Offering a new Extended training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)*, Functional Analytical Psychotherapy (FAP) and Relational Frame Theory (RFT), with fortnightly supervision to measure your increasing ACT-consistency. *Delivered by three ACBS peer-reviewed ACT Trainers
Our ACT training is approved by the British Psychological Society Learning Centre for the purposes of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Four Day Skills Intensive Part 1 of 2:
17-18 Sept + 1-2 Oct 2020(Thurs-Friday) CPD Value: 28 hours Trainer: Martin Wilks and Henry Whitfield.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Four Day Skills Intensive Part 2 of 2:
Dates:15-16 Oct + 12-13 Nov 2020 (Thurs-Friday) CPD Value: 28 hours Trainer: David Gillanders, ACBS Peer-reviewed ACT Trainer & Henry Whitfield MSc, ACBS Peer-reviewed ACT trainer.
Prerequisite: ACT: Four Day Skills Intensive Part 1, and some experience of applying ACT to both clients and oneself.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Supervision Programme:
Monthly CPD Value: 36 hours Trainer: Martin Wilks or Henry J. Whitfield
Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy: An experiential Introduction to the theory and application of MBCT:
TBC CPD Value: 28 hours Trainer: Martin Wilks
Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy: Teacher development - Part 1:
Dates: TBC (London) TBC (Outside London) 5 day course CPD Value: 35 hours Trainer: Dr. Patrizia C. Collard and Helen Stephenson
Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy: Teacher development - Part 2:
Training Dates: TBC CPD Value: 30 hours An intensive experiential 5 day training workshop offering space for nourishment, inspiration, exploration and learning
Online Skills Training in Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) for Social Connection
Online Skills Training in Functional Analytic Psychotherapy for Social Connection Date:TBC. Time: 6:30-8:30 pm CPD Value: 16 hours Trainer: Matthew D. Skinta, Ph.D.
Transcend your self-concept issues with the precision of Relational Frame Theory (RFT):
Training Dates: TBC Time: 9:30am for a 10:00am start to 5:00pm CPD Value: 14 hours Trainers: Louise McHugh, BSc MA PhD Location: Islington, London N1
Supervision for Integrated Mindfulness Therapies (IMT) Programme and TIR Accreditation:
Date: Monthly CPD Value: 16 hours Trainer: Henry Whitfield
Introduction to Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIRW) :
Date: TBA Trainer: Henry Whitfield
Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) Level1 Module2: Expanded Applications
Certificate in Expanded Applications of TIR and related techniques:
Certificate in Metapsychology Schema coaching - Creating new ways of being:
Certificate in Exploration and Enhanced Rapport:
Dr. David Gillanders D.Clin.Psychol , ACBS Peer-reviewed ACT Trainer
Also a clinical psychologist, David first became interested in ACT in around 2004 via the Contextual CBT for Chronic Pain work of Lance McCracken. As well as working as a clinician specialising in chronic pain, David also trains clinical psychology doctoral students in ACT. He has led a research programme in clinical health psychology, focusing on a variety of long term health conditions. This research has investigated different theoretical perspectives on psychological factors in long term conditions. This research strategy has supported thesis projects for 8 DClinPsychol students, and 3 PhD students. David has also worked on measuring cognitive defusion (a core process in ACT).
Martin Wilks MSc BSc. Psychol, Dip Couns. MSc Couns Psychol,Dip Couns Psychol. BPS Chartered
Martin has cultivated a personal mindfulness practice for over 20 years. He runs mindfulness-based groups and counselling services in a London prison. In private practice, for the last 4 years, he has used ACT in short term work and weaves many ACT practices and procedures into longer term mindfulness-based psychotherapy. His research interests include the integration of meditation with co-counselling.
Henry J. Whitfield MSc, MBACP, ACBS Peer-reviewed ACT trainer, Accredited Advanced TIR trainer and TIR practitioner (TIRA)
Henry set up Mindfulness Training Ltd in 2006. His research interests include the theoretical and practical integration of mindfulness with cognitive behavioural theories, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy processes and in case-formulated applications of mindfulness. After 4 years as a trauma specialist for Victim Support Lambeth, Henry has since conducted empirical research for City and Hackney Mind, and SPCP Regents College, London investigating psychological process in counselling. He also works in private practice, and teaches widely on the subject of Mindfulness-consistent therapies.
Jonathan W. Kanter, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dr. Jonathan Kanter is a Research Associate Professor and FAP Term Professor at the University of Washington. He has written numerous empirical and theoretical articles on FAP and provided workshops to student and professional audiences around the world. He is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and has edited or co-authored 5 books, including “A Guide to Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Awareness, Courage, Love, and Behaviorism” with several other authors.
Dr Louise McHugh BSc MA PhD
Louise's research interests are centered on the experimental analysis of language and cognition from a behaviour analytic and Relational Frame Theory perspective, including especially the development of complex cognitive skills such as as perspective-taking and the process-level investigation of behavioural and cognitive psychotherapies including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. She has published over 40 papers on these topics and has received funding from several sources including the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Waterloo Trust and the Welsh Assembly. Most recently she was awarded a European Marie Curie career integration award to join the faculty at UCD. A faculty member at University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland, Louise McHugh is not only a world authority on RFT (Relational Frame Theory – the theory of language and cognition that underlies ACT) but also a dynamic and entertaining presenter. Louise is editor and co-author of the newly published textbook ‘The Self And Perspective Taking’, and her ground-breaking work in the use of RFT to help autistic children develop theory of mind and empathy is now being employed by state-of-the-art ABA programs around the world.