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Digital Seminar

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Workshop

The Complete Start-to-Finish Training for Mental Health Professionals

Speaker:
Jacob Martinez, LPC
Duration:
Approx 12 hrs
Copyright:
Apr 30, 2026
Product Code:
POS150645
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar


Description

ACT is one of the most evidence-based, flexible approaches in therapy today.

Because ACT is more than a set of interventions …

… it’s a way of doing therapy that transforms how you work with clients – taking you beyond the “problems and symptoms” approaches that dominate many manualized treatment models.

From anxiety and depression to trauma and chronic pain, ACT is a compassionate, values-driven approach that helps clients build the life they want – not just reduce the symptoms they don’t.

It’s why tens of thousands of clinicians count on it every day … and it’s why you need it in your treatment toolbox.

You’ll learn to use ACT from start to finish.

You’ll watch Jacob Martinez, LPC, ACT trainer and a past board member of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS). Jacob specializes in using ACT across a wide range of clinical presentations and has trained hundreds of clinicians to confidently integrate this approach into their work.

He’ll show you a clear, step-by-step path with detailed instruction, demonstrations, and practical real-world applications that show you exactly what to do.

No confusion. No overwhelm, Just practical training that prepares you to use ACT with your very next client.

You’ll leave ready to:

  • Develop psychological flexibility in clients so they can break free from avoidance
  • Use powerful ACT exercises that create breakthrough moments in session
  • Guide clients to clarify their values and take committed action – even when it’s hard
  • Address anxiety, depression, trauma, and chronic pain with ACT interventions
  • And much more!

Whether you’re completely new to ACT, or have previous training, this program is sure to add value to your practice …

… maybe even change how you approach therapy altogether.

So don’t wait.

Purchase now!

Credit

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



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Continuing education credit information is coming soon for this non-interactive self-study package.

CE hours may be available for select professions, as listed in the target audience. Hours will be dependent on the actual recording time. Please check with your state licensing board or organization for specific requirements. 

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**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.



Speaker

Jacob Martinez, LPC's Profile

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Jacob Martinez, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor in private practice in Wisconsin. He is an active member of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS), the international organization for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with over 8,000 members worldwide and served on the board from 2023-2025. Jacob specializes in the ACT Matrix and creating novel ACT interventions, with a mission to help clinicians “think outside the books” through engaging presentations on psychological flexibility, along with ongoing training and supervision of clinicians.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jacob Martinez maintains a private practice. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jacob Martinez is a member of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.

 


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


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Objectives

  1. Explain how the origins of human cognition and language via evolution is relevant to the ACT model.     
  2. Identify Transformation of Function & Rule Governed Behavior. 
  3. Define Functional Contextualism as it applies to clinical practice. 
  4. Define Process Based Therapy.
  5. Develop a functional analysis of behavior using a three-term contingency model.
  6. Utilize the ACT Matrix to help clients identify unworkable patterns of behavior.
  7. Identify three goals of brief therapy in Focused ACT.
  8. Choose metaphors that promote behavior change.
  9. Appraise cases using the Hexaflex Model.
  10. Define Values in ACT.
  11. Determine Processes of Change via Network Diagramming.
  12. Examine Process Based case conceptualization trans-diagnostically.

Outline

ACT Foundations: Understanding the Big Picture

  • What do we mean by “behavior” – from molecules to meaning
  • Why we move toward some things and away from others
  • How evolution shapes behavior: variation, selection, and retention
  • ACT as an open-source, open-science model; what that means for you
  • A quick history of ACT: where is started, where it’s going
  • Understand the Relational Frame Theory (RFT)
  • Research, risks and treatment limitations

The Human Story: Why the Contextual Roots of Behavior Matter in Therapy

  • Why looking at our ancestors helps us understand behavior today
  • What makes Homo sapiens unique in how we think and relate
  • How we assign meaning and function – often arbitrarily
  • 200,000 years of advancement

A Philosophy of Function: See Behavior Differently with ACT

  • Radical behaviorism: not what you think
  • Predict-and-influence: the heart of behavioral science
  • The Three-Term Contingency: a therapist’s lens
  • Creative hopelessness: turn stuckness into possibility
  • Appetite vs. aversion: how context changes everything
  • Help clients analyze their own behavior functionally
  • Demonstration

ACT as a Process-Based Therapy

  • What Are Processes, Really?
  • Psychological flexibility: the “container” for change
  • Different ways to conceptualize it:
    • The Three Pillars/Focused ACT
    • The ACT Matrix
    • RFT’s three core strategies
    • DNA-v model
    • The Hexaflex & Core yearnings
    • Extended Evolutionary Meta Model

The Intake Session: Set the Stage for Change

  • How to balance intake goals with therapeutic momentum
  • Use the ACT Matrix to promote rapid insight
  • Identify treatment goals that actually work
  • Give clients hope from the very first session
  • Setting homework that sticks
  • Case demonstration

ACT in Short-Term Therapy: Make Every Minute Count

  • Why short-term therapy can be powerful
  • Simplify your ACT toolbox
  • Focus on three key change agents
  • The Grief Contextual Interview
  • Easy-to-learn metaphors that make a big impact
  • Live Case Demos

Using Language as Intervention in ACT

  • How to craft and co-create metaphors with clients
  • Tips for making metaphors come alive in session
  • Case demonstration

“Set Piece” Interventions that Target Multiple Processes at Once

  • Present moment contact
  • Experiential acceptance
  • Cognitive defusion
  • Self-as-context
  • Values clarification
  • Committed action

Values: The Great Transformers

  • Define values in functional terms
  • Help clients clarify what truly matters
  • Link values to vitality and motivation
  • Case demonstration

Case Conceptualization: What Process Am I Targeting?

  • Use the Hexaflex & Core Yearnings to guide your work
  • Make process “reads” in real time
  • The Problem-Procedure-Process-Outcome framework
  • Network diagramming for complex cases
  • Case demonstration

Target Audience

  • Social Workers
  • Counselors
  • Psychologsits
  • Physicians
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Registered Psychotherapists
  • Case Managers
  • Nurses
  • Mental Health Professionals

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