Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) as a Brief Intervention

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) as a Brief Intervention is organized by Act Mindfully.

Start Date: Starts 10 March 2026 - Time 8 hrs | 6 weeks

Description:
Are you facing the ever-growing challenge of how to optimize client outcomes with as few treatment sessions as possible? Around the globe, the demand for brief therapy is rapidly growing, but fortunately, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) is well suited to a brief intervention format.

In this advanced-level 6-week online course, you’ll learn how to do ACT effectively in anything from 1 to 6 sessions of 20 to 30 minutes each, using an approach better known as FACT: Focused Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. FACT is a brief but powerful behavioural intervention approach, pioneered by Kirk Strosahl and Patricia Robinson, and widely used in the USA and Europe.

Effectively Optimize Client Outcomes:
This engaging online course, 8 hours in total, rolled out over 6 weeks, will take you step-by-step through the practice and principles of FACT.

The FACT model is ideal for anyone who wants to do ACT more efficiently, especially for practitioners in time-limited settings, including primary care, short in-patient stays, school or university counselling, prisons, EAPs, and crisis intervention services.

You’ll learn how to use FACT as brief intervention for depression, anxiety disorders, addictions, stress, medical problems and a wide range of other common clinical issues.

Unique and Engaging Learning Experience:
FACT is a radically different approach to therapy, which will give you a wealth of new ideas and effective strategies.

In this 6-week online course you will:

• Discover exciting new research about the surprisingly high effectiveness of brief therapy interventions, and learn how to apply this approach with your clients and patients
• Observe demonstrations of the specific clinical techniques that make up the FACT approach
• Learn the art of focused interviewing skillsLearn how to do rapid case formulation and treatment targeting
• Learn how to do an effective ACT intervention in as little as 5 to 10 minutes

Each week, Dr. Russ Harris will take you step-by-step through the core principles of FACT, supported by instructional videos, engaging animations, videos of therapy sessions, written materials, audio recordings, client handouts and worksheets, and interactive quizzes to test your learnings as you go.

To complete your interactive experience, the course also includes a fully supported forum where you can ask questions week by week and share your experiences with Russ and your peers from around the world.

Course Goals:

• Learn how to do an effective ACT intervention in as little as 5 to 10 minutes
• Learn how to do rapid case formulation and treatment targeting
• Discover exciting new research about the surprisingly high effectiveness of brief therapy interventions, and learn how to apply this approach with your clients and patients
• Learn the art of focused interviewing skills
• Observe demonstrations of the specific clinical techniques that make up the FACT approach.