Get everything you need to confidently use ACT in just 2 days!
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.
and it's why you need it in your treatment toolbox.
Now in this 2-day workshop you'll learn to use ACT from start to finish.
You'll join 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 experiential avoidance
- Use powerful ACT metaphors and 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. Register now!
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Workshop
September 17–18, 2026 · 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM CT · Advanced Discount — Register by 9/2/2026
Live In Brookfield, WI
Limited Seats Available
8:00–4:00 PM CT both days
- 60-day access to replay
Virtual Webcast
8:00–4:00 PM CT both days
- 60-day access to replay
Hundreds of Clinicians Have Already Transformed Their Practice
What You'll Cover Over Two Full Days
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 it started, where it's going
- Understanding the Relational Frame Theory (RFT)
- Research, risks and treatment limitations
The Human Story: Why the Contextual Roots of Behavior Matter
- 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: Seeing 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: turning stuckness into possibility
- Appetite vs. aversion: how context changes everything
- Helping 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: Setting the Stage for Change
- How to balance intake goals with therapeutic momentum
- Using the ACT Matrix to promote rapid insight
- Identifying treatment goals that actually work
- Giving clients hope from the very first session
- Setting homework that sticks
- Case demonstration
ACT in Short-Term Therapy: Making Every Minute Count
- Why short-term therapy can be powerful
- Simplifying your ACT toolbox
- Focusing on three key change agents
- The Brief 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
- Present moment contact
- Experiential acceptance
- Cognitive defusion
- Self-as-context
- Values clarification
- Committed action
Values: The Great Transformers
- Defining values in functional terms
- Helping clients clarify what truly matters
- Linking values to vitality and motivation
- Case demonstration
Case Conceptualization: What Process Am I Targeting?
- Using the Hexaflex & Core Yearnings to guide your work
- Making process "reads" in real time
- The Problem–Procedure–Process–Outcome framework
- Network diagramming for complex cases
- Case Demonstration
You Won't Find These Anywhere Else
Learn Jacob's Novel ACT Matrix Variations — developed through years of clinical innovation and real-world application.
The Survival-Vital Matrix
A trauma-focused variation that reframes survival mechanisms as natural responses, reducing shame and increasing compassionate self-awareness. Revolutionary approach to PTSD and trauma presentations.
Complete Clinical Protocols
Session-by-session guides for using the matrix from intake through termination — including scripts, worksheets, and clinical guides. Take home everything you need to start using the matrix immediately.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Workshop
September 17–18, 2026 · 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM CT · Advanced Discount — Register by 9/2/2026
Live In Brookfield, WI
Limited Seats Available
8:00–4:00 PM CT both days
- 60-day access to replay
Virtual Webcast
8:00–4:00 PM CT both days
- 60-day access to replay
Jacob Martinez, LPC is a licensed professional counselor in private practice in Wisconsin and a past board member of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS) — the international organization for ACT with over 9,000 members worldwide.
Jacob specializes in the ACT Matrix and creating novel ACT interventions. His mission: help clinicians "think outside the books" through engaging presentations on psychological flexibility, along with ongoing training and supervision. He's trained hundreds of clinicians to confidently integrate ACT into their work — and now he wants to help you do the same.
Why Your Peers Love Learning with Jacob
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September 17-18, 2026 from 8am-4pm CT
There will be a 70-minute lunch as well as two 15-minute breaks – one in the morning and one in the afternoon at the speakers' discretion.
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September 17–18, 2026 · 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM CT · Advanced Discount — Register by 9/2/2026
Live In Brookfield, WI
Limited Seats Available
8:00–4:00 PM CT both days
- 60-day access to replay
Virtual Webcast
8:00–4:00 PM CT both days
- 60-day access to replay