ACT mastery
Working dynamically and functionally
This workshop forms part of The ACT pathway, which includes the ACT essentials, ACT next steps and ACT intermediate workshops.
Take your ACT practice to the next level with this workshop focusing on the dynamic interplay of context and process in therapy. This workshop equips you with the tools to track psychological flexibility and inflexibility in real time, both with your clients and within yourself as a therapist. It has a strong emphasis on practical application, and will guide you on how to adapt ACT processes to various common client presentations. You’ll also explore ways to integrate ACT with other therapeutic modalities, while reflecting on your own personal growth and development as an ACT practitioner.
Background to the workshop
ACT doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Each session is shaped by a unique web of client behaviour, therapeutic context, and the therapist’s own processes. For ACT practitioners, this means navigating the complexity of tracking both the client’s flexibility/inflexibility processes and their own responses in the moment. This is not a passive skill; it’s an active, ongoing practice that requires awareness, adaptability, and a deep understanding of context. The real test comes when sessions feel stuck, when interventions don’t seem to land, or when practitioners encounter their own self-stories and struggles.
What you will gain from this workshop
This workshop will give you the skills to refine and adapt your ACT practice, with a focus on real-time awareness, contextual flexibility, and personal development. You will:
- Build your ability to track psychological flexibility and inflexibility processes in real time during sessions, observing shifts in your client’s behaviour and your own as a practitioner.
- Help your clients learn to track their own behaviour, fostering self-awareness and ownership of change.
- Shape your application of ACT processes and skills to suit a variety of common client presentations, such as anxiety, low mood, rumination, self-doubt, and life transitions.
- Adapt your practice to diverse contexts, including individual, group, and online therapy settings, while maintaining a coherent ACT framework.
- Learn practical guidelines for integrating ACT with other therapeutic approaches like CBT or CFT, ensuring consistency and avoiding incoherence.
- Develop yourself as an ACT therapist by engaging in self-appraisal of your existing strengths and areas for growth using tools like the ACT FM+ framework.
- Work with your own unhelpful self-stories as a therapist, learning how to stay grounded and flexible in the face of challenges.
- Learn how to make the best use of supervision and other development tools to ensure ongoing professional growth.
This workshop provides practical strategies for working effectively across varied contexts while deepening your understanding of your own processes as a therapist.
About this workshop
This workshop combines theory with hands-on learning to create an engaging and practical experience. You’ll participate in live demonstrations (including actor role-play), interactive discussions, and exercises designed to sharpen your ability to track and adapt to psychological flexibility/inflexibility processes in real time. You’ll also explore case examples and scenarios to practise adapting ACT concepts to different contexts and presentations. Between-session self-reflection tools, such as the ACT FM+ framework, will help you evaluate your strengths, identify areas for growth, and enhance your ability to work with your own processes as a therapist.
Resources you will receive:
- Prior to session, a copy of the ACT-FM+ skills self-assessment/reflection tool, for you to complete,score and reflect on privately. This will help you shape your personal goals for the session, and development plan going forward
- Handouts of behaviour-tracking exercises and practices (for you to tailor to your own context and style)
Who will benefit from this workshop?
This workshop is for practitioners who want to take their ACT skills to the next level, building on the ACT essentials, ACT next steps and ACT intermediate skills workshops. If you’ve already completed foundational training in ACT and are looking to build greater depth, confidence, and flexibility in your work, this is the next step in your development.
Designed for psychologists, counsellors, coaches, and other professionals using ACT in their practice, this workshop focuses on strengthening your ability to work flexibly and responsively, adapting the model to a range of real-world contexts and client needs.
Whether you’re looking to deepen your technical skills, develop your confidence in using ACT creatively, or refine how you show up in sessions, this workshop will help you grow as a practitioner and expand your ability to use ACT with clarity and precision.
This workshop is part of The ACT pathway – a structured, four-part training pathway designed to take you from foundational knowledge to intermediate-level practice. Each workshop builds on the last, offering a step-by-step approach to developing your skills, confidence, and flexibility in using ACT. Whether you’re following the full pathway or joining at this stage with prior ACT experience, this workshop supports your continued growth as a practitioner.
After this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Track psychological flexibility and inflexibility processes in real time during sessions, including shifts in both client and therapist behaviour.
- Guide clients in monitoring their own behaviour to foster self-awareness and ownership of change.
- Apply ACT processes and skills across common clinical presentations such as anxiety, low mood, rumination, self-doubt, and life transitions.
- Adapt ACT interventions for diverse contexts, including individual, group, and online therapy, while maintaining a coherent therapeutic framework.
- Integrate ACT with other therapeutic approaches (e.g., CBT, CFT) in ways that preserve coherence and consistency.
- Evaluate and strengthen personal development as an ACT therapist by using structured tools (e.g., ACT FM+), supervision, and self-reflection to remain grounded and flexible.
Continuing education credits are available both for attending the live workshop and for completing the workshop by viewing the recording of the live event.
APA psychologists: This program is sponsored by Contextual Consulting and is approved for 6 CE credits for psychologists. Contextual Consulting is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Contextual Consulting maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Nationally certified counselors: This workshop is available for 6 credit hours. Contextual Consulting Ltd. has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7578.
To find out more, including attendance requirements and how to access your certificate, go to our continuing education information page
If you have disability and require adjustments or accommodation, please email us at admin@contextualconsulting.co.uk to discuss your needs and we will do our best to help you.
Booking cancellation
The registration fee will be refunded minus a administration charge if cancellations are received at least two weeks before the workshop date.
Cancellations within two weeks of the event date are charged the full registration fee, other than in exceptional circumstances that can be verified.
Event cancellation
In the event of cancellation of the course outside of our control we will not be held accountable for travel and/or accommodation costs incurred. However, the workshop fees will be refunded.
All workshops will be subject to minimum delegate numbers being met; in the event that a workshop should be cancelled delegates will be given no less than 2 months’ notice.
Replacing delegates
If a delegate is unable to attend and a replacement is nominated there may be a charge depending on the individual circumstances, this will be advised at the time. Please contact the us to request a replacement of delegates at least a week before the workshop date.
Contextual Consulting is committed to the identification and resolution of potential conflicts of interest in the planning, promotion, delivery, and evaluation of continuing education. Potential conflicts of interest occur when an individual assumes a professional role in the planning, promotion, delivery, or evaluation of continuing education where personal, professional, legal, financial, or other interests could reasonably be expected to impair their objectivity, competence, or effectiveness.
There was no commercial support for this event. None of the planners or presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.