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Blending ACT + ERP: Values-Based Exposures for Everyday Therapy
1:00 PMFriday, January 24 2025
12:00 PMFriday, January 24 2025
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9:00 AMFriday, January 24 2025
8:00 AM
Grace Dickman (she/her) runs a small private group therapy practice based in Brooklyn, NY that helps queer creatives bring themselves more fully into the world. She has over 10 years of experience providing trauma-informed clinical care in various domestic and international settings, including nonprofits, schools, and hospitals. She specializes in trauma, OCD, identity, and LGBTQ+ concerns. She's fiercely passionate about gender justice, trans rights, and teaching others how to love themselves through complex trauma.
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is regarded as a specialized form of treatment used for specific clinical presentations such as OCD and phobias. Clients and clinicians alike are often intimidated by exposures, especially for those who usually gravitate towards mindfulness-based approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
In this workshop, we’ll teach you how to blend these two modalities to conduct flexible, values-based exposures with clients so they can move through fear, realize their resilience, and access safety in unexpected places - all at their own pace. We'll review concrete ways to adapt exposures for youth, trauma survivors, and clients in the foster care system. Participants will leave with a personalized “exposure menu” that they can use in their practice.
This course is eligible for 2 continuing education credits.
This course is suitable for Psychologists, LMHCs, MFTs, Social Workers, LPCs, and Counselors.
Intermediate
10-10:10am: Introduction, objectives, definitions
10:10-10:30am: ERP framework and techniques
10:30-10:40am: ACT and the role of values
10:40-10:45am: The ACT + ERP intersection
10:45-11:00am: ACT-based exposures in practice
11:00-11:25am: Create your own exposure menu
11:25-11:45am: Case examples
11:45-12pm: FAQ + closing
At the end of the workshop, the participant will be able to:
- List 2 ways to adapt exposures for various client populations.
- Identify 3 clinical benefits of exposure therapy.
- Utilize your own exposure menu for professional use.