The Three Lies™ Framework
Educational CPD training, formulation tools and practitioner resources from The Three Lies™ Institute.
An Original Practice-Informed Approach to Anxiety Formulation and Intervention
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.
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 CPD training, formulation tools and practitioner resources for work with anxiety. Our programmes include an Integrative Workshop on Anxiety and the two-day Three Lies™ Framework Foundation Programme, alongside practitioner publications and an ongoing research and development pathway.
Introductory Workshop
A 6.5 CPD-hour workshop exploring meditation, reflective practice and attentional regulation for anxiety, alongside an introduction to The Three Lies™ Framework.
View workshop details →Foundation Programme
A two-day, 14 CPD-hour programme exploring The Three Lies™ Framework, the TLAQ™, collaborative formulation and the route into agreed action and review.
View programme details →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.
Meet the founders
The Three Lies™ Institute was founded in 2026 to share the framework, develop it, and support the practitioners who use it.
