About PBBT
Process-based Behavior Therapy (PBBT®) is a contemporary, science-based psychotherapy that brings together strong scientific foundations with a clearly humanistic and non-pathologizing view of individuals. PBBT starts from the position that people are not broken. Rather than viewing distress as evidence of a flawed or defective individual, PBBT focuses on how a person is responding in their current and historical context, and how those responses may be keeping them stuck. The aim is not to “fix” the person, but to help them move toward lives that are more workable and provide value and meaning to them. PBBT is designed to support both clients and practitioners by offering a precise, ethical, and coherent way of understanding and responding to psychological suffering.
About the PBBT Institute
The PBBT Institute is the home of Process-based Behavior Therapy (PBBT®), dedicated to developing, teaching, and disseminating this contemporary, science-based approach to psychotherapy. The Institute was founded to support practitioners who want a more precise, coherent, and humane way of understanding and responding to psychological suffering.
Through training, supervision, research, and international collaboration, the PBBT Institute aims to equip practitioners with a clear process-based framework that can be applied across client groups, diagnostic presentations, and levels of complexity. Its work is grounded in the view that people are not broken, and that effective psychotherapy should protect the dignity and equal worth of both client and practitioner.
The PBBT Institute’s mission is to reduce the burden of mental health worldwide through high-quality training, supervision, research, and international collaboration in Process-based Behavior Therapy. By making PBBT accessible to practitioners and organisations seeking a structured, ethical, and humanistic approach to clinical work, the Institute aims to support greater clarity, confidence, and care in responding to psychological suffering.
