About ACT, depression and anxiety

Strengthen and streamline your ACT skills to work rapidly, deeply and compassionately with the full spectrum of depression and anxiety disorders – including mandated or suicidal clients. This in-depth training will give you a wealth of practical tools and strategies to effectively target not only depression and dysthymia, but the full range of anxiety disorders from OCD to panic disorder.

This course is led by Russ Harris, the world’s leading ACT trainer, and includes an interactive forum where you can connect with Russ on a daily basis. Ask questions, share experiences, and get feedback from the very best in the field. You’ll be supported as you learn how to:

  • Win over mandated, coerced, reluctant or ambivalent clients
  • Use values-based strategies to motivate the unmotivated
  • Foster defusion from hopelessness even on the first visit
  • Foster defusion from ‘rigid thinking’, core beliefs and schemas (without any need to challenge or dispute them)
  • Develop self-acceptance and self-compassion, and overcome common barriers such as fusion with “I don’t deserve it”
  • Rapidly undermine rumination, worrying, and obsessing
  • How to find meaning and fulfilment when clients say: “life is meaningless”, “nothing matters”, “I don’t care about anything”, “I have no values”

Stop Struggling, Start Living: Interventions that Stick

You’ll also learn how to flexibly adapt your interventions on the fly — meeting clients where they are while maintaining momentum and rapport. Gain the skills to:

  • Use compassionate, flexible exposure to address anxiety at its core
  • Work with function and process to target problematic behaviours effectively
  • Introduce quick, simple mindfulness practices for clients who struggle to meditate or sit still
  • Learn ACT-congruent emotion regulation and self-soothing strategies
  • Build skills in values-based problem-solving, action-planning, and contingency-planning
  • Understand and target suicidality, creating prevention and relapse plans using the choice point
  • Introduce ‘mindful ceasefires’ — the antidote to panic attacks
  • Incorporate relaxation techniques where needed

Learn From The World’s Leading ACT Trainer

This course is led by internationally-acclaimed ACT trainer, Dr Russ Harris

  • Russ is both a physician and psychotherapist, and has trained over 90,000 health practitioners around the globe.
  • He is the author of the million-copy bestseller, The Happiness Trap, and the number one ACT textbook worldwide, ACT Made Simple.
  • His trainings are acclaimed for being fun, engaging, simple and practical.

Russ will guide you through the course and interact with you regularly via the forum.