The Three Lies™ Framework
The Three Lies™ Framework and TLAQ™ help practitioners understand anxiety through protected meaning, Guardian™ responses and client-led therapeutic practice, with clear potential to develop into a distinct psychotherapy model.
Educational CPD training, formulation tools and practitioner resources from The Three Lies™ Institute.
An Original Practice-Informed Approach to Anxiety Formulation and Intervention
The framework is offered as a formulation and learning aid, to be used alongside professional judgement, supervision and established ethical practice.
The Three Lies™ Framework begins with a central clinical question: what meaning is anxiety protecting, and what protective response has learned to guard it? The framework helps practitioners move beneath symptom description and explore the protected meanings that may sit beneath anxiety.
The Body Remembers: A Memoir of Survival, Reinvention, and Becoming
A new memoir by Dr Eileen Higgins, co-founder of The Three Lies™ Institute, drawing on her professional and personal experience. Get your copy on Amazon.
CPD Training, Tools and Practitioner Resources
The Three Lies™ Institute provides introductory CPD training and is developing a fuller Foundation Programme, practitioner tools, TLAQ™ training and evidence pathways for anxiety formulation and therapeutic practice.
Introductory Workshop
A 6.5 CPD introduction to The Three Lies™ Framework and TLAQ™, designed for practitioners who want a first structured overview.
Foundation Programme
A 14-hour CPD programme introducing the Framework, TLAQ™ practice, formulation tools and emerging practice pathways.
TLAQ™ Training
A structured introduction to the Three Lies Anxiety Questionnaire as a reflective formulation aid.
Practitioner Worksheets
Downloadable tools to support formulation, reflection and supervision.
Evidence Development
A responsible pathway for feedback, refinement, research and future validation.
A Developing Contribution To The Therapeutic Field
The Three Lies™ Framework offers a coherent formulation and intervention pathway: from symptom to protected meaning, from protected meaning to Guardian™ response, from Guardian™ response to relief and cost, and from there into carefully paced therapeutic practice.
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Already purchased An Integrative Workshop on Anxiety on TherapyAcademy? Get your free workbook, speaker notes, and supporting resources on our dedicated materials page.
Get Workshop 1 Materials →Taking The Three Lies™ Framework Foundation Programme on TherapyAcademy? Get your workbook, speaker notes, and supporting resources on our dedicated materials page.
Get Workshop 2 Materials →Meet the founders
The Three Lies™ Institute was founded in 2026 to share the framework, develop it, and support the practitioners who use it.
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