ACT skills for supporting clients and sustaining clinicians: Parallel paths

ACT skills for supporting clients and sustaining clinicians: Parallel paths

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ACT skills for supporting clients and sustaining clinicians: Parallel paths

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

Date: November 25, 2025
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ET
Facilitator: Katy Albert, M.Ed., OCT, BCBA

Description: Working with clients and families navigating complex challenges—such as disability, illness, and medical complexity—can be both meaningful and profoundly demanding. This workshop is designed for professionals across mental health, healthcare, and education who support caregivers in these contexts and want to strengthen both their clinical skills and their own resilience. In these roles, it’s common to face the emotional and clinical challenge of helping caregivers through situations that cannot be changed—leaving providers drained and unsure how to move treatment or support forward.

This experiential workshop introduces Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as a compassionate, flexible approach to fostering wellbeing—for both those providing care and those receiving it. The training is delivered in two connected parts:

  1. Clinical Skills – Applying ACT to help caregivers navigate difficult or unchangeable circumstances while staying grounded in what matters most.
  2. Sustaining Clinicians – Using ACT to support your own wellbeing, resilience, and alignment with values as you care for caregivers.

As clinicians, we often learn alongside the caregivers we support — facing challenges, developing new skills, or finding purpose in the work. Through teaching, reflection, and hands-on exercises, participants will explore how the same ACT principles can be adapted to serve both client and clinician—transforming difficult moments into opportunities for connection, purpose, and strength.

Whether you work in mental health, healthcare, or education, this training offers strategies to sustain your effectiveness, your relationships, and your wellbeing—so you can keep showing up, even when it’s hard.

Learning objectives:

  • Describe the core principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and how they support psychological flexibility for both caregivers and clinicians.
  • Recognize common challenges in caregiving and clinical roles—such as experiential avoidance, cognitive fusion, and burnout—and identify how ACT processes can promote both competence and wellbeing.
  • Apply key experiential ACT tools (e.g., the choice point, values clarification, defusion) to support emotional regulation and values-based action with clients.
  • Use ACT strategies to strengthen self-compassion, wellbeing, resilience, and alignment with values in the clinician role.

Register now to strengthen your ACT skills to support caregivers through complex challenges—while building resilience and sustaining your own wellbeing as a clinician.

 

Registration fee: General - $150  Save 20% with code FEATURE20 making your investment $120!

For full program overview and registration details please visit: https://cvent.me/xREvLr

 

Facilitator Bio:
Katy Albert, M.Ed., OCT, BCBA, Katy is a mental health counsellor and parent coach at The Redpath Centre, and in private practice, specializing in autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and emotional behavioural disorders. She is dedicated to providing mental health support to children and adolescents who are neurodivergent and helps families with a range of challenges including: anxiety, depression, OCD, executive functioning, emotional regulation, interpersonal skills, sleep difficulties, school refusal, aggression and caregiver stress. She is an Ontario Certified Teacher and received her Masters of Education in Developmental Psychology and Education before pursuing certification in Applied Behaviour Analysis (BCBA).

Katy has worked as a therapist, counsellor and consultant for over 10 years and has extensive training and clinical experience delivering cognitive behavioural interventions such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and dialectal behaviour therapy (DBT). Katy integrates her various areas of expertise (education, child development, behavioural analysis, and mental health) to offer solution-focused, trauma-informed and affirming care to the clients she supports. She is also a regular speaker/trainer for educators and mental health professionals. 
 

Continuing Education (CE) information: 3 CE hours

SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) to offer continuing education (CE) hours. The number of eligible CE hours are outlined within each program. SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute maintains responsibility for the programs.

Other licensing boards and professional organizations will grant continuing education credits for attendance at their own discretion; participants will need to submit the course outline and Certificate of Participation for their consideration.

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