Why CORE Exists
You already know rehab isn’t just about movement, strength, or pain. It’s the tough conversations.
It’s the fear behind the “I’m fine.”
It’s the athlete who’s shut down because they don’t trust their body anymore.
It’s the client who’s so overwhelmed they can’t even hear your advice.
It’s the moment you realise the barrier isn’t physical, it’s psychological.
It’s about the person sitting in front of you, the one navigating frustration, fear, and the loss of who they were before the injury.
That’s why CORE Mental Rehab Training exists.
It’s built for clinicians who care deeply, who feel the emotional weight in the room, and who want simple, ethical, practical ways to bring psychological skills into everyday rehab, without becoming a therapist, and without adding more overwhelm to already busy sessions.
This isn’t another CPD you tick off. It’s a way of working that actually fits the realities of clinical life.
The CORE Mental Rehab Framework
Connect • Observe • Respond • Empower
The CORE model gives you a clear, simple way to work with the psychological side of injury. It blends evidence-based ideas from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT), Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT), and identity-focused rehab which is all translated into everyday strategies you can use with injured athletes, weekend warriors, and clients who walk in carrying a heavy mental load.
Lets unpack each of these elements;
C – Connect
Because if they don’t feel safe, nothing else works.
Some clients walk in guarded, frustrated, or doubting every step of the process. Connection is about knowing how to build trust that to enable willingness. You will learn;
How to cut through the “I’m fine” mask
How to validate without overstepping
How to make someone feel understood to stay engaged
O – Observe
Help clients understand what’s going on inside before it impacts on progress.
Observation teaches you how to help clients notice thoughts, emotions, and body signals without reacting to them. It calms the noise to support the nervous system. It gives them back a sense of control.
And it gives YOU a clearer read on what’s blocking progress beyond the physical.
R – Respond
Move clients from “I can’t do this” to “I can try.”
When fear takes over, clients freeze, quit exercises, or push too hard. Respond is about shifting them toward values-driven actions,, small, meaningful steps that rebuild confidence.
You learn how to:
Reframe unhelpful thoughts
Help clients find their “why” when motivation fluctuates
Teach simple acceptance skills that make setbacks less overwhelming
This is where clients start choosing actions that support longer term progress rather than reacting to shorter term challenges.
E – Empower
Rebuild identity and autonomy after injury.
Injury is a relationship rupture. A relationship with the body and self. Injury disrupts view of self and identity.
Empower gives you tools to help clients:
Reclaim strengths they stopped seeing
Rebuild confidence and autonomy
Shift from feeling “broken” to feeling capable again
It’s the difference between a client who completes rehab… and a client who grows through it.
Ready to work with the human behind the injury?
CORE gives you a simple, practical framework that fits straight into the work you’re already doing. It helps you handle the emotional, psychological, and identity-level challenges your clients bring without guesswork, overwhelm, or stepping outside your scope.
When you're ready, explore the course details and enrolment options and see how CORE can support the way you already care for your athletes and clients.
Why CORE Matters for Rehab Clinicians
It integrates mind and body
Too often, rehab becomes an exercise in biomechanics alone. But healing is never purely mechanical. CORE helps clinicians recognise that emotional and cognitive processes, beliefs, expectations, self-talk are not background noise; they shape recovery outcomes. It brings clarity to the “psychological” side of injury without asking physios to become psychologists. Instead, it offers a structured, accessible way to address what every clinician already sees but struggles to name.
It strengthens the therapeutic alliance.
Connection predicts adherence. When a patient feels seen and understood, not just treated, they stay engaged. CORE gives clinicians the language and tools to build that trust, transforming routine sessions into collaborative, emotionally attuned encounters that fuel motivation and compliance.
It promotes psychological flexibility.
Every setback, flare-up, or plateau tests a patient’s (and clinician’s) tolerance for discomfort. CORE aligns with ACT principles, helping both parties stay present, respond rather than react, and move through uncertainty with purpose and perspective. It’s not about eliminating discomfort, it’s about expanding the capacity to meet it wisely.
It rebuilds identity and motivation.
Injury can disrupt identity. CORE helps clinicians guide patients through the psychological reconstruction, beyond loss, toward growth. It reframes recovery from a battle back to who they were into a journey of rediscovering who they’re becoming.
It protects clinician wellbeing.
Compassion fatigue is real. CORE doesn’t just serve your client, it supports you the practitioner. By using the same reflective framework for your own growth, you can cultivate resilience, clarity, and compassion, so you can keep showing up with energy and empathy, even in the most demanding environments.
CORE bridges the gap between the physical and the psychological, not by adding more to your workload, but by strengthening connection, meaning, and effectiveness in your work.
What You’ll Gain
Evidence-based tools to integrate emotion and meaning into rehab, without overstepping your role.
Simple, transferable techniques for improving engagement and adherence.
Confidence in working with the psychological side of recovery.
Resilience and clarity in how you manage your own emotional load as a clinician.
A renewed sense of purpose in your practice and connection to your clients.
This is professional development that changes the way you think, connect, and work.
How It Works
8 weeks of 8 live sessions (75 mins each)
Small group, high-touch format (max 15 clinicians)
Structured mix of theory, reflection, and clinical supervision
8 CPD hours
Includes reflective workbook, integration templates, and access to a peer discussion space.
Pricing & Payment Options
Full course: £699
Payment plan: 3 monthly payments of £233
Invest in your skills. Transform your sessions. Support your clients beyond the exercises.
Ready to Join?
If you want to move beyond exercises and start supporting your clients’ emotional recovery, while strengthening your own confidence and wellbeing then this is for you.
Join the next CORE Mental Rehab cohort and bring psychology to life in your clinical practice.