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Social workers, psychologists, licensed professional counselors, educators, school personnel, mental health professionals, clinicians, health and human service practitioners, and other health care professionals.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy offers new ways to achieve positive therapeutic outcomes with difficult-to-treat clinical concerns. ACT can easily be integrated with current theoretical approaches to expedite clients’ progress.
Join experienced ACT presenter and master clinician, Debra Premashakti Alvis, Ph.D., RYT, as she delivers an exercise and technique-heavy course providing the tools needed to more effectively treat clients with depression, anxiety, trauma, and personality disorders. Debra will teach the main concepts of ACT, including mindfulness, acceptance, and defusion – demonstrating how these create greater psychological flexibility. Discover a variety of techniques for helping clients who are struggling to make difficult behavior changes due to the presence of painful thoughts, feelings and memories. Learn how to effectively use metaphors, custom techniques and experiential exercises to help clients identify their values and translate them into behavioral goals.
Integrate ACT strategies into your practice immediately through hearing case examples, watching video clips, and participating in small group, skills practice. Renew your practice and your well-being through the emphasis on therapist self-care woven into the seminar day.
Faculty
DEBRA PREMASHAKTI ALVIS, PH.D., RYT
Debra Premashakti Alvis, Ph.D., RYT, is a private practitioner, mindfulness teacher, consultant, and therapeutic yoga educator. She offers training and consultation to therapists internationally, helping them to integrate the contemplative sciences into their clinical work.
In 2005, Debra was initiated into the Integral Yoga tradition and was given her spiritual name, Premashakti, by Sri Swami Satchidananda. She has completed professional Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Training (MBSR) with Dr. Jon Kabat Zinn, Mandala Teacher Training with Susanne Fincher, and has co-taught with Amy Weintraub, author of Yoga for Depression. She leads retreats at spiritual centers around the world. Over three decades of personal contemplative practice support her work as a psychotherapist, presenter, and consultant.
As faculty at the University of Georgia, Debra developed and led the Mind/Body program offering mindfulness and yogic based therapies, continuing education, and a clinical training program. She co-leads a research team investigating mindfulness.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy offers a new ways for to achieve positive therapeutic outcomes with difficult-to-treat clients. ACT can easily be integrated with current theoretical approaches to expedite clients’ progress.
Charlotte AHEC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5096. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Charlotte AHEC is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
Gabriela Staley MEd, 704-512-6523
