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Lou Lasprugato, MFT, 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 to 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 both individuals, including college students, and couples. He also has extensive experience in facilitating skill-building and process-based groups. Lou specializes in therapy for intimate partners and the treatment of anxiety disorders, and is a member of the International OCD Foundation.
Lou is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, with private practices in both California and Virginia (United States), working with both individuals, including college students, and couples. He also has extensive experience in facilitating skill-building and process-based groups. Lou specializes in therapy for intimate partners and the treatment of anxiety disorders, and is a member of the International OCD Foundation.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) has been extensively studied and utilized as an individual form of therapy, while its application to couples therapy has been somewhat limited to a few publications and a small but growing body of promising research. ACT's model of psychological flexibility, when extended interpersonally, can offer a unique lens for case conceptualization and functional analysis when examining patterns of interaction between intimate partners.
What's more, yearnings—deep, enduring longings or psychological needs, which are a recent addition to ACT's theoretical base—are often the primary motivators influencing one or both partners seeking therapy. Individual and interpersonal yearnings compete for attention within relationships as partners attempt to satisfy them in unworkable (values-incongruent) ways that create conflict, tension, and disconnection.
This workshop will introduce a reimagined ACT Hexaflex that situates yearnings as a core functional feature of an interpersonal psychological flexibility model. Participants will have a chance to experience the psychological flexibility process extended interpersonally through dyadic work and to analyze the function of yearnings within a couples therapy vignette.
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Online/Virtual
Yes
Language
English
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Custom/Single Event