Integrating Principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) into Your Practice

Integrating Principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) into Your Practice

Friday, January 23, 2026

Registration 8:30am Program 9am to 12pm

Presented By: Evan Forman, Ph.D.

Location: Online Workshop

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***Deadline to register is January 21, 2026 at 9am***

3 CE Credits

This three-hour workshop offers an introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and presents ways to incorporate ACT into clinicians’ existing psychotherapeutic practices. Participants will learn ACT’s theoretical foundations, its differences from traditional CBT, and several  core integration principles, i.e., mindful awareness, acceptance, defusion, values clarification, and willingness. Through metaphors, experiential exercises, and case applications, attendees will gain ways of applying ACT techniques to anxiety, depression, weight control, insomnia, and chronic pain.

• What is ACT
• Evidence for effectiveness
• Considerations for incorporating ACT
• Similarities/differences from traditional CBT
• Core Principles for Integration
  • Mindfulness: Awareness
  • Mindfulness: Acceptance
  • Defusion
  • Values Clarification
  • Willingness
• Useful metaphors and images
• Utilization for Anxiety
• Utilization for Depression
• Utilization for Weight Control
• Utilization for Insomnia
• Utilization for Chronic Pain
• Conclusion

Objectives:

1. Explain the theoretical foundations of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
2. Differentiate ACT from traditional cognitive-behavioral therapy
3. Describe the core ACT processes
4. Utilize ACT metaphors and experiential exercises

Evan M. Forman received his B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Rochester, and has completed clinical internships and fellowships at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Pennsylvania under Aaron T. Beck. He is currently a Professor of Psychological and Brian Sciences at Drexel University. He was the founding Director of the Center for Weight Eating and Lifestyle Science (the WELL Center) which he grew into an internationally-recognized research and training center with 55 faculty, postdoc fellows, staff and students, and that has garnered $47 million in funding across almost 50 projects. He is the winner of two mentorship awards, and his many trainees have gone on to occupy prominent positions throughout the country. Dr. Forman is considered a national leader in the development and evaluation of innovative technological and behavioral approaches to health behavior change, such as the use of third-wave behavioral approaches, the use of gamification to motivate behavior change and facilitate neurocognitive training, and the use of AI to optimize the continuous selection of treatment based on real-time digital outcome data. He has received $18M in external funding, most from the National Institutes of Health, and has served as PI of 6 large NIH-funded clinical trials. He has also served as Mentor on 9 NIH training grants. He has authored over 220 scientific papers, which have over 22,000 indexed citations. He has edited several important texts, and is also the author of a clinician guide and workbook called Effective Weight Loss: An Acceptance-based Behavior Approach for Oxford Press’s Treatments that Work series. He has served on numerous NIH review panels, as chair of the Committee of Science and Practice for APA Division 12 (Society for Clinical Psychology), editor of the APA Division 12 Evidence-Based Treatments website, Director of the Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology, and Director of all Graduate Studies in Psychology. Dr. Forman maintains a private practice in Narberth, PA and sees patients throughout the country remotely via PsyPACT, with specialties in insomnia, weight control, binge eating, depression, and anxiety. He is also the co-founder of TheraClosure, a Professional Executor service for mental health clinicians.

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