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Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) skills for supporting clients and sustaining clinicians
Gain experiential acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) skills to guide caregivers through complex, unchangeable challenges—while enhancing your own resilience, wellbeing, and clinical effectiveness.
“This was a very engaging presentation full of great practical and useful content with plenty of real examples to bring it to life. Katy’s style goes beyond teaching content, providing examples of process using personal experiences as a clinician as well as demonstrating ACT through her responses through out the workshop. I highly recommend this to other clinicians from novice to seasoned.” Past Participant, ACT Skills for Supporting Clients and Sustaining Clinicians, November 25, 2025.
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.
This training is delivered in two connected parts:
- Clinical Skills – Applying ACT to help caregivers navigate difficult or unchangeable circumstances while staying grounded in what matters most.
- 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.
“ACT has changed how I show up—for my clients and for myself. For me, it is more than a therapy model—it’s a way of being. It helps us stay grounded in what matters most, even when the problems we face can’t be fixed. I’m eager to share these practical, sustaining tools with other clinicians.”
– Katy Albert, M.Ed., OCT, BCBA.
Learning objectives:
- Describe the core principles of 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
- 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.
“Presentation was educational, provided practice experience and was engaging!”
– Rosalina Ekwa-Ekoko, Past Attendee, ACT Skills for Supporting Clients and Sustaining Clinicians, November 25, 2025.
