ACT Training Pathway: Bridging Foundations with Practical Applications
Become an ACT-informed practitioner and apply ACT to a wide range of conditions.
An intensive ACT training pathway for clinicians
This training will expand your therapeutic skills and expand your Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) expertise.
This intensive pathway will provide you with:
- Over 30 hours of engaging video content.
- Real-world clinical cases of various conditions.
- Guided by seasoned ACT practitioners and trainers.
- Tools you need to succeed as an ACT-informed therapist.
Every module allows you to translate what you learn directly into improvements in client outcomes through immediate application.
“Enhancing Your Practice: A Comprehensive Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Training Program”
Why “ACT Training Pathway”?
- Over 30 hours of engaging video content.
- Real-world clinical cases of various conditions.
- Guided by seasoned ACT practitioners and trainers.
- Tools you need to succeed as an ACT-informed therapist.
- Master the application of ACT principles to anxiety, trauma, OCD, depression, and more.
- Teach clients concrete ways to increase their psychological flexibility and improve their overall well-being.
What will I learn?
Through this training, you will:
- Obtain a solid framework that clarifies how to organize and optimize your therapy sessions.
- Learn how to seamlessly integrate ACT into your practice, tailoring it to meet diverse client needs.
- Develop language and strategies that resonate with clients, using metaphors to empower them with concrete skills for better interpersonal interactions.
ACT Training Pathway Components
Foundations
1 course
Learn the fundamentals of ACT in this course led by Dr. DJ Moran, a clinical and school psychologist and trainer.
Discover the ACT core processes, practical exercises, metaphors, and how to implement this transdiagnostic approach.
Course length: 4:75
ACT for Anxiety and Mood Disorders
4 clinical cases
In this clinical case, Michelle Woidneck, Ph.D., provides a process-focused ACT perspective for understanding and treating generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).
She employs the hexaflex model in addition to useful metaphors and tools while developing an ACT-guided diagnosis and treatment structure.
Course length: 1.25 hours
Dr. Jessica Borushok presents the clinical case of Sarah, a 25-year-old woman with panic disorder and agoraphobia. Adopting an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) conceptualization, the therapist seeks to help Sarah develop self-confidence and flexible action guided by values.
The treatment plan includes psychoeducation, acceptance, and cognitive defusion techniques, as well as interoceptive and in vivo exposure exercises.
Course length: 1 hour
Brian Pilecki, Ph.D., talks about a client presenting with social anxiety. Through an ACT framework, he explains how to conceptualize a clinical case and develop a treatment plan.
Course length: 1.25 hours
Miranda Morris, Ph.D., explores the story of Hannah, a 20-year-old female client struggling with severe symptoms of anxiety and depression related to procrastination and problematic interpersonal experiences.
She discusses common challenges therapists face with this population and provides strategies to overcome them.
Course length: 1 hour
ACT for PTSD and Trauma
1 course / 2 clinical cases
Dr. Sonja Batten guides you on how to apply ACT exercises to trauma clients. She also addresses therapist obstacles and self-care, which is of great importance when treating clients with trauma issues.
Course length: 8 hours
Dr. Matthew Tull explores the fusion of ACT principles with trauma techniques, rebuilding resilience and purpose within clients with PTSD, focusing on the first responders population.
Course length: 1 hour
Dr. Sonja Batten conceptualizes a case and structures treatment based on the hexaflex model for a client with complex PTSD. This includes behavioral tracking, acceptance metaphors, values clarification, and differing levels of exposure.
Course length: 1.25 hours
ACT for OCD
1 course / 1 clinical case
Learn the ACT-based framework for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with Kate Morrison, Ph.D. She includes techniques, metaphors, and handouts that can be implemented directly in a clinical environment.
You will have access to multiple mock sessions in which you can observe Dr. Morrison applying ACT skills to treat OCD.
Course length: 8.25 hour
Kate Morrison, Ph.D., uses the ACT framework to conceptualize a clinical case about a client with harm obsessions regarding her daughter. She goes through the diagnostic process and the treatment structure.
Course length: 1 hour
ACT for Behavioral Issues
3 clinical cases
Dr. Hill uses the ACT framework with self-compassion skills to conceptualize and formulate the treatment plan for a client who meets the criteria for binge eating disorder.
She focuses on breaking the cycle of avoidance and increasing psychological flexibility in response to anxiety and stress, teaching you practical exercises.
Course length: 1.25 hours
Dr. Jonathan Bricker provides a detailed exploration of ACT within the context of smoking cessation, including strategies for managing cravings and the importance of empathy and client autonomy in the therapeutic process.
He also highlights strategies to be implemented during the post-quit phase and envisioning a smoke-free life.
Course length: 1.25 hours
Jessica Borushok, Ph.D., provides a comprehensive overview of burnout from a practical perspective. She talks about the features and symptoms of burnout through a case study conceptualized from an ACT perspective.
She also explores treatment strategies to address work-related and lifestyle factors contributing to burnout.
Course length: 1.25 hours
Get started right away and earn 1 CE credit
The Trauma Pack has a value of $1397. Promotional value $375
Your ACT Toolbox: A Worksheets and Handouts Library
Gain access to a diverse collection of handouts and worksheets.
Client Resources:
Exercises, metaphors, and activities to assign as therapeutic homework, reinforcing learning between sessions.
Clinician’s Toolkit:
Guides, checklists, and planners to streamline your preparation and deliver impactful ACT interventions with confidence.
Sample Video: ACT and Psychological Flexibility: Why It Matters?
From our course, Demystifying ACT: A Practical Guide for Therapists by DJ Moran.
All our sections are concise and clinically relevant; none of them lasts more than 12 minutes. That's our rule.
Meet Your Instructors
Dr. Moran coauthored a case conceptualization manual for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and several publications applying ACT to clinical issues, leadership, and behavioral health. He has appeared on The Learning Channel, Animal Planet, and The Oprah Winfrey Network discussing anxiety disorders, and is a recognized ACT trainer and board-certified Behavior Analyst.
Michelle Woidneck, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Omaha, Nebraska. She earned her doctorate in combined clinical/counseling/school psychology from Utah State University in 2013. She completed her doctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Boys Town Center for Behavioral Health.
Before entering private practice she was a staff psychologist for several years at the Center, where she helped to start the Trauma Recovery Clinic and co-developed an adolescent dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) program. Dr. Woidneck Kieffe provides individual and family therapy for adults and adolescents with diverse clinical presentations, and is a peer-reviewed acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) trainer.
Her clinical and research interests fall within the areas of acceptance- and mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioral interventions, ACT, DBT, trauma and posttraumatic stress, obsessive-compulsive disorder and related conditions, and evidence-based practice.
She is a licensed psychologist and the co-founder of True North Therapy and Training, a group practice in Bethesda, MD that is committed to providing and training practitioners in evidence based therapies. She currently serves as Past President on the Board of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS) and is President Emeritus of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the ACBS.
His research is focused on understanding the role of emotion regulation in the development and maintenance of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as well as a variety of maladaptive behaviors commonly observed among individuals with PTSD such as substance use, risk-taking behaviors, suicidal behavior, and nonsuicidal self-injury.
Dr. Tull has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, and his research has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Canadian Institute of Health Research. His program of research has been recognized through awards from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
Dr. Morrison is the owner of a telehealth clinical practice focused on these themes in Sandy, Utah. She has been practicing and studying ACT and clinical behavior analysis for well over a decade.
Accreditation Information
Some professional boards, including those for Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Addictions Professionals, may accept APA CE credits.
Please contact your professional licensing board for further information. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.
Psychotherapy Academy, #1851, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 4/7/2024 – 4/7/2027. Social workers completing this course receive continuing education credits.
Please contact your professional licensing board for further information. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.
States and provinces that accept ACE
Physicians (ACCME) Credit Designation: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of Medical Academy, LLC, and the Psychotherapy Academy. Medical Academy, LLC, is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ are accepted by the boards responsible for regulating Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants.
Please contact your professional licensing board for further information. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.
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