Treating Depression with ACT: Help Clients Embrace Change and Lean Into Life
4-Session Live Online Course | Tuesdays, starting March 5, 2024
8 CE Hours Available
Join this 4-session live online course to learn how to use ACT with depressed clients to unlock new possibilities and change in your work.
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
You’ll leave this training with a renewed sense of direction in your interactions with depressed clients and armed with tools for helping clients explore meaningful paths forward, even in the face of pain.