UK psychologists, rehumanise your approach to mental health with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Dr.
ACT: The Psychology of Doing What Matters — Even When Life Hurts
with Dr Ute Liersch, Chartered Psychologist & ACT Practitioner
What if your clients aren't broken — just stuck in a story?
This isn’t just another CPD course. This is a call to rehumanise the way we work with pain.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) isn’t about fixing symptoms — it’s about changing our relationship to them. Rooted in relational frame theory (RFT), this approach gives you the language, the lens, and the tools to help clients move from psychological inflexibility to valued, committed action — no matter what shows up in their minds.
But here’s the truth ACT starts with: The mind is a storyteller. And some stories feel so real, we forget they’re optional.
In this six-part training, Dr Ute Liersch — psychologist, speaker, and cancer survivor — guides you through ACT not as theory, but as a lived, embodied practice. From metaphors that land to moments that move, you’ll learn how to sit with the unspeakable, without losing the self.
What You’ll Learn:
How language creates suffering — and how it can also free us
The Hexaflex: six core processes that shape both suffering and resilience
How to help clients defuse from rigid thoughts without analysing them
Why values, not goals, are the compass of meaningful change
How to bring embodiment, movement and metaphor into the therapy room
The difference between challenging a thought and changing its grip
How to build a therapeutic relationship based on equality, courage, and presence
Who It's For:
Therapists ready to move beyond scripts and into real psychological depth
Coaches, counsellors, and wellbeing professionals working with stuckness, avoidance, or identity distress
CPD-seeking practitioners who want tools that feel human — and work
This isn’t about adding another technique.
It’s about meeting pain — yours, theirs — with more courage, more clarity, and more care.
If that matters to you, this course is already yours.
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