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Help Clients Embrace Change and Lean Into Life
4 weekly live online sessions starting September 8 | 8 CE hours
Just as in the client’s life, depression can seem like an overpowering force in therapy.
Clients are often stuck in rigid stories about their struggle and how it has come to define them. Values assessments only make them feel worse. Their lack of motivation keeps them immobilized, frozen.
For ACT clinicians, loosening up any psychological flexibility can seem like a losing battle…
But with a creative and functional approach, something else becomes possible.
That’s precisely what this course will cover.
Over the course of 4 weeks, author and master trainer Dr. Robyn D. Walser will teach you to pinpoint the function of depression-related behavior as well as opportunities to constructively explore both positive and negative aspects of experience in a way that promotes psychological flexibility. You’ll also learn how to create tailor-made, at times unconventional, ACT interventions to help clients experiencing depression embrace change and reengage in life.
As a result, you’ll be better equipped to:
- Foster energetic, collaborative, and active sessions, which will carry over into the client’s life
- Speak to each individual’s deep-seated fear and needs by understanding how depression and related behaviors function
- Break through fused stories related to the depression as well as rigid identities that become entangled with those stories
- Build momentum and fuel action even when a client is severely unmotivated or feels that “nothing matters”
- Broaden the client’s flexibility and sense of possibility in part by cultivating curiosity about experiences beyond suffering
- Help clients access a sense of meaning, even when positive feelings are elusive