Therapists often struggle to bridge the gap between theory and practice when applying process-based therapies. Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) offers a powerful framework for deepening client change by using the therapeutic relationship as a natural context for transformation. Through moment-to-moment functional analysis, therapists can recognize and respond contingently to clients’ clinically relevant behaviors, fostering emotional depth, interpersonal growth, and meaningful behavior change.
In this interactive workshop, you will learn how to apply FAP’s core principles to enhance your therapeutic effectiveness across modalities, including ACT and CBT. You will explore how to integrate ACT’s Hexaflex with FAP’s approach to relational learning, helping clients move toward their values in real time. The workshop will close with a structured framework for applying FAP skills in practice, strengthening the therapist-client connection, and cultivating profound therapeutic change.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Identify your own therapist avoidance repertoires and explain how the contexts in which commonly used interventions may be inadvertently counter-therapeutic.
Describe ways to augment the therapeutic relationship - and the therapist repertoire - to evoke behavioral change and as a natural reinforcer to shape behavioral change.
Describe how FAP can translate ACT's formulation of a client's intra-personal behaviors into interpersonal clinical targets for change.
CONTINUING EDUCATION (CE) INFORMATION
2 CEs for licensed psychologists PENDING APPROVAL
Some state counseling boards and social work boards, will accept APA type CEs, depending on the state (some will allow only a certain percentage to be APA ). Please check with the appropriate state agencies in your area to see if these APA credits may work for this event.
Must attend the LIVE course in its entirety in order to receive 2 CE credits. No exceptions!
CEs are awarded contingent upon timely post-event paperwork submission by event organizers.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, behavior analysts, coaches, students (under supervision), and other mental health professionals who would like to learn how to help neurodiverse clients.
SKILL LEVEL
Introductory to Intermediate
ABOUT THE TRAINER
Tien Kuei, MSc, is a certified Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) trainer and therapist, as well as the founding trustee and CEO of the Power to Live Foundation, a mental health charity specializing in behavioral treatments. With a strong background in process-based therapies, Tien integrates Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help therapists enhance their clinical precision and deepen therapeutic change. She regularly trains volunteer therapists in ACT and FAP, leading biannual workshops and presenting at ACBS conferences worldwide. Tien’s approach emphasizes moment-to-moment relational functional analysis, helping clinicians apply FAP principles within ACT’s Hexaflex model to foster meaningful client growth. She is currently working toward ACT Peer-Reviewed Trainer status and remains dedicated to advancing evidence-based, process-driven psychotherapy.