Clinical Training for Organizations
The Unified Protocol is the leading transdiagnostic, evidence-based treatment for emotional disorders, backed by over 100 peer-reviewed studies. The UPI partners with organizations to train clinicians, build internal expertise, and support implementation at scale through flexible training, consultation, and advanced trainer pathways.
The evidence
Barlow, Farchione, Bullis, et al. (2017) · See also Longley & Gleiser (2023), meta-analysis
Live figures from UPI’s training platform, tracked since September 2024.
The Challenges
Every clinical organization we work with starts the same conversation. These are the problems the Unified Protocol was built to solve.
“Our patients rarely have just one problem.”
Anxiety, depression, trauma-related symptoms, substance use, and emotion dysregulation issues often overlap. The UP targets core processes shared across emotional disorders, making it well suited to the complexity and comorbidity of real-world care.
“We need evidence-based care that can scale.”
Training clinicians in multiple diagnosis-specific protocols can be resource intensive. A single, flexible treatment framework can simplify training and support broader implementation across clinicians, populations, and settings.
“Our clinicians worry that a structured treatment will feel too rigid.”
The UP combines structure with flexibility. Its emotion-focused principles and skills provide a clear roadmap for treatment while allowing clinicians to individualize how they are applied to each patient.
“We don’t have the resources to train our clinicians in a different treatment for every diagnosis.”
Diagnosis-specific approaches can create an enormous training burden, especially when patients present with overlapping or changing concerns. The UP gives clinicians one evidence-based framework that can be applied across a broad range of emotional disorders.
“Our patients are spending too long in treatment without enough progress.”
More treatment doesn’t always translate to better outcomes. The UP provides a focused, evidence-based roadmap for change, with research showing meaningful improvement can occur even in brief treatment formats.
“Training has to fit into real clinical workloads.”
Traditional training models can require substantial time away from patient care. UPI offers flexible, asynchronous learning options designed to make high-quality UP training more accessible, with opportunities for live consultation and ongoing support.
The Unified Protocol
An emotion-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy designed to fit the patient, not the diagnosis. Eight evidence-based modules target the emotional processes underlying anxiety, depressive, obsessive-compulsive, trauma- and stressor-related disorders and other emotional disorders, including the comorbidity that accompanies these diagnoses.
Teaches effective skills for coping with intense emotions that are applicable across situations.
Clinically significant reductions in anxiety and depression symptom severity equivalent to diagnosis-specific, first-line treatments.
Meaningful reductions in functional impairment and improvements in quality of life.
Successfully integrated into outpatient, inpatient, residential, integrated care, and intensive treatment settings.
peer-reviewed research articles demonstrate the effectiveness of the Unified Protocol across populations, settings, and cultural contexts worldwide. The UP is the most widely studied transdiagnostic treatment in existence.
The Training
Whether you’re introducing the UP across an organization, preparing clinicians to deliver it in practice, or building internal training capacity, UPI offers flexible pathways to match your goals.
Available across training pathways
Custom support for organizations implementing the UP at scale, including rollout planning, training strategy, consultation, and ongoing clinical support.
Your Point of Contact
Director of Outreach · Unified Protocol Institute
Dr. Joel Wyatt brings deep clinical expertise in trauma-focused treatment for military personnel and veterans, combined with extensive experience as a UPI expert trainer. As the UPI’s Director of Outreach, he works directly with clinical organizations to design training programs that fit their population, team structure, and training goals.
Whether you’re exploring the UP for the first time or ready to embed it across your organization, Joel is the right person to start the conversation with.
Before You Go
The Unified Protocol has been studied across a wide range of clinical presentations, populations, and settings. Explore a systematic review of how the UP has been applied in practice, published by UPI Co-Director Clair Robbins and colleagues.
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Book a Consultation
Schedule a 30-minute consultation with Dr. Wyatt to discuss your clinical setting, training goals, and options for implementing the Unified Protocol.
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