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About ACT
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a contemporary
form of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) that has shown much promise
in helping clients with a wide range of emotional and behavioral
difficulties. ACT introduces a comprehensive model of therapy including
a creative set of metaphors and experiential exercises to help clients
(a) move away from unworkable change strategies, (b) make healthy
contact with thoughts, feelings, and other private reactions they have
feared and avoided, (c) re-connect with their deepest values to set a
direction for change and to motivate change, and (d) experience their
struggles differently and in a manner that permits them to move forward
with their lives now.
This Workshop
This one-day training is designed for therapists and other
healthcare workers in stressful, high-demand settings prone to burnout.
Other details pending.
Please check back soon.
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 Dr.
Joel Guarna is a licensed psychologist in the state of Maine.
He earned his PhD from Bowling Green State University in 2000
and trained at the Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology as a
predoctoral intern and postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Guarna
later served as a staff psychologist in the Department of
Veterans Affairs Healthcare System in Boston. During this
time, he provided individual, couples, and group treatment to
veterans with co-occurring substance use and mental health
disorders. He directed an intensive outpatient program for
veterans with addictions at the Brockton VAMC. He provided
training and supervision to psychologists-in-training and
psychiatry residents as a Clinical Instructor of Psychology in
the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Guarna began work in private practice in 2005 and
now manages his own practice,
White
Pine Behavioral Health LLC, in Portland,
Maine. Dr. Guarna’s areas of interest and
specialization include Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies
(CBT), Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), mind/body
health and mindfulness-based therapies, and treatment of
anxiety and mood disorders, trauma and PTSD, and
addictions.
He was introduced to ACT in 1999 and has attended and
given numerous talks and trainings on ACT over the past
several years.
Dr. Guarna's ACT Profile
Dr.
Guarna's Website |
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