Practicing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Head and Heart: Understanding the Why Behind Each Intervention

This book will help readers balance the essential scientific concepts underlying Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with their clinical practice, reconnecting ACT with its behavioural therapeutic roots and Relational Frame Theory.

Lieve Bruyninx is the owner of Factor Psy, a mental health care training institute. She’s a psychologist and peer reviewed ACT trainer with 20 years of behavior therapy expertise.

Yvonne Barnes-Holmes is the Co-Founder of Perspectives Ireland and Co-Developer of Process-Based Behaviour Therapy (PBBT). She has 25 years of experience in behaviour therapy.

Ciara McEnteggart is the Co-Founder of Perspectives Ireland and Co-Developer of Process-Based Behaviour Therapy (PBBT). She has 15 years of experience in behaviour therapy.

Marjolein Vleugel has been working as a Healthcare Psychologist for more than 20 years. She is the founder and head trainer of Expertise Centrum ACT.

Roy Thewissen, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and behavioral therapist. He works as a freelancer and at the pain department at Adelante rehabilitation clinic in the Netherlands.