Audience

Counsellors, psychologists, and psychotherapists who have experience with OCD/ERP/CBT and want to add ACT skills.

Motivation for course

ERP is the “gold standard”, however many clients struggle to implement it. They may have difficulties with motivation, overwhelming emotions, pervasive rumination/mental compulsions, strong urges to do compulsions or difficulties with shame and mental resistance. This course is to teach ACT and compassion skills to work on these difficulties.

Goals:

-              Learn a progression of ACT tools to apply to ERP for rumination, intense emotions and urges

-              Practice these skills for oneself and guiding others

-              Develop knowledge in interpreting client’s experiential feedback, and the markers of skill application being helpful or unhelpful - through interactive practice and skilful debriefing

-              Gain motivational skills to help clients engage in ERP from ACT, drawing upon values and goals, workability and self-compassion

-              Explore the barriers to applying skills in ERP

-              Helping clients with shame and mental resistance with compassion

-              Delivering values-based ERP

-              Ensuring ACT skills are values enhancing rather than compulsive

 Total Duration: 3 hours 

Course structure

-              Introduction to ACT skills, compassion and Values-based ERP

-              Practicing fundamental ACT skills – skills such as different levels of dropping anchor, urge surfing, dipping in and out of the stream for rumination and monitoring, motivation skills

-              Problem solving sticking points and difficulties with practices

-              Application of skills in ERP, 3 levels of Values-Based ERP

-              ACT and CFT approaches to self-compassion for shame

-              Common Barriers and solutions

Trainer - Jonny Say

Jonny is a UK based therapist and co-director at The Integrative Centre for OCD Therapy. Jonny has worked is the NHS as well as in the private sector. Jonny draws in particular from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). He has been trained and is experienced in other 3rd Wave Cognitive Behavioural Therapies. He combines a highly compassionate and empathic approach, with practical psychological skills, to help clients move in valued life directions.

Training resources

 Audio recordings and worksheets for practices will be provided.

Key information:

• Friday April 25th at 2pm UK, 6am California, 9am Boston, 11pm Sydney

• Training lasts for 3 hours

• Price: £90 (Price of 1 therapy session)

• Training will be delivered via Zoom

• CPD certificate of attendance on request

• 6 months on-demand access to the training post live training.

If this training can help you and your clients we look forward to seeing you on Friday 25th April.