Introduction
Date Course Created: April 2026
Ready to take your clinical work to the next level? This experiential training offers a fresh, practical approach to integrating two gold-standard therapies: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Designed for therapists working with clients who struggle with anxiety, OCD, depression, trauma, substance use, and intense emotional reactivity, this workshop shows you how to bring the best of both models into a unified, flexible approach.
ACT helps clients build psychological flexibility through mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based action. DBT offers concrete, skills-based tools for regulating emotions, tolerating distress, and navigating relationships. Together, they can be a powerful combo, but integration requires nuance.
In this dynamic workshop, you’ll learn how to:
- Use DBT skills to support ACT-based exposure work within a client’s window of tolerance
- Combine structure and spontaneity – balancing DBT’s clarity with ACT’s adaptability
- Match interventions to client readiness, values, and specific skill deficits
Through guided exercises, case-based discussion, and real-time application, you’ll leave with strategies you can use immediately to support clients in building lives they want to live, without overwhelming them.
Perfect for clinicians eager to deepen their work with emotionally reactive or avoidant clients, this training offers tools to foster both emotional regulation and meaningful, values-driven change!
This is a 5.25-CE noninteractive, self-paced online video course delivered in home study format via an industry-standard online learning platform.
Agenda
00:00 – 01:00 → Comparing DBT and ACT Approaches, Change Models and Acceptance, Emotional Control Dimensions
01:00 – 02:00 → Therapeutic Models, Mindfulness Techniques, Implementing Opposite Action, Justified Emotions
02:00 – 02:45 → Skillful Willingness, Creative Hopelessness and Client Growth, Integrating Values
02:45 – 04:00 → Teen Perspectives, ACT’s Approach to Avoidance, DBT Skills, Client Avoidance Patterns
04:00 – 04:50 → Case Study, The Big Self Concept, Troubleshooting Client Experiences, Emotional Awareness
04:50 – 05:25 → DBT and ACT Combined, Grief and Trauma, Therapeutic Alliance, Assessments
Objectives
This training will provide participants clinical knowledge and tools to:
After completing this training, participants will be able to describe the core tenets, principles, and underlying theories of both Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).- After completing this training, participants will be able to identify and compare the six core processes of ACT with DBT skills.
- After completing this training, participants will be able to illustrate how integrating ACT and DBT interventions can enhance psychological flexibility and support emotion regulation.
- After completing this training, participants will be able to apply ACT and DBT strategies to support clients in engaging in skills-assisted exposure while remaining within their window of tolerance.
- After completing this training, participants will be able to demonstrate how to integrate values-based action (ACT) and life worth living goals (DBT) to promote meaningful behavior change and long-term functioning.
- After completing this training, participants will be able to describe how to use ACT and DBT frameworks to guide case conceptualization and therapist stance.
Target Audience:
The target audience for this event includes psychologists, social workers, counselors, MFT’s, psychiatrists and other clinical mental health professionals.
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Instructor(s): Rachael Julstrom, MA, LPC, LCPC, C-DBT
Material Author(s): Rachael Julstrom, MA, LPC, LCPC, C-DBT
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Course Materials & Delivery Method:
- Course Materials – The course is composed of a recorded presentation and written materials (e.g. a slide deck and/or other worksheets, manuals, or handouts as provided by the instructor). The slide deck and any additional worksheets or handouts (as provided by the instructor) are made available inside the Lesson module after a course is purchased.
- Delivery Method – This course is a recorded asynchronous, self-paced webinar training, and there is no access time limit or due date to complete it once enrolled. The enrolled learner will stream the recorded presentation and view the materials from their internet connected device via an industry-standard online learning platform.
CE Approvals:
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
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Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Mind Works Professional Education, Inc. DBA Online CE Credits, #1974, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: July 23, 2025 – July 23, 2028. Social workers completing this course receive 5.25 clinical continuing education credits.
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