Digital Seminar

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Workshop

The Complete Start-to-Finish Training for Mental Health Professionals

Speaker:: Jacob Martinez, LPC
Duration:: Approx 12 hrs
Language:: Presented in EN
Copyright:: Apr 30, 2026
Product Code:: POS150645
Media Type:: Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webcast

Price
$599.99 - Standard

$51.99 - Additional Participant CE Test What's this?

Description

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.

You’ll learn to use ACT from start to finish.

You’ll watch 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.

Purchase now!

Credit

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 for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

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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 is started, where it’s going
Understand 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
200,000 years of advancement

A Philosophy of Function: See 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: turn stuckness into possibility
Appetite vs. aversion: how context changes everything
Help 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