Trauma-Focused ACT: Working With Body, Mind and Emotion
Dates and Location of this IN-PERSON 2-Day Workshop:
IN-PERSON at the Sheraton, New Orleans
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
CE credits available: 13
Workshop Leaders:
Russ Harris, M.B.B.S.
Workshop Description:
Trauma-Focused ACT (TFACT) is a flexible, comprehensive approach model for treating the entire spectrum of trauma-related issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), addiction, depression, anxiety disorders, moral injury, chronic pain, shame, suicidality, insomnia, complicated grief, attachment issues, sexual problems, and more. TFACT is a compassion-based, exposure-centred approach, which incorporates cutting-edge strategies for healing the past, living in the present, and building a new future. You’ll learn how to help your clients:
Find safety and security in their bodies
Overcome hyperarousal and hypoarousal
Break free from dissociation
Shift from self-hatred to self-compassion
Rapidly ground themselves and reengage in life
Unhook from difficult cognitions and emotions
Develop an integrated sense of self
Resolve traumatic memories through “inner child” work and flexible exposure
Connect with and live by their values, and engage fully in life here and now
Experience post-traumatic growth
About the Workshop Leader:
- Dr Russ Harris, M.B.B.S.
Dr Russ Harris, M.B.B.S., is a physician and psychotherapist, working in private practice in Melbourne, Australia. He graduated in medicine from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, in 1989, and emigrated to Australia in 1991. Working as a GP (family doctor), he became increasingly interested in the psychological aspects of health and wellbeing, and increasingly disenchanted with writing prescriptions. Ultimately this interest led to a career change – from medical practitioner to therapist.
Russ is a world-acclaimed ACT trainer and author. Since 2005, he has run over 800 two-day ACT workshops, and has provided ACT training in person or online for over 80,000 health professionals. He has authored four ACT textbooks (ACT Made Simple, Trauma Focused ACT, Getting Unstuck in ACT, ACT Questions & Answers), and six ACT-based self-help books. His best-known book, The Happiness Trap, has sold over one million copies worldwide, with translations into over 30 languages.
He proudly proclaims each workshop a ‘jargon-free zone’ – and bases his training on three core values: simplicity, clarity, and having fun. Participants regularly report not only major improvements in their therapy, but also in their personal lives – and evaluation forms frequently praise his ability to make complex ideas simple.
Following this workshop participants will be able to:
1. Discuss the basic neuroscience of trauma in simple terms that clients can easily understand.
2. Apply the principles of 'trauma-sensitive mindfulness' to safely modify previously-trained mindfulness interventions
3. Apply ACT methods to work with dissociative state, hyperarousal, and hypoarousal
4. Integrate ACT with attachment theory and Polyvagal theory
5. Understand the 'window of flexibility', how it differs from the popular 'window of tolerance', and how it can guide TFACT interventions
6. Apply ACT principles to work with traumatic memories and flashbacks.
7. Utilize ACT techniques to assist clients with emotion dysregulation.
8. Use ACT principles to design and implement values-guided, compassion-based exposure-based interventions
9. Use the 'choice point' tool flexibly, to guide sessions, set goals, do brief functional analysis, or guide exposure
10. Apply ACT methods for overcoming shame and fostering self-compassion
Target audience: Intermediate, Advanced
Components: Experiential exercises, Didactic presentation, Case presentation, Role play, Videos of therapy sessions
Topic Areas: Clinical, Behavioral medicine
Package Includes: A general certificate of attendance
CEs Available (13 hours): CEs for Psychologists