Triskel Mental Health CBT

📌 CBT Tools for the Trades – Training Overview

The CBT Tools for the Trades Training Program is a practical, skills-based mental health course designed specifically for tradespeople, supervisors, and employers. This course teaches Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) tools that participants can immediately apply on and off the job to improve mental health, decision-making, and overall workplace safety.

Unlike traditional therapy-based approaches, this course focuses on self-applied, practical tools that work within the realities of the trades — demanding schedules, high-risk environments, and limited access to conventional mental health services.

🔹 What CBT Teaches

This course focuses on assessment and adjustment across three core areas:

• Thoughts: Identifying and challenging negative or unhelpful thinking patterns.
• Emotions: Understanding emotional responses and learning effective regulation strategies.
• Behaviours: Recognizing and changing behaviours that negatively impact safety, work performance, and personal life.

🔹 Key Learning Modules

• Understanding Mental Health in the Trades: Why tradespeople are at higher risk and how mental health directly affects safety.
• CBT Foundations: How thoughts, emotions, and behaviours interact — and how to intervene.
• Emotional Regulation Tools: Techniques to manage stress, anger, anxiety, and emotional overload.
• Behavioural Pattern Awareness: Identifying and correcting negative behaviour cycles before they escalate.
• Thought Monitoring & Reframing: Practical tools to recognize and change unhelpful thinking.
• Applying CBT on the Job: Using CBT tools in high-pressure, high-risk work environments.
• Leadership & Crew Impact: How mental health affects team dynamics, supervision, and safety culture.

🔹 Who This Course Is Built & Taught By

This course is built and delivered by a tradesperson who has worked in the industry, experienced the mental health challenges firsthand, and successfully applied CBT tools to get through them.

This provides a culturally competent perspective often missing in traditional mental health training — eliminating common barriers such as clinical language, inaccessible therapy models, and environments that tradespeople struggle to relate to.

🔹 Why This Course Exists

It is now widely recognized that mental health challenges are prevalent in the trades. What is discussed far less is the increased safety risk that comes with unmanaged mental health — impaired focus, poor decision-making, risk-taking, and breakdowns in communication.

This course addresses mental health not only as a wellness issue, but as a critical safety and performance issue for both workers and employers.

✅ Upon Completion, Participants Will Be Able To:

• ✅ Regulate emotional responses in high-stress situations.
• ✅ Identify and interrupt negative thought patterns before they escalate.
• ✅ Recognize and change harmful behavioural cycles.
• ✅ Apply CBT tools independently without reliance on ongoing therapy.
• ✅ Improve focus, decision-making, and job-site safety.
• ✅ Support healthier crews and stronger safety culture.

🔹 Benefits for Workers

• Improved mental resilience and stress management
• Practical tools that fit real trade schedules and environments
• Increased confidence and emotional control
• Reduced burnout, frustration, and negative coping behaviours

🔹 Benefits for Employers

• Reduced safety incidents linked to mental fatigue and stress
• Stronger leadership and communication on crews
• Improved productivity and decision-making
• Demonstrated commitment to worker mental health and safety

Participants who complete this course leave with real, usable mental health tools — not theory — delivered in a way that tradespeople understand, respect, and actually use.