Lou Lasprugato is a psychotherapist and internationally recognized trainer in the field of psychology. He is a Peer-Reviewed Trainer in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS), for which he also served as Chair of the Training Committee from 2022-2025. In 2025, Lou was elected into the ACBS Fellowship for his contributions in ACT dissemination. Lou is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, with private practices in both California and Virginia (United States), working with individuals and couples. He has worked as a psychotherapist in a variety of settings, including county-operated crisis intervention services with underserved populations; a mental health and substance abuse intensive outpatient program at Kaiser Permanente that he subsequently managed; and an integrative medicine program at Sutter Health. Lou has taught mindfulness meditation to health care practitioners and facilitated nearly one hundred training events on ACT and clinically-applied relational frame theory (RFT), as well as co-created courses on nutritional psychology and integrative mental health treatment. Lou has also provided supervision to other behavioral/mental health professionals and students and continues to provide individual and group consultation on ACT and other contextual behavioral approaches. He earned his Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, with a specialization in Holistic Studies from Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, following a career as a professional musician.
The Brazilian chapter's ACT SIG created the Entre Pares Project to support the Brazilian community on its path to becoming Peer-Reviewed ACT Trainers. 💡 And to kick off this journey in the best possible way, we’re hosting the very first event of this new project — and, as a bonus, the first international event of the SIG ACT!
đź“… Saturday, August 23, at 11 AM (BRT)
đź’» Online via Google Meet
🌍 With simultaneous Portuguese translation
⏳ 1-hour duration
This edition’s topic is "Understanding Functional Contextualism", with Lou Lasprugato, a psychotherapist with extensive experience in ACT and Chair of the ACBS Training Committee.
In addition to being an expert on the topic, Lou is one of the reviewers in the Peer-Reviewed ACT Trainer process. In other words: we’ll be learning about one of the required essays in this process directly from someone who reads and evaluates it. 📚✨
This event is open to the Brazilian ACBS community. To register or for more information:
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