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Women Rising
by Robyn D. Walser, PhD
Therapists have an important role to play in supporting women’s well-being, not just as a matter of promoting individual growth, but in working toward a world where more people are empowered to live their fullest lives.
ACT is a useful tool in this work. Its unique framework and set of core processes support a contextual understanding of human struggles and the development of flexible skills that help people to move forward even in the face of adversity.
This workshop, led by internationally renowned ACT expert Robyn D. Walser, uses experiential and didactic ACT-based methods for working with women, giving you an understanding how the core processes can best support them in rising to meet today’s challenges.
By using a functional contextual lens to understand client struggles and centering psychological flexibility skills in therapeutic work, clinicians can empower women to take more ownership over the direction of their lives.
In Women Rising, you’ll develop an empowered, ACT-based approach to addressing women’s issues and supporting women’s well-being across all areas of their lives.
You’ll learn how to bring systemic issues into your case conceptualizations to better understand the entire context impacting women’s mental and emotional states.
With this foundation, you’ll be equipped to destigmatize women’s experiences of struggle and help them move forward in a way that’s courageous, empowered, and led by their own values rather than societal rules or expectations.
The perspective and tools you’ll gain in this 4-session live online course will allow you:
- Deepen your understanding of mental health symptoms (especially anxiety and depression) as they relate to women and women’s issues
- Help women gain more ownership over the direction of their lives and how they want to show up in the world
- Build psychological flexibility skills for noticing when their identities and actions have been shaped by outside sources and pivoting toward their own deeply held values
- Empower women to use their voices, trust themselves, and act from a place of courage rather than fear—while always supporting their safety within their contexts
- Support a brighter vision of the future guided by personal agency, social progress, and values-based living for all members of society
This course offers 8 CE hours and is held in weekly sessions over Zoom. Recordings will be available.
You’ll walk away feeling personally and professionally empowered to work from a heightened level of understanding, allyship, and profound humanity to advocate for women and support their agency and well-being.