Enhancing Exposure with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
 

Discover how to integrate Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Exposure effectively, coherently and efficiently.

21st & 28th January 2025 from 13:00 to 16:30 GMT (6 hours CPD).

Course Description

Do you enjoy supporting clients suffering from chronic anxiety problems that include panic, OCD, phobias, and excessive worry?

Are you hoping to become a more powerful ACT Therapist?

Increasingly, therapists, practitioners and researchers are recognising that working with the different parts of ourselves is as an effective way to improve how we relate to our Self. Approaches such as internal family systems (IFS) have emphasised the importance of 'parts work'. When parts are more clearly differentiated, we can learn to integrate the sometimes conflicting and sometimes harmonious interests, desires and yearnings they reflect to become more psychologically flexible.

Emotions are our primary motivational system, influencing the 35,000 moments of choice we encounter every day. The way we process and respond to our emotions plays a key role in shaping our decision-making and behaviours. When clients lack emotional efficacy, they end up stuck in a trance of reactivity that can lead them away from what they care about and how they want to show up, personally and professionally. Instead of designing their actions based on what matters most, they are at the effect of automatic default reactions.

Problematic procrastination is a common issue in therapy, with far-reaching consequences for clients' careers, studies, friendships, and overall well-being. However, there is hope. Procrastination is a learned behaviour, not an inherent trait, and therefore can be managed efficiently with the right support.

Language changes everything. From infancy through adulthood, language influences and dominates our sense of self, our choices, our opportunities, our relationships, our communities, our societies - the cultures that shape us all. Language is an inescapable part of what makes us human, what allows for us to act with meaning and purpose and also what brings us suffering.

If you have an interest in chairwork, already possess knowledge or experience with it in your practice, and desire to further develop your skills, this intermediate-level workshop is tailor-made for you. Chairwork is a powerful therapeutic action method approach that uses space, movement, and drama to bring about change. Join our workshop leaders as they dive into key areas, including utilising chairwork for emotional processing, enhancing values work, and expanding perspective taking. Discover effective methods to bring your therapy sessions to life and truly engage your clients.

This is an in-person workshop, taking place in central London

Every day, around the globe, depression and anxiety shatter the lives of millions

But you have the power to make a difference …

Do you want to help your clients find rapid relief from suffering? And go on to build richer, fuller lives?

If so, this 2-day advanced level workshop is for you. You’ll go deeper into the ACT model, take your skills to the next level, and learn specific methods for depression and anxiety disorders.

If you’re a health psychologist, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, doctor, or coach who works with individuals with chronic physical health conditions, you know first-hand the challenges that people with a long-term physical health condition, or chronic illness face. Living with a chronic illness can impact nearly every aspect of a person’s life, from their relationships and job to their finances and overall wellbeing.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: 

Two-day Introductory Level Skills Intensive

Level: Introductory to Intermediate

CPD Value: 16 hours

Fee: £295

Location: This training will take place at our premises in Islington, London.

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