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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy course

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Training: ACT Essentials.

ACT Essentials is a 3-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy training for professionals working in mental health and related fields in the USA. ACT Essentials is the benchmark for professionals who want an excellent introduction to ACT which will enable them to understand it and use it straight away. It is also the gateway to further ACT training including APT’s ACT Masterclass. The training is also approved by the American Psychological Association (APA).

Completion of the course results in 18 CE credits* and also gives you APT’s level one Accreditation in ACT, with the option of sitting in exam to obtain level two (free of charge) and from there through more study right up to APT's ACT Masterclass and level four Accreditation.

Founded in 1981, APT has grown to become a trusted source of gold-standard training, from introductory through to masterclass level. Over 150,000 mental health professionals have attended APT’s post-qualification courses, commissioned by numerous healthcare systems, hospitals, and providers.

APT’s ACT training uniquely combines built-in APT Accreditation with automatic access to our renowned post-course resources to help you support your clients. It is available for both teams and individuals, face-to-face or online, and can also count towards The APT Diploma in Psychological Therapies and The APT Diploma for working in Secure Psychiatric and Forensic Settings.

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Executive Summary:

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) moves away from focusing too closely on ‘symptom reduction’ towards teaching how to live in a stable and rewarding way. So it teaches how to get in touch with your values, how to act in accordance with them, how to be aware of ‘the you that is always there’, how to see your passing thoughts and feelings for just that, how to accept thoughts and feelings you don’t like without over-struggling with them, and so how to live mainly in the present.

Who should attend?

This is an ‘introductory’ course to ACT and people who attend normally fall into one of two categories:

1. Professionals who see patients in 1:1 treatment settings and have a significant degree of clinical skill.

2. 'Whole teams' (either in inpatient or community settings) seeking to add to their common approach.

What the course covers:

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At the end of this course, the learner will be able to:

What you receive as a result of attending the training:

You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course and access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT accreditation to Level 2 (note, the exam is inbuilt into the 'online anytime' version of the course).

Your registration lasts indefinitely, whilst your accreditation lasts for 3 years from the date of completion and is renewable.

Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 150,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.

CE Credits from the APA:

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*The Association for Psychological Therapies (APT) is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for Psychologists. The Association for Psychological Therapies (APT) maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Upon completion of this course you can apply for CE certification for an additional cost of $20 USD (for training purchased after 05/26/2023).

Requirements for completion: To be awarded CE credits for this course 100% attendance is required for live training. For the 'online anytime' (self-paced) version, you are required to complete the course in full and complete a multiple choice exam whereby a pass marks of 80% is required (failure on the third attempt would result in having to go back through the content again).

Note: there may be other professional licensing boards that accept CE credits earned from APA-approved sponsors. Because CE regulations vary by state and profession, we recommend that participants check with their state licensing board to inquire whether credits will be accepted for renewal of licensure. We do not have any authority over whether credits earned will be accepted, as this authority rests with the state licensing boards.

Instructor credentials and endorsements:

Note, all APT tutors are consultant clinical psychologists (or similar) and have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents and will not receive any commercial support prior to or during this program. Similarly, no benefit of endorsements have been received.


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Option 1: Online Anytime course:

A highly engaging pre-recorded course you can start any time you like – right now if you want. Price: $330 USD per person. The fee covers: 3 years access to the course, certification, registration, and Level 2 APT Accreditation by completing the course and inbuilt exam.

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If you don’t complete the course for some reason, then you can simply ask for your money back!

If you are a manager ordering multiple courses, and some of your team don’t complete them, you can ask us to transfer those courses to others in your team!

(Valid for up to 3 years from the date the training was assigned.)

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Option 2: Online Live course:

A live and interactive event hosted online via Zoom  (and you don’t even have to have your own Zoom account). Price: $590 USD per person. The fee covers: tuition, PDF workbook, certification, registration, and accreditation at APT’s Level 1, with option to sit the online exam (free-of-charge and in your own time) to upgrade to Level 2.

Available dates (courses run from 10am-4pm Eastern Time, unless otherwise stated):

  16-18 Feb 2026
  23-25 Sept 2026

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Option 3: Exclusive course for your organization:

We can deliver the course ‘online live’ (via Zoom or Teams) exclusively to you and your organization, for a group of up to 15 people. Price: $6,270 USD, extra delegates: $405 USD per person. Or, if you or a colleague are a senior mental health professional, you can apply to become an APT Tutor and, if your application is accepted, deliver the training in-house at half the standard cost (either face-to-face or live online).

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APT Accreditation

As a bona fide APT event, this course automatically has accreditation from The Association for Psychological Therapies. This means (i) that it contains the right amount of relevant information for its duration, and (ii) the information is presented in an engaging way, and in a way that will make it likely to be used after the course. APT verifies the accreditation by publishing the delegates' average ratings of relevance and presentation-quality for all its accredited courses. The accreditation is given value by over 150,000 professionals having attended APT courses.

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These live results also power APT’s acclaimed Accreditation System — so widely valued because it is evidence-based, drawing directly on the real-time ratings of professionals who have completed the training.

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* Feedback taken from the last 10 runnings of this course (each course has around 15 people attending).

** Feedback taken from the last 20 people completing the course. Delegates give a single overall rating to anytime courses.

If the course has run less than the stated number of times, the percentage score will be based on the number of times the course has been completed.

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APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the ACT Essentials course has received.

"Absolutely fabulous - this should be taught to everyone.”

"This was an excellent course with a very practical clinical focus. There was just the right balance between theory, clinical exercises and case discussion. It was informative, lively and fun!”

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