The Three Lies™ Framework Foundation Programme
Two days of teaching on The Three Lies™ Framework and the Three Lies Anxiety Questionnaire™ (TLAQ™), presented by Dr Eileen Higgins, and designed so you can work through it at your own pace.
The programme explores how a lie experienced as truth—‘I can’t cope’, ‘I’m not good enough’ or ‘I have no value/worth’—may shape anxiety and the responses developed to manage it. Through Coping, Adequacy and Belonging, we consider how these meanings may once have preserved hope, agency or connection, and how Guardian™ responses may continue to protect them. The TLAQ™ supports a structured, collaborative enquiry into the person’s meaning, protective responses, immediate relief, longer-term cost and context, informing an agreed next step and review.
Educational CPD material. The Three Lies™ Framework is presented as a proposed, practice-informed formulation heuristic, not a diagnostic model or a validated treatment.
What you will take away
The programme builds a client-led, context-sensitive approach to formulation, rather than promoting a single technique.
Why anxiety needs formulation
Explain why formulation matters in work with anxiety, and where the Framework sits alongside other approaches.
Three protected meanings
Describe the Coping, Adequacy and Belonging meanings, and how Guardian™ responses may protect a recognised meaning.
Using the TLAQ™ within the Framework
Explain the purpose of the TLAQ™, and follow its administration and scoring guidance.
From profile to formulation
Move from questionnaire responses to a tentative, collaborative formulation, invite client feedback and agree a next step.
Two days, 17 parts
Each part combines slides, the presenter’s teaching and narration, followed by a short knowledge check. The accompanying participant workbook supports each day.
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01
9 parts
Day One: Understanding The Three Lies™ Framework
Nine parts: orientation and safeguards, why anxiety needs formulation, Framework positioning and ethical language, the three protected meanings, formulation conversations, practice pathways and cases, clinical integration and accountability.
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02
8 parts
Day Two: Using the TLAQ™ within the Framework
Eight parts: positioning the TLAQ™, preparation, administration and scoring, from profile to formulation, client feedback conversations, case examples and practice, ethics, governance and research.
Everything you need to learn at your own pace
Narrated teaching
17 teaching parts across Days One and Two, combining slides and Dr Eileen Higgins’s narration. Pause and revisit each part as you learn.
Knowledge checks
A quiz accompanies every part, with feedback to support your understanding.
Complete participant workbooks
Download a complete workbook for each day, with the resources, exercises and learning records required to complete the programme. All required materials are included in your fee.
Learn at your own pace
Return to the teaching and work through both days at a pace that suits you. Your access has no expiry date.
CPD completion certificate
IACP Approved for 14 CPD hours. Complete the lessons, knowledge checks and programme evaluation to receive your certificate of completion.
Research and development
Explore the Framework’s clinical rationale, the TLAQ™’s current evidence status and the research pathway for examining its consistency, usefulness and outcomes.
Dr Eileen Higgins
Clinical Psychologist · Psychotherapist · Clinical Supervisor
Dr Higgins is co-founder of The Three Lies Institute™. She developed The Three Lies™ Framework from many years of clinical practice, and presents it in this programme as an evolving, practice-informed formulation aid, to be critically evaluated rather than accepted as established theory.
Frequently asked questions
Who is this programme for?
Psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors and other practitioners who work with anxiety and want a client-led, ethically grounded approach to formulation using The Three Lies™ Framework and the TLAQ™.
How long do I have access?
Your access has no expiry date. The programme is pre-recorded, so you can pause, revisit and complete it in your own time.
Do I need to have done Workshop 1?
No. The Foundation Programme introduces the Framework from the start. The separate Integrative Workshop on Anxiety explores meditation, reflective practice and attentional regulation, alongside an introduction to The Three Lies™ Framework. This two-day Foundation Programme develops the Framework and practical use of the TLAQ™ in greater depth.
Is The Three Lies™ Framework a validated model?
No, and the programme says so clearly. It is presented as a proposed, practice-informed formulation heuristic, not a diagnostic model or a validated treatment. You are encouraged to evaluate it critically.
Do I need to know the Framework already?
No. Day One introduces the Framework, so no prior knowledge is needed.
What CPD does it carry?
The programme is IACP Approved for 14 CPD hours. You receive a certificate of completion once you have finished all lessons and quizzes and submitted the evaluation.