ACT Training Days
Commission Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Training for your Service
Practical ACT training for NHS and healthcare teams delivering psychological interventions.
Whether your team works in pain services, physical health, talking therapies, mental health, or long-term conditions, training can be tailored to your service, your population, and your team’s level of experience.
Available online or in person, with full-day and multi-day options.
Training your team can actually use in practice
You are not simply looking for a model. You are looking for training that will be relevant, practical, and worth the investment.
You want your team to leave with a clearer understanding of ACT, greater confidence in applying it, and skills they can use in real clinical conversations.
That means training needs to do more than explain the theory. It needs to help clinicians know what to do, why they are doing it, and how to adapt their approach to the people they work with.
Tailored ACT training for real service settings
Training can be commissioned for teams working in:
- Pain services
- Physical health and long-term conditions
- Talking therapies
- Mental health services
- Psychologically informed multidisciplinary services
Each training day can be tailored to your service context, such as:
- Chronic pain
- Long-term conditions
- Anxiety and depression
- Adjustment to health conditions
- Emotional avoidance and stuck patterns
- Therapist wellbeing and resilience
This helps the training feel immediately relevant rather than generic or overly abstract.
A practical, engaging teaching format
Training is designed to be active, clinically grounded, and easy to apply.
Depending on the focus of the day, sessions can include:
- Clear teaching of ACT principles and processes
- Case examples linked to your service population
- Experiential exercises that bring the model to life
- Structured skills practice to support implementation
- Reflection on therapist processes as well as client processes
- Discussion of how to apply ACT flexibly in real-world settings
Experiential work is always linked clearly to therapeutic principles and evidence-based practice.
Skills practice is not an optional extra. It is a key part of helping staff develop confidence and translate learning into clinical work.
Training Options
Introduction to acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
A practical foundation for teams who are new to ACT, or who want a clearer and more confident grasp of the model.
This option can help staff:
- Build confidence in working with their client group
- Understand the core principles and processes of ACT
- Apply ACT with greater clarity and consistency
- Connect ACT ideas to case formulation and intervention choices
beyond the basics
For teams who already have some familiarity with ACT and want to deepen their application, flexibility, and clinical impact.
This option can help clinicians:
- Apply ACT more skilfully in complex presentations
- Strengthen formulation and functional analysis
- Work more effectively with stuckness and avoidance
- Develop greater moment-to-moment flexibility in sessions
- Refine their use of experiential and behavioural methods
Therapist Wellbeing Training
ACT-informed training to support staff wellbeing, resilience, and sustainable practice.
This option can help teams:
- Notice common patterns of overload, struggle, and self-pressure
- Respond more flexibly to stress in demanding roles
- Build practical skills for presence, perspective, and values-based action
- Support wellbeing in a way that feels psychologically informed and credible
This can be commissioned as a standalone day or discussed as part of a wider training plan.
Experience you can trust
Jim Lucas has delivered ACT training over many years to a range of services and professional groups, with a focus on helping clinicians use ACT in ways that are both grounded and adaptable.
Previous training has included work with:
- Long-term conditions services
- Talking Therapies
- Physical Health services across the UK
Training is shaped not only by knowledge of the ACT model, but by experience teaching it in ways that help clinicians integrate it into everyday practice.
About Jim Lucas
ACBS Peer-reviewed ACT Trainer, Therapist since 2003, Author & Course Creator
Jim has mentored and taught many therapists to effectively integrate ACT into their practice (after thinking he’ll never be as good as his teachers).
“Moving from theory to practice can be highly challenging, mainly when working with clients with unique complexities. I recognise the uncertainty from the early years of practising a new model.
After many hours of therapy practice, working closely with ACT experts, and applying it personally, I have come to know ACT intimately. I truly appreciate the opportunity to share my insights and show therapists how to help clients build psychological flexibility.”
Delivered Training For
Trusted by hundreds of ACT practitioners across the UK and beyond.
Online or in-person delivery
Training is available:
- Online
- In person
- As a full day
- Across multiple days
This makes it easier to match the format to your service’s needs, location, availability, and budget.
If you are looking for a one-off training event, that can be arranged. If you are considering a broader development pathway, there is also scope to discuss follow-up consultation, supervision, or additional training.
A format that suits your service and budget
Training budgets are often limited, and services need to use CPD funding carefully.
If you are interested in ACT training but are unsure what is realistic within your current budget, you are very welcome to get in touch.
We can discuss a format that reflects:
- Your team size
- Your training goals
- Preferred delivery method
- Available budget
The aim is to find an option that is both useful and workable for your service.
What your team can gain
Depending on the training focus, your team may leave with:
- Greater confidence in understanding and applying ACT
- A clearer grasp of the principles behind ACT interventions
- More flexibility in responding to complexity and stuckness
- Practical skills that transfer into therapy sessions
- Stronger ability to adapt ACT to your service context
- Renewed engagement with psychologically informed practice
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Get in Touch
If you are considering ACT training for your service, the next step is simple.
Please complete the enquiry form to tell us about:
Once we receive your enquiry, we’ll arrange a call to discuss the most suitable option.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
This training is designed for NHS and healthcare teams delivering psychological interventions, including services in pain, physical health, long-term conditions, talking therapies, and mental health.
Yes. The Introduction to ACT option is well suited to teams who are new to ACT or want a clearer foundation in the model.
Yes. Beyond the Basics is designed for clinicians who already have some familiarity with ACT and want to deepen their application, formulation, and clinical flexibility.
Yes. Training can be adapted to your service context, client group, and learning goals. This may include work focused on chronic pain, long-term conditions, anxiety, depression, adjustment, or staff wellbeing.
Yes. Training can be delivered online or in person, depending on your preference and location.
Training is typically delivered as a full day or across multiple days, depending on your needs.
Training may include teaching of ACT principles and processes, case examples, experiential exercises, structured skills practice, and opportunities to link learning directly to clinical work.
Yes. Follow-up support can be discussed where helpful, including consultation, supervision, or additional training. This is optional and can be shaped around your service needs.
Costs vary depending on the format, length, location, and level of tailoring required. Please get in touch with details of your service and training needs, and we can discuss the most suitable option.
Use the enquiry form on this page to tell us about the training you are looking for, and we will arrange a call to discuss next steps.
Intro Heading
Get in Touch
If you are considering ACT training for your service, the next step is simple.
Please complete the enquiry form to tell us about:
Once we receive your enquiry, we’ll arrange a call to discuss the most suitable option.