Free Online Peer Supervision

Please note that the facilitators of these peer supervision groups do not hold legal responsibility for your professional practice. Professional bodies around the globe will differ in what counts as ‘official’ supervision or professional development activities. This is a structured peer learning forum. Do consult your professional body for clarity.

Support and Grow Together!

Welcome to the Online Peer Supervision Affiliate Page

Are you interested in connecting with other ACBS members online to learn together how to be more skilled with using ACT? Then Register for Drop-In Meeting Here or, if you need more information than what you see below, contact us by email: actpeersupervision@gmail.com

What is Peer Supervision?

The ACT Peer Supervision Group is a global forum that aims to provide learning between colleagues on the experiential practice of ACT, in a supported and safe group environment. The groups meet every two weeks. Once you’ve registered you can ‘drop-in’ to any of the groups without having to pre-book. The groups are hosted and facilitated by Peer Facilitators via the video conferencing service, Zoom. The Peer Facilitators are volunteers committed to providing a forum for collaborative learning and expanding our skills as ACT therapists. Anyone who participates can become a facilitator in due course, if they are interested.

When is it on?

Peer supervision groups meet twice a month on Fridays.

You can use this link to convert Universal time to your local time time and date converter.

Once you have registered, you will also receive a welcome email and then a reminder email every two weeks regarding the next group.
 

Why is Peer Supervision useful?

There are a number of reasons:

1. Opportunity to learn from ACT practitioners from around the world.
ACT is relatively new, so it can feel isolating using this approach without the support of colleagues nearby. This ACT peer supervision group allows us to learn from one another and create a community of people collaboratively learning, supporting and sharing knowledge.

2. Low cost (it's FREE!)
Regular skills development is vital but cost can be a barrier to practitioner development. These peer supervision groups are free for ACBS members.

3. Learning in a safe and supportive community
Peer supervision allows people at all levels of practice, from ACT trainers to people curious about how ACT works, to practice their skills, in a safe environment. As peers, everyone in the group including the facilitators take turns in the different learning roles. Growing personally and professionally requires us to be vulnerable. The facilitators of the peer supervision groups are aware of this and work to create a supportive environment that allows everyone to give and receive guidance and feedback in a positive and respectful way.

4. Convenient
In our busy, and sometimes quickly changing, schedules it is not always possible to commit to regular meetings. We have ‘drop-in’ groups every other week allowing you to attend when your schedule suits you, so if you miss one group you can always join another one.

5. Unique ‘real-play’ experiential learning
Reading, hearing or watching someone doing ACT gives us some idea about this approach, but it is through the actual practice of using the different elements within the ACT Hexaflex that deeper understanding, learning and growth takes place. These groups provide an opportunity to learn through experiential practice. All of our facilitators are trained and aware of the goal to keep the meetings as “experiential” as possible and will help the group to stay on track.

These groups have been adapted from the Portland Model of peer consultation. This model sets out a number of roles that participants can try out. This allows everyone the chance to develop their own therapeutic style, and observe other peoples’ ways of working. This model uses a ‘real-play’ approach where participants work with experiences that occur in the present moment, rather than with a memory or pretend scenario, as you would through ‘role-play’. This unique approach creates opportunities for participants to experience the different elements of the ACT Hexaflex.

What you can expect at the meetings

The meetings are hosted by Peer Facilitators. These are volunteers who have made a commitment to support participants and themselves be more skilful ACT therapists. Everyone is expected to participate to make the meetings work and support each other with feedback and encouragement.
Meetings are structured to help maintain purpose and focus for the group, with distinct roles for all participants
 

1. Welcome: When you join the Zoom meeting two facilitators will be there to welcome you. Please arrive 5 minutes before the start so that we can start promptly. When the group starts the room will be locked to create safety within the group. Facilitators will move the group through the different activities in a timely way. They will also encourage everyone to participate and feel comfortable contributing to the group, by balancing the needs of new or established members, or participants who are more or less vocal.

2. Brief Mindfulness exercise: One participant volunteers to guide the group in a 3-5min mindfulness exercise. This gives them the opportunity to practice running a brief mindfulness exercise and receive feedback from the group if they wish. It also gives participants a chance to clarify what they would like to offer others and achieve for themselves at the meeting.

3. The Skills Builder: this role gives one or two participants a great opportunity to practice particular metaphors and skills or general ACT skills with another participant as the ‘client’. We all want to improve our skills, but it takes courage to learn and grow. All participants (whatever their experience) are encouraged to take on this role, and the whole group serves this growth with encouragement and respectful reflections. Two people can share the role as Skills Builder and Assistant Skills Builder. The latter is called on by the skills builder for ideas if they feel stuck.

4. The Presenter: a participant offers to step into the ‘client’ role with a personal or professional issue that the Skills Builder can use as ‘material’ as they work on their ACT skills. Experiencing ACT interventions from the “client” perspective can be a powerful way to learn. The Presenter can talk about anything, e.g. how nervous they feel to join a new group! We rely on you to judge what is appropriate to share because it is not a therapy group and the focus will be supporting the Skills Builder with their professional development.

5. Time Keeper: a participant agrees to keep time for the Skills Builder during their 10-20 minute inter-vision exercise.

6. Hexaflex Monitors: The remaining participants mute their microphones so that only the pair in ‘real-play’ can be heard. However, they have the important role of supporting the Skills Builder by feeding back their observations on how they saw the Skills Builder relate to the Presenter and how they moved within the ACT Hexaflex, what they saw that worked particularly well or admired and what they might have done differently.
  

7. The Inter-vision (Real-Play) exerciseThe Inter-vision (Real-Play) exercise

The relationship between the Skills Builder and Presenter mirrors a supervisor-therapist or therapist-client pairing. At the end of the ‘real-play’ exercise the Presenter provides their experiential feedback first to the Skills Builder. Then the Skills Builder shares their experience before listening to feedback from all the other participants.The Skills Builder can have time at the end of the feedback for answering any questions raised or comment on the feedback.

8. The group ends with each participant sharing one word to describe their current emotional state (energised, gratitude etc.) or an intention that they would like to work on.

Even though each group is unique, this structure helps to guide our meetings. We find that this promotes learning and provides safety for participants to join in as and when they can.
 

Group requirements

• As a courtesy to others and minimise disruption during the meeting we ask participants to commit to the entire 90 minutes of the meeting or choose to attend on another day.
• Participants are asked to arrive 5 minutes before the start time to log on. Access to the meeting will not be possible 5 minutes after the start time.
• Respect Confidentiality in the group.
   

If you would like to join us, take these three simple steps and we’ll see you soon!

1. Register - This is a one-time registration allowing you to drop-in on days and times that work for you.  Register here: registration form.

2. Check your time zone – We receive participants from around the globe spanning several time zones. It is your responsibility to check what time the meetings take place in your time zone. This global time zone calculator may help: time and date converter. Please note that summer and wintertime changes vary from country to country. Please check when times change where you are.

3. Download the video conference application Zoom onto your computer.  You can find out about Zoom here. You will be given our Zoom Room ID's once your register. The early and late groups have different Zoom ID's which you use each week to join the meeting.

Current Peer Facilitators:

email: actpeersupervision@gmail.com

(This webpage was updated January 2023)

Arabic-Speaking Affiliate of ACBS

Affiliated 2022

Click here to join the Arabic-Speaking Affiliate

Contact Information:

Dr. Fady Safwat, Egypt

Description of Membership

We welcome all Arabic speaking ACBS members from all countries.

Possible Activities:

• ACT Book Club
• Facebook Group
• Resources in Arabic

Austria - ACT in Austria - Affiliate of ACBS

Affiliated 2021

With this affiliate, we want to connect the Austrian ACBS community through our passion for ACT. We intend to organize get-togethers , knowledge exchange and workshops (Schnitzel and Lederhosen optional). 

Click here to join the ACT In Austria Affiliate!

Click here to join the email group (via Google Groups). Please make sure you join the SIG first!

(If you're not a registered member of this SIG, your request to join the email group will be denied)
 

Past Events:

February 28, 2024: The Austrian ACT - Get Together

March 29, 2023: The Austrian ACT - Get Together

February 8, 2023: The Austrian ACT - Get Together

November 16, 2022: The Austrian ACT - Get Together

September 21, 2022: The Austrian ACT - Get Together

July 6, 2022: The Austrian ACT - Get Together

May 4, 2022: The Austrian ACT - Get Together

March 2, 2022: The Austrian ACT - Get Together 

December 1st, 2021: The Austrian ACT - Glühwein Get Together (cancelled due to lockdown)

November 3rd, 2021: The Austrian ACT - Get Together

For more information about the Austria Affiliate, please contact Michael Herold at michael@michaelherold.de or Marilena Bertacco at marilenabertacco@yahoo.com

Affiliated 2018

Click Here to Join the Manitoba Affiliate!

The Manitoba affiliate of ACBS is open to Psychologist and Behaviour Analysts within Manitoba who are interested in ACT and/or who have adopted ACT as their primary approaches to work and life.  Our group meets on a monthly basis to:

• Foster a supportive environment in which members can learn more about and develop their proficiency with ACT and incorporate ACT/RFT into their work and personal lives;
• Provide opportunities for ACT peer supervision;
• Provide an opportunity for members to network with other ACT practitioners and to share ACT resources (e.g., books, internet resources, trainings, etc.);
• Provide a forum for members to share their own ACT related activities (research projects, clinical experiences, etc.);
• Keep members informed about local, national, and international ACT related events;
• Explore opportunities for members to become involved in promoting, facilitating, and advocating for local ACT training opportunities. 
 

Our contact person is James Ediger, Ph.D., C.Psych.   email:  drjamesediger@mymts.net

Click Here to Join the Ontario, Canada Affiliate!

The Ottawa Affiliate of ACBS is a group open to professionals in the Ottawa community who are members of the Association for Contextual Behavioural Science (ACBS). We welcome clinicians of all levels of experience who share an enthusiasm for third wave approaches. Together, we are working towards the development of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) community in the greater Ottawa area.

At the current time, there are no Ottawa meetings scheduled. Our activities have been paused throughout the pandemic. At the the provincial level, the Ontario chapter has moved all their events online which has facilitated greater participation across the province. Please refer to the Ontario chapter's website (acbsontario.com) and Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ActOntarioChapter) to learn more about the events and activities happening with the ACBS Ontario chapter. 

Please reach out to Elizabeth Francoeur if you have any questions or check us out on Facebook.

Currently our contact persons are:

Elizabeth Francoeur
Ottawa, ON

Melisa Arias-Valenzuela
Ottawa, ON

Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ACBSOtt/

(This webpage was updated on 11/28/2023)

Czech Affiliate of ACBS

Click here to join the Czech Affiliate!

Affiliated 2020

For more information about the Czech Affiliate, please contact Helena Vontorčíková at helenavontorcikova@gmail.com or Lucie Zernerová at actskoleni@gmail.com

Kazakhstan Affiliate of ACBS

Affiliated 2023

We welcome all ACBS members from Kazakhstan and all the colleagues working within the Kazakhstani or Central Asian context.

To join our telegram-chat, please, write a letter to Dinara or Zhadra. 

Click here to join the Kazakhstan Affiliate

Contact Information:

Dinara Tussupkaliyeva: d.tussupkaliyeva@gmail.com
Zhadra Sekrekova: zhadra.sekrekova@gmail.com

Lebanon Affiliate of ACBS

Affiliated 2023

We welcome all ACBS members from Lebanon and the neighboring Arab Levant.

The Lebanon Affiliate of ACBS was founded in 2023 to bring together enthusiasts about contextual behavioral sciences in Lebanon and the Arab Levant region. This area of the world is unique in many ways, from the beauty and diversity of its nature, history, and peoples to the dire challenges posed for professionals who share the burden of instability and ongoing traumatic realities with the people they serve. This group aims to offer a stable, safe community of support and growth for those living in Lebanon and other countries in the Arab Levant.

Click here to join the Lebanon Affiliate

Contact Information:

Acbslebanon@gmail.com

Check us out on FaceBook

Mures County - Targu Mures Affiliate of ACBS

Click here to join the Mures County - Targu Mures Affiliate of ACBS Affiliate!

Affiliated 2019

Coordinators:

Cosmin Popa & Cristiana-Manuela Cojocaru

Address:

GE Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures
Department of Counseling, Career Guidance and Informing Students (DCCGIS)
Targu Mures, Mures County, 540142
Romania

Our center provides psychological diffrent approaches in psychotherapy, as well as Process-Based Therapy (PBT-T) and CBT. These activities are achieved through an integrative approach that incorporates the use of Acceptance and Commintment Therapy (ACT) techniques in order to facilitate psychological flexibility, including mindfulness, acceptance, cognitive defusion strategies, as well as and values-based exercises and action plans. The final purposes of these programs are to reduce academic stress by improving emotional management and to promote a values-based living.

In addition, the implementation of research projects on the psychotherapeutic field represents an important goal in our professional activity. In this respect, the simplified model of ACT is an important evidence-based psychotherapeutic method regarding psychological interventions for individuals who face anxiety, depression or another emotional disorders. Nevertheless, the disseminations of ACT, CBS and RFT model in our profesional communities represents another important objective. Therefore, this will consist in scientific presentations at conferences, clinical workshops and publications regarding the psychological treatment from the ACT perspective.

Moreover, another research area that involves our team is related to the fields of clinical psychology. Specifically, we are interested in the implications of psychological flexibility/ inflexibility processes in emotional disorders co-occuring with serious menthal health conditions like schizophrenia, psychiosis and personality disordes, as wel as chronic medical conditions. Also, the investigation of psychological difficulties that accompany various medical procedures, such as surgical interventions using the ACT framework is another important focus of our Affiliate.

Ukraine Affiliate of ACBS

Affiliated 2023

We welcome all ACBS members from Ukraine. If you are from other country and want to stand with Ukrainians we are welcoming you too.

Click here to join the Ukraine Affiliate

Contact Information:

Kateryna Solomianova-Kyrylchuk - solomianova.kyrlchuk@gmail.com
Olena Sushan - psychoplantago@gmail.com

Resources:

• ACT Resources in Ukrainian
• Ukraine Email Listserv
• Instagram
• Telegram channel - for all news and announcments 
• YouTube Channel

Upcoming Events:

• Each even Wednesday at 19.00 Kyiv time (GTM+3) - The reading club
• Each odd Wednesday at 19.00 Kyiv time (GTM+3) - ACT Talks

Past Events:

18/07/2023 - Workshop "Living with Difficult Emotions: Integrating ACT and DBT Strategies" by Olga V. Berkout, Ph.D.
05/07/2023 - Online meeting with dr. Steven C. Hayes
28/06/2023 - The workshop "From Values ​​to Action: Proactivity in Life and Therapy" facilitated by Olena Sushan
20/06/2023 - The peer-intervision facilitated by Aliona Kaminska
18/06/2023 - The webinar "Autism: understanding and modern therapy as an example of behavioral analysis" speaker ABA Therapist Anastasiia Angelova
07/06/2023 - The webinar "Nuts and bolts of giving psychological help for LGBTQ+ people" speaker Anna Sharygina
24/05/2023 - The workshop "Building flexible sence of self" facilitated by Kateryna Solomianova-Kyrylchuk 
17/05/2023 - The webinar "The Hunger Spectrum: Demystifying Eating Disorders" facilitated by Olena Sushan
13/04/2023 - The meeting with dr. Janina Scarlet "How to overcome the war impact on the mental health with the help of Superhero therapy"
16/03/2023 - The workshop "How to setup behavioral goals" facilitated by Kateryna Solomianova-Kyrylchuk
03/03/2023 - The peer-intervision "ACT for narcistic clients" facilitated by Kateryna Solomianova-Kyrylchuk
23/02/2023 - The kick-off meeting

Venezuela Affiliate of ACBS - Grupo de Afiliación ACBS Venezuela

Affiliated 2022

Click here to join the Venezuela Affiliate

Contact Information:
Jhonnathan Sulbaran
Ricardo Cabrera

Description of Membership

We welcome all ACBS members from Venezuela.

Possible Activities:

• Peer Consultation Group
• Facebook Page

Western Balkans Affiliate of ACBS

Click here to join the Western Balkans Affiliate!

The Western Balkans Affiliate of ACBS is a group open to professionals from Western Balkans who are members of the Association for Contextual Behavioural Science (ACBS). We welcome clinicians and researchers of all levels of experience who share an enthusiasm for third wave approaches (ACT, CFT, DBT, FAP, etc). Together, we are working towards the development of an community in Western Balkans. Through this group, there are opportunities for networking, sharing resources and organising trainings and supervisions (including face-to-face or online supervisions).

The Western Balkans Affiliate of ACBS includes several countries *u kojim se priča naš jezik*: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro.

Please reach out to Professor Igor Krnetić training website www.centarzakbt.org or check out Facebook Group (Behavioral, Cognitive and Mindfulness Therapies in the Western Balkans - https://www.facebook.com/groups/kognitivno.bihejvioralna.terapija/) for the date and location of meetings, trainings, supervisions or to get more information about events.

For online group ACT & CFT supervision click here: https://contextualscience.org/search/node/%22Western%20Balkans%22%20%22online%20supervision%22

Affiliate Contacts: Mike Strand, PsyD; Claire Palmer, LPC

Email: michael.t.strand@gmail.com; clairepalmer@arrivecounseling.com

Click here to join the Austin, Texas Affiliate!

This newly formed ACBS Affiliate group will provide monthly ACT peer consultation, professional trainings, and opportunities for social connection and community building to interested ACBSers in Austin, TX, and the surrounding Central Texas region.

Each month, we will plan to meet for 1 hour of  peer consultation in Austin. After the meetings, you're invited to come hang out with us for some more casual, fun social activities (hiking the greenbelt, mindfulness walks, ziplining, axe throwing...or maybe just grabbing a bite to eat - we'll be open to possibilities and suggestions!)

We hope that you'll join us in creating something new - come connect and learn with your fellow ACBS members, and help us serve our local Austin and Central Texas communities!

Contacts:  Steve Bisgaier, Psy.D. and John Armando, LCSW

email: steve.bisgaier@gmail.com or john@eclipsetherapygroup.com

Click here to join the Delaware Valley Affiliate!

Please join our PA chapter affiliate by going to our Meetup.com page where we make anouncements about meetings, trainings, presentations, etc.:  

We currently have over 400 members of the Delaware Valley ACT Learners meetup.com to help us spread the word about our activities.  Join at: https://www.meetup.com/Delaware-Valley-Acceptance-Commitment-Therapy-Learners/

Back in 2014, at the ACBS World Conference in Minneapolis, a few of us spent time together discussing our interests in some of the following and decided to create an affiliate as a vehicle to our committed action:

1) Building a local community of ACBS members.  We define local as within (or to be inclusive, near) the Delaware Valley.  Generally we think of this as South Eastern PA (Philly area), South Jersey, and Northern Delaware.  There are no real boundaries though.  The affiliate is more a state of mind then a place.  The place is just where we imagine the activities happening.

2) Increasing opportunities for ACT, RFT, FAP, CFT, etc. training.  We have a number of well qualified trainers in our area, and we are also very interested in attracting some internationally recognized trainers to present full day or perhaps two day trainings.  

3) We have piloted a Portland Model Peer Consultation Group that has been meeting since September 2018.

4) Developing opportunties for expanded referrals for ACT (ACBS) clinicians and agencies.

5) Strong partnership with the Pennsylvania ACBS Chapter 

Please join our meetup.com:  https://www.meetup.com/Delaware-Valley-Acceptance-Commitment-Therapy-Learners/

Past workshops and events:

Using ACT and Affective Science to Address Shame and Self-Criticism (May 20, 2022)

Introduction to ACT (November 8, 2021)

Life After Trauma: Using ACT to Revitalize Interrupted Lives (May 22, 2021)
Robyn Walser

Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (November 15, 2020)
Kate Deatrich and Rachel Steen

Making a Meaningful Difference in the Room: Using Clinical Behavior Analysis to Enhance Experiential Training of Psychological Flexibility (May 21, 2020)
Emily K. Sandoz

Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (March 1, 2020)
Steve Bisgaier, Kate Deatrich, and Rachel Steen

ACT Video Training and Use of ACT Fidelity Measure (November 10, 2019)
Frank Masterpasqua

Treating OCD from an ACT/RFT Perspective (July 14, 2019)
Andy D'Amico

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Learning to Thrive (April 28, 2019) 
Lisa Coyne

Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (March 3, 2019)
Frank Masterpasqua

Video Training and Using RFT to Motivate Clients (July 15, 2019)
Andy D'Amico and Frank Masterpasqua

Getting to the Heart of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT): An Experiential (Re)Introduction (May 19, 2018)
Matthew Boone

Diagnostic and Treatment Implications in Lyme Disease & Chronic Illness: Utilizing an ACT Approach (March 10, 2018)
Joesph Trunzo

ACT: Introduction, Demonstration, Discussion (October 8, 2017)
Frank Masterpasqua

Relational Frame Theory: An Introduction and Role-Play (August 27, 2017)
Andrew J. D’Amico

ACT for Perfectionism (August 27, 2017)
Steven Bisgaier

An Introduction to Compassion Focused Therapy for ACT & CBT Practitioners (May 21, 2017)
Dennis Tirch

Practicing ACT and Bringing ACT into Practice (October 16, 2016)
John Armando

Using Relational Frame Theory to Activate ACT (July 31, 2016)
Andy D'Amico and Dina Harth

Integrating Mindfulness Acceptance Based Therapies (May 22, 2016)
James Herbert and Frank Masterpasqua

Midsummer Mindfulness Exercise workshop (July 19, 2015)
Andy D'Amico and Dina Harth

Demystifying ACT: Practical Applications of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (June 3, 2015)
Daniel Joseph Moran

Free Webinar Introduction to ACT (April 6, 2015)
Daniel Joseph Moran

Experiential Mindfulness and ACT workshop (February 22, 2015)
Yaacov Kravitz and Andrew J. D'Amico

ACT in Communities: Utilizing Prosocial Principles (November 23, 2014)
Steve Hayes
 

Thank you so much everyone!

Steering Committee:

John Armando, Andy D'Amico, Steve Bisgaier, Frank Masterpasqua, Alisa Kamis-Brinda, Yaacov Kravitz, Dina Harth, Rachel Steen, Lauren Johnson, Kate Deatrich, Joanna Chen, Erin Wolff
 

Georgia Affiliate of ACBS

Affiliated 2022

Click here to join the Georgia Affiliate

ACBS Georgia Affiliate Coordinators:

Amy House, Ph.D. and Aubrey Moore, Ph.D.

Contact us at:  ahouse@augusta.edu

LaMiss Affiliate of ACBS

Affiliated 2017

Click here to join the LaMiss Affiliate!

Join ACBS members who live in or have big love for the Louisiana-Mississippi (LaMiss) region for regular networking via our email list, along with biannual dissemination and training events. To get involved, make sure your ACBS membership is current, then email Emily Sandoz at emilykennison@gmail.com or Karen Kate Kellum at kkellum@olemiss.edu.

Southeast Michigan Affiliate of ACBS

Click here to join the Southeast Michigan Affiliate!

Affiliated 2018

Contact Information

Terence Broussard-Bnu
E-mail: terence@conflictresolutioninstitute.com

Deitra Covington
E-mail: deitra@conflictresolutioninstitute.com

We are hosting a series of workshops that focus on ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) to assist the participants with their clients.

Minnesota Northland Affiliate of ACBS (MN-ACBS)

Click here to join the Minnesota Northland Affiliate!

Affiliated 2021

Geographic boundaries of the Affiliate: Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Northern Iowa, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan 

Contact Information

You must be a member of ACBS to join the affiliate but there is no additional cost to join this group.

Click here to join the Albuquerque & Santa Fe, New Mexico Affiliate

Albuquerque & Santa Fe

Affiliated 2017

Contact Information

Rae Littlewood, PhD

E-mail: Rae.Littlewood@gmail.com

ABQ/SF - ACBS is a local community for those interested in learning more about ACT, third generation CBT, contextual behavioral science (CBS), and other acceptance/mindfulness informed psychotherapies (ACT, DBT, MBSR, FAP, CFT, MBCT, etc). The purpose of ABQ/SF - ACBS is to keep affiliates informed about local events and/or if you so choose, to become more involved in the ACT & CBS community, by hosting or attending local ACT & related workshops, study groups, training, and networking opportunities within the third generation CBT and more generally the evidence based psychotherapy community.

ABQ/SF - ACBS is a local affiliate of the international organization ACBS, (Association for Contextual Behavioral Science). A New Mexico chapter does not yet exist but hopefully as the community comes together and grows, forming a chapter for New Mexico is a next step. While ABQ/SF - ACBS membership is free, affiliates are required to be a current member of the international ACBS organization (dues are value based, which means you pay what you can afford given the value of what you receive, one time per year). The ACBS website is an awesome resource. There are many free ACT related resources, from assessments and worksheets for clinical practice, to audio/video resources for training or clinical use, and published materials related to theory and evidence for ACT efficacy.

Community Gatherings for the ACBS (Association of Contextual and Behavioral Science) Affiliate in Albuquerque & Santa Fe: There are currently no plans for in-person meetings. 

Long Island Affiliate of ACBS (LI-ACBS)

Affiliated 2015

Contact Information

Contact Person:  Mark Sisti, PhD

Email:  Sisticbt@optonline.net

If you live in and around Long Island NY and are curious about and/or  interested in advancing your knowledge about ACT & CBS drop us a line.

For more information click on the child page on the link directly here and below.

Also be sure to join our LI-ACBS facebook group

Rochester Affiliate of ACBS (ROC ACT)

Affiliated 2022

Click here to join the Rochester, NY Affiliate

Contact Information:
Janette Funk
Mike Morde

Description of Membership

We welcome all ACBS members from Western New York (Including the Rochester, Buffalo, and Syracuse regions).

Possible Activities:

• Peer Consultation Group
• Presentations about ACT and CBS

North Carolina & South Carolina Affiliate of ACBS (ACT Carolinas)

Affiliated 2014

Click Here to Join the North Carolina & South Carolina Affiliate!

Contact Information

Holly Yates or Matt Case
actcarolinas@gmail.com

ACT Carolinas — an affiliate the Mid-Atlantic Chapter — is an evolving collection of ACT-oriented therapists and trainers in North and South Carolina. We host a list serve where clinicians consult about ACT-related issues and give updates and sponsor area trainings and events. Please search for “ACTCarolinas” in google groups and request to join. For other questions you can contact Holly Yates.

Click Here to Join the USA - Pennsylvania - ACT in Erie Affiliate!

The intention of this group is to promote connecting local individuals in the Erie, PA area interested in ACT. The puprpose will be to develop opportunities for peer supervision group(s), coordinating trainers and speakers, and further development utilizing the RFT/ACT model. Creating and fostering a supportive context of learning to bring fourth into the local community practitioners with a focus of implementing ACT/RFT.  The hope is to have a wide range of disciplines and interests within the group as possible, starting from the ground up.The ACBS Affiliate program is intended to allow ACBS members to self-organize at the local level. 

Contact should be directed to:        Tom Wellington, L.P.C.        (814)392-7962 / twellington@mac.com