Parallel Paths: Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) skills for supporting clients and sustaining clinicians

Gain practical, experiential ACT tools you can apply immediately in your work—helping both caregivers and yourself stay grounded, effective, and resilient in the face of complexity.

Working with clients and families navigating complex challenges—such as disability, illness, and medical complexity—can be both meaningful and profoundly demanding. This Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) workshop equips professionals across mental health, healthcare, and education to support caregivers in these contexts and strengthen both their clinical skills and their own resilience. In these roles, professionals often face the emotional and clinical challenge of helping caregivers through situations they cannot change—leaving providers drained and unsure how to move treatment or support forward.

This experiential workshop introduces ACT as a compassionate, flexible approach to fostering wellbeing—for both those providing care and those receiving it.

The training is delivered in two connected parts:

1. Clinical Skills – Applying ACT to help caregivers navigate difficult or unchangeable circumstances while staying grounded in what matters most.
2. Sustaining Clinicians – Using ACT to support your own wellbeing, resilience, and alignment with values as you care for caregivers.

As clinicians, we often learn alongside the caregivers we support. Facing challenges, developing new skills, or finding purpose in the work. Through teaching, reflection, and hands-on exercises, participants will actively explore how to adapt the same ACT principles to serve both client and clinician, transforming difficult moments into opportunities for connection, purpose, and strength.

Whether you work in mental health, healthcare, or education, this training offers strategies to sustain your effectiveness, your relationships, and your wellbeing—so you can keep showing up, even when it’s hard.

Learning objectives:

• Describe the core principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and how they support psychological flexibility for both caregivers and clinicians.
• Recognize common challenges in caregiving and clinical roles—such as experiential avoidance, cognitive fusion, and burnout—and identify how ACT processes can promote both competence and wellbeing.
• Apply key experiential ACT tools (e.g., the choice point, values clarification, defusion) to support emotional regulation and values-based action with clients.
• Use ACT strategies to strengthen self-compassion, wellbeing, resilience, and alignment with values in the clinician role.

Register now to strengthen your ACT skills to support caregivers through complex challenges—while building resilience and sustaining your own wellbeing as a clinician.

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