CBT and Mindfulness for Tinnitus One Year Online Program

ACE Your Tinnitus

CBT, Mindfulness & Habituation

Developed by Dr. Bruce Hubbard, ACE Your Tinnitus combines decades of clinical experience with the perspective of someone who has personally experienced severe tinnitus. An internationally recognized expert in cognitive behavioral therapy for tinnitus, Bruce teaches the evidence-based skills that have helped thousands of people reduce tinnitus distress, while sharing the insights and encouragement that come only from having walked the same path.

What’s in the Tinnitus Course?

At the heart of the program is Dr. Bruce Hubbard's comprehensive ACE Your Tinnitus course. It brings together the essential CBT, mindfulness, and habituation strategies that have helped thousands of people overcome tinnitus distress and get back to living their lives.

Through engaging video lessons, practical articles, downloadable worksheets, and guided audio exercises, you'll learn the skills needed to reduce distress, quiet your brain's alarm response, and move toward lasting habituation.

We recommend spending about 30 minutes a day working through the course, but there's no deadline. You'll have one full year of access, so you can progress at a pace that fits your life and revisit the material whenever you need it.

In the course, you'll learn how to:


Escape the Tinnitus TRAP with ACE

  • How the TRAP Response drives tinnitus distress

  • How to break free of tinnitus with the ACE Response

  • Stages of Recovery from tinnitus distress

  • What to expect over the course of recovery 


Build Your ACE Toolkit

  • Build your CBT toolkit

  • Learn evidence-based CBT strategies to address insomnia

  • Learn evidence-based CBT strategies to address anxiety, annoyance, sadness, grief

  • Learn about common medications for insomnia and anxiety


How to Work Through the Stages

  • Normalize the wide range of tinnitus volumes, sounds and patterns

  • Adapt your ACE skills for challenging patterns, like reactive, variable and pulsatile tinnitus

  • Learn to apply CBT to sound sensitivity and hyperacusis

  • Learn how to work through the Stages of Recovery from tinnitus distress


Take a Recovery Perspective on Your Tinnitus

  • Learn and apply a recovery perspective on tinnitus

  • Decatastrophize and Deawfulize tinnitus

  • Detach from recurring unhelpful worries and doubts about tinnitus


The Why & How of Tinnitus Acceptance 

  • Learn the wisdom of acceptance

  • Demystify tinnitus tinnitus acceptance

  • Apply CBT skills to promote tinnitus acceptance


Mindfulness of Sound & Emotion 

  • Learn practical attentional strategies to help with accepting tinnitus

  • Learn to apply mindfulness to concentrate and sleep better with tinnitus

  • Learn to be in the present moment, despite what tinnitus is doing, and to engage fully in life


Take Courageous Action to Fully Rejoin Your Life 

  • Learn to apply your ACE skills in service of fully rejoining all areas of life lost to tinnitus

  • Learn a powerful CBT strategy called graded exposure

  • Learn to apply hearing protection to enter louder settings safely


Maintain Improvement & Surf Through Setbacks 

  • Learn to handle setbacks

  • Learn how to maintain your improvement for the years and decades to come

CBT Skills You’ll Learn

Bruce has carefully selected the most current CBT concepts and skills to create the most up to date, tinnitus relief course available. Skills include:

Careful Thinking

Learn the facts about tinnitus and habituation to develop and maintain a habituation perspective to guide your recovery.

Mindfulness of Sound

When used correctly, mindfulness is more than a relaxation strategy. Mindfulness helps us accept and coexist with tinnitus, to hear the sounds without getting swept up in the distress reaction, and to redirect our attention on the process to the hard work of moving on.

Self-Guided Sound Therapy

There is no need to spend thousands of dollars on sound therapy. You’ll learn to use sound enrichment to help with tinnitus as needed through low cost streaming devices and freely available sounds.

Take Courageous Action to Fully Rejoin Your Life

Your new coping skills put into service toward your goal of resuming all of the valued activities lost to tinnitus, to achieve full tinnitus relief, to feel and function like yourself again.

What You Get with the Course

There is no time pressure. Go at your own pace. While the course is designed to be completed in 8 weeks, you’ll have access for a full year.

One-On-One

45 minute one-on-one meeting with Dr. Hubbard

Lessons

Weekly video lessons, worksheets, guided mindfulness exercises, additional resources

Weekly

Weekly Group Coaching with Dr. Hubbard

  • “Bruce’s prediction you’ll habituate has come true!”

    Rebecca R, MBA Student, New York, NY

  • “I no longer notice my tinnitus, which I had thought would never be possible.”

    Deborah C., Piano Instructor, Englewood, NJ

  • “Bruce’s suggestions were immediately practical, useful, and effective.”

    Peter S., University Professor, London, UK

  • “You will heal, and you will be happy again!”

    Tony Z., Chief Technology Officer, Philadelphia, PA

  • “Within a week, the weight of the world had been lifted off my shoulders.”

    Randi R, Book Publishing Executive, Riverhead, New York

  • “After only 2 sessions, I felt confident I was on the right track.”

    Robert G., Strategic Analyst, Phoenix, AZ

  • “The fact that Bruce also has tinnitus gave me confidence that he understood.”

    Dick D, Retired Dentist, Galveston, TX

  • “Now I have my life back just as it was.”

    Helen F., Furniture Designer, Perth, Australia

  • “CBT is definitely the path to habituation.”

    Jeff T., Retired Financial Analyst, Pittsburgh, PA

  • “A huge improvement from when the ringing and hissing brought me to tears.”

    Brian G., Professional Musician, New York, NY

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