2-Day Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Workshop
The Complete Start-to-Finish Training for Mental Health Professionals
- Speaker:
- Jacob Martinez, LPC
- Duration:
- Two Full Days
- Language:
- Presented in EN and FR
- Product Code:
- LWCI50645
- Brochure Code:
- PLW95480
- Media Type:
- Live Webcast - Also available: Digital Seminar
Description
Get everything you need to confidently use ACT in just 2 days!
- From basic principles to specific clinical applications
- Evidence-based treatment for anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic pain and more
- Exercises, scripts and printable guides
- Demonstrations so you know exactly what to do
ACT is one of the most evidence-based, flexible approaches in therapy today.
Because ACT is more than a set of interventions …
… it’s a way of doing therapy that transforms how you work with clients – taking you beyond the “problems and symptoms” approaches that dominate many manualized treatment models.
From anxiety and depression to trauma and chronic pain, ACT is a compassionate, values-driven approach that helps clients build the life they want – not just reduce the symptoms they don’t.
It’s why tens of thousands of clinicians count on it every day … and it’s why you need it in your treatment toolbox.
Now in this 2-day workshop you’ll learn to use ACT from start to finish.
You’ll join Jacob Martinez, LPC, ACT trainer and a past board member of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS). Jacob specializes in using ACT across a wide range of clinical presentations and has trained hundreds of clinicians to confidently integrate this approach into their work.
He’ll show you a clear, step-by-step path with detailed instruction, demonstrations, and practical real-world applications that show you exactly what to do.
No confusion. No overwhelm, Just practical training that prepares you to use ACT with your very next client.
You’ll leave ready to:
- Develop psychological flexibility in clients so they can break free from avoidance
- Use powerful ACT exercises that create breakthrough moments in session
- Guide clients to clarify their values and take committed action – even when it’s hard
- Address anxiety, depression, trauma, and chronic pain with ACT interventions
- And much more!
Whether you’re completely new to ACT, or have previous training, this program is sure to add value to your practice …
… maybe even change how you approach therapy altogether.
So don’t wait.
Register now!
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Speaker
Jacob Martinez, LPC Related seminars and products
Jacob Martinez, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor in private practice in Wisconsin. He is an active member of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS), the international organization for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with over 8,000 members worldwide and served on the board from 2023-2025. Jacob specializes in the ACT Matrix and creating novel ACT interventions, with a mission to help clinicians “think outside the books” through engaging presentations on psychological flexibility, along with ongoing training and supervision of clinicians.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jacob Martinez maintains a private practice. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jacob Martinez is a member of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.
Additional Info
Program Information
Access Period for Live WebcastFor live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.
Webcast Schedule
Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.
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Objectives
- Explain how the origins of human cognition and language via evolution is relevant to the ACT model.
- Identify Transformation of Function & Rule Governed Behavior.
- Define Functional Contextualism as it applies to clinical practice.
- Define Process Based Therapy.
- Develop a functional analysis of behavior using a three-term contingency model.
- Utilize the ACT Matrix to help clients identify unworkable patterns of behavior.
- Identify three goals of brief therapy in Focused ACT.
- Choose metaphors that promote behavior change.
- Appraise cases using the Hexaflex Model.
- Define Values in ACT.
- Determine Processes of Change via Network Diagramming.
- Examine Process Based case conceptualization trans-diagnostically.
Outline
ACT Foundations: Understanding the Big Picture
- What do we mean by “behavior” – from molecules to meaning
- Why we move toward some things and away from others
- How evolution shapes behavior: variation, selection, and retention
- ACT as an open-source, open-science model: what that means for you
- A Quick history of ACT: where it started, where it’s going
- Understanding the Relational Frame Theory (RFT)
- Research, risks and treatment limitations
The Human Story: Why the Contextual Roots of Behavior Matter in Therapy
- Why looking at our ancestors helps us understand behavior today
- What makes Homo sapiens unique in how we think and relate
- How we assign meaning and function – often arbitrarily
- 2000,000 years of advancement
A Philosophy of Function: Seeing Behavior Differently with ACT
- Radical behaviorism: not what you think
- Predict-and-influence: the heart of behavioral science
- The Three-Term Contingency; a therapist’s lens
- Creative hopelessness: turning stuckness into possibility
- Appetite vs. aversion: how context changes everything
- Helping clients analyze their own behavior functionally
- Demonstration
ACT as a Process-Based Therapy
- What Are Processes, Really?
- Psychological flexibility: the “container” for change
- Different ways to conceptualize it:
- The Three Pillars/Focused ACT
- The ACT Matrix
- RFT’s three core strategies
- DNA-v model
- The Hexaflex & Core Yearnings
- Extended Evolutionary Meta Model
The Intake Session: Setting the Stage for Change
- How to balance intake goals with therapeutic momentum
- Using the ACT matrix to promote rapid insight
- Identifying treatment goals that actually work
- Giving clients hope from the very first session
- Setting homework that sticks
- Case demonstration
ACT in Short-Term Therapy: Making Every Minute Count
- Why short-term therapy can be powerful
- Simplifying your ACT toolbox
- Focusing on three key change agents
- The Brief Contextual Interview
- Easy-to-learn metaphors that make a big impact
- Live Case Demos
Using Language as Intervention in ACT
- How to craft and co-create metaphors with clients
- Tips for making metaphors come alive in session
- Case demonstration
“Set Piece” Interventions that Target Multiple Processes at Once
- Present moment contact
- Experiential acceptance
- Cognitive defusion
- Self-as-context
- Values clarification
- Committed action
Values: The Great Transformers
- Defining values in functional terms
- Helping clients clarify what truly matters
- Linking values to vitality and motivation
- Case demonstration
Case Conceptualization: What Process Am I Targeting?
- Using the Hexaflex & Core Yearnings to guide your work
- Making process “reads” in real time
- The Problem-Procedure-Process-Outcome framework
- Network diagramming for complex cases
- Case Demonstration
Target Audience
- Social Workers
- Counselors
- Psychologsits
- Physicians
- Addiction Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Registered Psychotherapists
- Case Managers
- Nurses
- Mental Health Professionals
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