Bold Moves: Enhancing Your Practice with Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

About ACT
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a contemporary form of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) that has shown much promise in helping clients with a wide range of emotional and behavioral difficulties. ACT introduces a comprehenhsive model of therapy including a creative set of metaphors and experiential exercises to help clients (a) move away from unworkable change strategies, (b) make healthy contact with thoughts, feelings, and other private reactions they have feared and avoided, (c) re-connect with their deepest values to set a direction for change and to motivate change, and (d) experience their struggles differently and in a manner that permits them to move forward with their lives now.

This Workshop

Using a combination of didactic presentation and experiential exercises, this workshop will introduce participants to the ACT model. Attendees will leave this training with a basic understanding of ACT approaches to therapy and with specific skills they can employ immediately.

Presenter
Dr. Joel Guarna is a licensed psychologist in the state of Maine. He earned his PhD from Bowling Green State University in 2000 and trained at the Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology as a predoctoral intern and postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Guarna later served as a staff psychologist in the Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System in Boston. During this time, he provided individual, couples, and group treatment to veterans with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders. He directed an intensive outpatient program for veterans with addictions at the Brockton VAMC. He provided training and supervision to psychologists-in-training and psychiatry residents as a Clinical Instructor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Guarna began work in private practice in 2005 and now manages his own practice, White Pine Behavioral Health LLC, in Portland, Maine. Dr. Guarna’s areas of interest and specialization include Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies (CBT), Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), mind/body health and mindfulness-based therapies, health psychology, addictions treatment, and treatment of anxiety and mood disorders, trauma and PTSD. He was introduced to ACT in 1999 and has attended and given numerous talks and trainings on ACT over the past several years. Dr. Guarna's Website | CV

Continuing Education
Psychologists and alcohol and drug counselors in Maine: White Pine Institute has applied for continuing education approval for psychologists and alcohol and drug counselors through the appropriate boards. Counselors and social workers in Maine: Appropriate documentation will be provided so counselors and social workers can submit for continuing education to their respective boards. Out of state therapists and other health care providers: Documentation of your attendance will be provided for you to use if you decide to seek CE approval from your respective board.

Policies

This event is open to health care and behavioral health care professionals only.
If you require any special accommodations, please be sure to contact me well before the date of the event.
Please review our Cancelation/Refund, Grievance, and other Policies HERE.

Registration fee is $100
(Discounted fee of $75 for renters @ 25 Middle Street.)