis or treatment. The programme distinguishes evidence-based interventions from emerging approaches and does not certify participants in CBT, PRT or EAET individually.
BODYMIND THERAPY PRACTITIONER TRAINING
€2,190
Full 10-week professional training programme
Total 30 hours of live training
Practical BMT toolkit
Professional training certificate
Online participation from anywhere