Praxis CET

In his new post on our blog, Lou Lasprugato, MFT, uses the lens of acceptance and commitment therapy to explore the deep-seated needs — both psychological and attachment-based — that underly so many of these cyclical conflicts that bring couples to therapy.

Read it here: https://www.praxiscet.com/posts/act-for-couples-therapy

This fall, Lasprugato will teach InterACT with Couples, a 12-hour course on applying acceptance and commitment therapy to work with intimate partners.

In the training, you’ll learn the groundbreaking InterACT model — a reimagining of the ACT hexaflex that extends psychological flexibility processes interpersonally.

We're welcoming back Dr. Jennifer Shepard Payne for another live online course this fall! In this training, you'll learn a framework based on acceptance and commitment therapy that's adapted to the needs of Black Americans. Read Dr. Payne's blog post describing why this framework is so critical to mental health work here: https://www.newharbinger.com/blog/professional/african-american-mental-health-treatment-stigma-how-act-can-help

Attention mental health professionals and ACT practitioners! Praxis CET is holding a Focused ACT (FACT) Summer Intensive from September 9-13 in Tacoma, WA.

Join us for 5 days of targeted instruction and immersive practice alongside peers and premier ACT experts Dr. Kirk Strosahl, Dr. Patti Robinson, and Thomas Gustavsson, MSC.

At this retreat-style training, you’ll benefit from:
- A group size limited to just 60 people so you can make meaningful connections and bring your fullest self to the experience
- Personalized coaching from world-class ACT experts
- Immersive learning sessions designed around hours and hours of hands-on training and regular feedback to hone your skills
- Daily yoga sessions to clear your mind and restore your body before and after training
- Opportunities to enjoy the beautiful waterfront neighborhood at Point Ruston in Tacoma just outside the venue

And you’ll earn up to 30 CE hours in the process.

At the end of the 5 days, you’ll feel refreshed, connected, and exponentially more confident in your ability to briefly and effectively address a wide range of client challenges using FACT.

Claim your spot at the FACT Summer Intensive here: https://www.praxiscet.com/fact-summer-intensive-signup.

Here’s what clinicians have said about our on-demand trainings:

“Very few courses have had such an impact on my work and even fewer on my personal life. Highly recommended!” — Eugen S., Psychotherapist

“This course was extremely helpful, and each module gave me tools I could immediately apply to my work with clients.” — Maryam K., MA, LPCC

“One of the best courses I've taken.” — Sylvie P., Marriage and Family Therapist

Thousands of clinicians have benefited from the high-quality learning experiences offered by this line of training. And we hope you’ll be next!

Don’t miss this chance to save 20% on registration when you join an on-demand course before 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

Find your next course and enroll before the clock runs out: https://www.praxiscet.com/our-courses

In case you missed it, we're offering a special enrollment opportunity in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month:

Save 20% on registration for any on-demand course when you join by May 28 at midnight EDT!

Choose from a selection of premium-quality training and gain evidence-based tools and confidence in a new area:

Learn the fundamentals of acceptance and commitment therapy in 4 weeks and start using them right away in your practice. Or take a deep dive into the ACT model with its originator, Dr. Steven C. Hayes.

Learn how to use acceptance and commitment training within your scope of practice as a behavior analyst.

Discover the engaging and accessible DNA-V model — which is based on ACT, developmental science, and positive psychology — and how it can help teens and young adults develop critical skills.

Explore different facets of the psychological flexibility model to make values and self-as-context more integrated and powerful parts of your work.

Or learn how to most effectively apply ACT to different therapeutic challenges, like trauma and anxiety disorders.

Whatever your professional goals are, find the on-demand course that’s right for you here: https://www.praxiscet.com/our-courses/

It’s Mental Health Awareness Month! In support, we have a special offer for our community:

Between now and May 28, save 20% on registration when you join any Praxis on-demand course.

This is a great opportunity to get top-of-the-line training from premier experts in the mental health field, like Steven C. Hayes, Kelly G. Wilson, and Robyn D. Walser. The content in these courses is carefully developed to bring you the highest quality learning experience and tools you can use right away in your practice. And they come with lifetime access, so you can revisit key lessons or download favorite exercises long after you’ve completed a course.

Find your next on-demand course here: https://www.praxiscet.com/our-courses/

Thank you for being part of our amazing mental health community! We’re proud to support the important work you do.

Today is the last day!

We’re nearing the final hours of our special enrollment offer for ACT Immersion or ACT in Practice:

Join either of these fantastic on-demand courses to learn acceptance and commitment therapy from the model’s originator, Dr. Steven C. Hayes, and we’ll send you a free digital copy of Learning Process-Based Therapy.

This book is a groundbreaking work about the shift from standard protocols to processes of change and even more person-centered work.

Inside, you'll find a road map to the theoretical foundations of process-based therapy, including how it can build bridges between different models, and techniques for customizing treatments to the needs of each client.

This material is a perfect addition to either ACT Immersion or ACT in Practice, in which Dr. Hayes will personally guide you in using ACT as a process-based therapy to target lasting positive change.

Take a deep dive into acceptance and commitment therapy and learn how to identify and target the core psychological flexibility processes — join ACT Immersion here:

https://www.praxiscet.com/act-immersion-evergreen-signup/

Or work toward next-level ACT application and gain new practical tools to enhance your person-centered approach — join ACT in Practice here:

https://www.praxiscet.com/act-in-practice-evergreen-signup/

This offer ends tonight, May 15, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

**No promo code required. We’ll send the book to your inbox via email after signup.**

Want to deepen and empower your work in acceptance and commitment therapy?

In 'ACT in Practice', Dr. Steven C. Hayes teaches cutting-edge tools for case conceptualization and treatment planning using the hexaflex.

https://www.praxiscet.com/act-in-practice-evergreen-signup

This will allow you to map psychological flexibility processes onto client case features to more effectively identify inflexible patterns, form targeted interventions, and create new hypotheses if needed.

Rather than thinking one move at a time, you’ll be better able to visualize a therapeutic path to unlocking transformation.

Sign up before May 15 to get an extra enrollment bonus:

Learning Process-Based Therapy is a groundbreaking book that explores the shift of the mental health field toward empirically established processes of change. You’ll explore the theory and learn techniques for customizing person-centered treatment.

**No code required. We’ll send the book to your inbox via email after signup.**

Build your foundation in acceptance and commitment therapy with the model’s originator, Dr. Steven C. Hayes.

In ACT Immersion, you will personally experience the impact of the psychological flexibility processes, explore the basis of the ACT model, and see Dr. Hayes demonstrate techniques firsthand. https://www.praxiscet.com/act-immersion-evergreen-signup

You’ll then learn to “read” these processes in your work with clients and target them with a wide range of exercises.

This course will be a great fit if you want to build a solid foundation in ACT from the ground up so you can see beyond symptoms and understand the processes that underlie clients’ struggles.

Until May 15, get an extra enrollment bonus when you join this on-demand course!

Learning Process-Based Therapy is a groundbreaking book that explores the shift of the mental health field toward empirically established processes of change. You’ll explore the theory and learn techniques for customizing person-centered treatment.

**No code required. We’ll send a PDF of the book to your email after signup.**

Treating Unwanted Thoughts and Intense Emotions is a new live online course that will teach you to implement dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for intense emotions and CBT for unwanted thoughts — particularly exposure and response prevention (ERP) — in a flexible and integrated way.

Learn more here: https://www.praxiscet.com/events/treating-unwanted-thoughts-emotions-may-2024/

There are many benefits to a multi-pronged therapeutic approach:

First, you can more easily troubleshoot when you get stuck.

Sometimes protocols work well on their own. But when they don’t, having another lens to help you flexibly analyze and address the challenge can keep you and the client moving forward.

Your tools can complement one another.

Many clinicians dread doing exposure with clients because they purposefully illicit distress and can even lead to overwhelm. But what if you had a way of helping clients manage distress so they can stay present and focused? That’s a different — and often more effective — intervention.

Clients feel more seen.

Clients can sense when you view them as whole, complex beings with nuanced needs and adjust your approach accordingly rather than sticking to a certain protocol no matter what. That helps build greater understanding and trust.

Join us and learn how to combine DBT and CBT for a powerful approach to difficult internal experiences! Sessions start May 13 and 8 CE hours are available.

An innovative therapeutic model that harnesses the power of both compassion and psychological flexibility to transform clients’ lives.

That’s what you’ll learn in Compassion-Focused ACT, beginning May 13! Join the founders of this new model for an enlightening 8-week course:
https://www.praxiscet.com/events/compassion-focused-act-may-2024/

Compassion-focused therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy come from different scientific backgrounds, but their overlap is striking.

Consider this:
You can hardly work on self-as-context or defusion without activating an observer sense of self that is nonjudgmental, and, therefore, more readily compassionate.
And you can’t work on compassion without honing skills that are central to psychological flexibility, like perspective taking, mindfulness, and acceptance.
Knowing how to purposefully tap into both models and integrate the tools they offer is to the great benefit of therapists as well as the people they serve…
And in this workshop involving scientific rigor, interpersonal authenticity, and experiential practices, you’ll explore how to successfully integrate them to awaken “compassionate flexibility” for both you and your clients.

Click the link to learn more and save your spot!

If you want to learn acceptance and commitment therapy from Dr. Steven C. Hayes, now is a great time to join ACT Immersion or ACT in Practice!

Sign up for either on-demand course by May 15 and you’ll also receive a digital copy of the groundbreaking book Learning Process-Based Therapy.

Written by Dr. Hayes alongside Dr. Stefan Hofmann and David Lorscheid, the book explores the mental health field’s shift toward empirically established processes of change.

Inside, you'll find a road map to the theoretical foundations of process-based therapy, including how it can build bridges between different models, and techniques for customizing treatments to the needs of each client.

This book is the perfect companion to what you’ll learn in either of these on-demand courses, which bring the theory of process-based therapy fully to life through engaging video instruction, practical exercises, and numerous clinical demonstrations by Dr. Hayes himself.

Click here to learn more about ACT Immersion, Dr. Hayes’ deep-diving introduction to acceptance and commitment therapy:
https://www.praxiscet.com/act-immersion-evergreen-signup/

To learn about ACT in Practice, a course for more experienced ACT practitioners who want to learn new process-based tools for targeting psychological flexibility, click here:
https://www.praxiscet.com/act-in-practice-evergreen-signup/

We hope you’ll take this opportunity to journey into ACT with Dr. Hayes!

Offer ends May 15 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

**No promo code required. We’ll send the book to your inbox via email after signup.**

One more week until New Harbinger Publication's Evidence-Based Podcast starts its 5th season! In the meantime, enjoy this interview with Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, from season 1. Subscribe today!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4DBQiH5JdETvCIZr37RYuf?si=603784ee207f4262

Hours of hands-on practice.

Coaching from world-class experts.

Daily yoga sessions.

Lasting connections with like-minded professionals.

The FACT Summer Intensive has so much to offer and will leave you feeling refreshed, connected, and confident.

Space is limited to 60 trainees to help facilitate supervision, so save your spot here:
https://www.praxiscet.com/fact-summer-intensive-signup/

At this unforgettable 5-day event, you’ll get the “fluency” training you need to build skills quickly and translate your knowledge of focused acceptance and commitment therapy into real-world impact.

Didactic instruction will be limited and targeted, designed to lay a foundation for extensive practice under the supervision of Dr. Kirk Strosahl, Dr. Patti Robinson, and Thomas Gustavsson, MSC.

You’ll also be invited to join beginner-friendly yoga sessions led by Dr. Robinson before and after each day of training to restore your body and mind.

And, thanks to the small group size, you’ll enjoy an exceptionally welcoming community environment that makes practice fun and promotes meaningful connections.

Save your place and take advantage of early bird rates while they last!

Sign up here:
https://www.praxiscet.com/fact-summer-intensive-signup/

An innovative therapeutic model that harnesses the power of both compassion and psychological flexibility to transform clients’ lives:

That’s what you’ll learn in Compassion-Focused ACT, beginning May 13.

Join the founders of this new model for an enlightening 8-week course:
https://www.praxiscet.com/events/compassion-focused-act-may-2024/

Compassion-focused therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy come from different scientific backgrounds, but their overlap is striking.

Consider this:

You can hardly work on self-as-context or defusion without activating an observer sense of self that is nonjudgmental, and, therefore, more readily compassionate.

And you can’t work on compassion without honing skills that are central to psychological flexibility, like perspective taking, mindfulness, and acceptance.

Knowing how to purposefully tap into both models and integrate the tools they offer is to the great benefit of therapists as well as the people they serve…

And in this workshop involving scientific rigor, interpersonal authenticity, and experiential practices, you’ll learn a model for successfully integrating them to awaken “compassionate flexibility” for both you and your clients.

Click the link to learn more and save your spot!

Starting May 7! Join us to learn a compassionate and vibrant therapeutic approach to loss.

This can be a tricky topic for clinicians. So much of our cultural learning tells us to steer clear of this content or help someone see the “bright” side…

But what if instead there were a validating way to reconnect someone with their experience — so they can contact not just pain but the many opportunities to live out their values that exist in each day?

In ACT for Grief and End-of-Life, psychologist and peer-reviewed trainer Dr. Jennifer Gregg will guide you in an uplifting therapeutic approach using acceptance and commitment therapy.

You’ll come out with a clear sense of how to teach ACT skills in the context of loss while respecting clients’ boundaries and building even stronger therapeutic relationships.

And you’ll see how you and your client can bravely navigate loss, work on coping skills, and support values-based action.

https://www.praxiscet.com/events/act-for-grief-and-end-of-life-may-2024/

ACT for Grief and End-of-Life | Praxis Continuing Education and Training Clients facing loss often become unmoored from the present moment — and from opportunities to truly engage in life as it unfolds each day. In this course, you’ll learn an uplifting approach based in acceptance and commitment therapy to build clients’ psychological flexibility so they can recon...

Want to make your ACT practice more fluid, authentic, and effective — and earn 13 CE hours in the process?

Save your spot at our 2-day workshop Practice the Heart of ACT here: https://www.praxiscet.com/events/heart-of-act-san-diego/

This training is led by master acceptance and commitment therapy trainer Dr. Robyn D. Walser, who will help you develop a deeper understanding of the model and how to apply it fluently and effectively.

You and your peers will benefit from expert guidance, experiential exercises, and demonstrations designed to build your competency in the entire ACT model and hone your fluidity in shaping psychological flexibility.

This workshop is coming up quickly, so register today!

For medical professionals and mental health practitioners looking for a compassionate and flexible approach to chronic pain treatment:

Working With Acceptance, Mindfulness, and Values in Chronic Pain starts April 17!

Inside, you’ll learn how to teach psychological flexibility skills to help clients expand beyond their pain and build meaningful lives.

Over the 6 sessions led by Dr. Kevin Vowles, you’ll discover:

A compassionate approach for refocusing treatment on living well in the here and now, rather than fixating on an imagined, pain-free future
How pain functions in the context of the 6 psychological flexibility processes
Acceptance and mindfulness interventions that allow clients to relate differently to pain
Skills to help clients expand beyond their pain and engage in meaningful activities
Adaptable treatment strategies that meet the specific needs of your client

Click here to find out more and sign up:

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Want to combine the best of compassion-focused therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy?

Learn an innovative model in our new online course:
https://www.praxiscet.com/events/compassion-focused-act-may-2024/

Did you know that compassion affects every aspect of your well-being, from physical health to mental and emotional resilience?

And, despite a common misconception, it’s not just about kindness — it's about being able to confront suffering and take meaningful action in the face of it.

This makes it a natural fit with acceptance and commitment therapy, and knowing how to use both can be extraordinarily beneficial to clinicians as well as their clients.

In our new 8-week online course, internationally renowned experts Dr. Dennis Tirch and Dr. Laura Silberstein-Tirch will teach you a groundbreaking integration of compassion-focused therapy and ACT.

You’ll discover how compassion and psychological flexibility go hand in hand and how to weave them together to empower your clients to overcome obstacles and live with intention.

This workshop offers 16 CE hours, is perfect for both new and seasoned practitioners, and offers an opportunity for profound personal and professional growth!

Click below to learn more and join us for this enlightening journey:

https://www.praxiscet.com/events/compassion-focused-act-may-2024/

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If you’re interested in focused acceptance and commitment therapy and want hours of hands-on practice with a small group of peers, check out the FACT Summer Intensive:

https://www.praxiscet.com/fact-summer-intensive-signup/

This retreat-style training offers a premium learning experience that prioritizes practice as well as restorative elements like morning and evening yoga sessions and a small cohort size for a warm community feel.

It also comes with the opportunity to learn from world-class experts and founders of the FACT model Dr. Kirk Strosahl, Dr. Patti Robinson, and Thomas Gustavsson, MSC.

You’ll find that you can dig into practice like never before, experiment with the FACT tools, and come out feeling much more fluent and confident.

Join us on the shores of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, September 9–13 for an unforgettable training experience.

Space is limited, so don’t wait to sign up!

FACT Summer Intensive | In-person training in focused ACT Build fluency in focused acceptance and commitment therapy with 5 days of hands-on, retreat-style training.

When clients’ struggles stem from both troubling cognitions and difficult emotions, clinicians need a way of flexibly weaving together interventions that address each side of the issue.

Learn how in our new live online course: https://www.praxiscet.com/events/treating-unwanted-thoughts-emotions-may-2024/

Treating Unwanted Thoughts and Intense Emotions begins May 13 and offers 8 CE hours.

Inside, you’ll learn to implement exposure and response prevention (ERP) and other CBT interventions for unwanted thoughts and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) for intense emotions in a way that’s integrated and effective.

The trainers, Blaise Aguirre, MD, and Jon Hershfield, MFT, are renowned clinicians and authors who bring expertise, humor, and profound compassion to the material.

Over 4 sessions, they’ll highlight the core tenets of DBT and exposure-based behavioral approaches, as well as how to pull DBT skills into exposure interventions, and how clinicians can distinguish between effective coping tools for feelings and avoidance strategies.

You’ll learn how to see through multiple “lenses” in therapy so you can more readily address both thoughts and emotions to help clients stick with difficult things when needed and learn adaptive coping strategies.

All of this will help you work more skillfully with complex clients and respond more fluidly to the needs of the moment.

Head to the link to learn more and enroll!

New blog post is up! If your work involves helping youth of color thrive, be sure to check it out:

https://www.praxiscet.com/posts/exploring-the-beats-of-race-based-stress-with-young-people-of-color/

In this post by the knowledgeable Dr. Ryan DeLapp, you’ll read two examples of race-based stress and learn about a therapeutic tool that can help structure useful conversations around this issue.

Using this tool, known as “the BEAT,” you can help young people identify how this kind of stress impacts them — and what they need in order to heal.

We’re delighted to be hosting a new live online training led by Dr. DeLapp starting April 8:

In Supporting Young People of Color, you’ll learn an effective and highly practical framework for promoting healing, self-love, and empowerment for BIPOC teens and young adults.

The BEAT tool is just a part of this framework, and we hope you’ll enjoy getting a taste of what you’ll learn in the course!

Exploring the BEATs of Race-Based Stress with Young People of Color | Praxis Continuing Education and Training Gratitude (and its sibling appreciation) is the mental tool we use to remind ourselves of the good stuff. It’s a…

Want a supportive “peer-supervision” environment to practice your ACT skills?

Join us in Advanced ACT, an 8-session live online course beginning April 4:
https://www.praxiscet.com/events/advanced-act-apr-2024/

If you’re like a lot of intermediate to advanced practitioners of acceptance and commitment therapy, you might find yourself wishing you could use the model more fluidly and shape psychological flexibility in a more targeted way — with no idea how to work toward it.

Often, this isn’t about needing more techniques or diving back into the theory in general.

It’s about engaging in intentional practice in the areas that will make the biggest difference.

Expert ACT trainer Lou Lasprugato makes self-assessment, deliberate practice, and functional feedback central to the learning process, paving the way for continual improvement.

We hope you’ll join us in this hands-on workshop to sharpen your skills and increase your impact!
Here are the nitty-gritty details:
Begins April 4, 2024
8 live online sessions
Offers 16 CE hours

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ACT for Grief and End-of-Life
Live online course
May 7–28, 2024
8 CE hours

Join us to learn a compassionate approach to helping clients live with intention when it matters most:
https://www.praxiscet.com/events/act-for-grief-and-end-of-life-may-2024/

Want to feel braver in your work with clients facing loss?

In ACT for Grief and End-of-Life, Dr. Jennifer Gregg will guide you in using acceptance and commitment therapy to help clients cope effectively and connect with their values in the here and now.

You’ll come out with a clear sense of how to teach ACT skills in the context of loss while respecting clients’ boundaries and building stronger therapeutic relationships.

We hope you’ll join this uplifting training to learn how you can more confidently and effectively support clients.

ACT for Grief and End-of-Life | Praxis Continuing Education and Training How can people live with intention and vibrancy when they stand to lose someone they love — or perhaps even … ACT for Grief and End-of-Life Read More »

If you want to fully ground your approach in ACT principles and more strategically target psychological flexibility…

Register for our 2-day workshop Practicing the Heart of ACT: https://www.praxiscet.com/events/heart-of-act-san-diego/

Many clinicians learning acceptance and commitment therapy feel something important is missing in their application.

They use techniques faithfully but still feel they aren’t getting to the heart of the matter.

The interventions feel separate from the rest of therapy, or don’t seem to effectively spark flexibility.

So what’s going on?

In this workshop, ACT master trainer Dr. Robyn D. Walser will help you deepen your understanding of the model — including how to effectively use a functional contextual perspective and broaden your application beyond techniques.

This will help you understand the “why” behind your interventions and create a cohesive strategy for shaping psychological flexibility.

Find out more and save your spot at the link above!

Practicing the Heart of ACT - San Diego | Praxis Continuing Education and Training Practicing the Heart of ACT will teach you how to embody the full ACT model and fluidly translate it into therapeutic exchanges with impact.