To purchase the music and directly support the artists click here: https://zulenadueto.bandcamp.com/album/luz-camino-y-gu-a I am joined by the marvelous Temple Morris, LCSW-C. She is a therapist/consultant in private practice at True North in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. She is a mover and shaker in the ACT community especially in the psychedelic special interest group. In this episode we talk abut helping clients prepare for their plant medicine journeys, and to coach people to use ACT processes on these inner voyages. We talk about the entheogenic/psychedelic renaissance. Also, we discuss how o ..read more

Into the heart of ACT (and really therapy) with Robyn Walser, PhD. Robyn has been an integral part of the development and dissemination of ACT for several decades. We discuss what it means to work from the heart, with presence and authenticity. Robyn has a new on demand course through praxiscet: Healing Trauma with ACT. Robyn’s website: http://www.tlconsultationservices.com/index.html.  To purchase the album of music on this podcast: https://zulenadueto.bandcamp.com/releases If you are interested in joining my a group consultation with me, email me at marcel@marceltassara.com ..read more

#33 with Henry Whitfield. We discuss his recent publication (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.727572/full), issues of self and content/process/context, and finish with a real-play demonstration of Henry leading me through a integration session. Henry is a peer reviewed ACT trainer. He has written, co-written and edited training manuals for ACT, TIR and FAP. As a visiting research fellow at Regents University London, he focuses his research on the development of ACT-consistent models for psychedelic-assisted therapy. His psychedelic plant medicine path has changed how he ..read more

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What you know about your Self? Join me as I mix it up with Dr. Louise McHugh to discuss this very important topic of The Self. She provides a friendly crash course in RFT and helps to show how RFT is useful in understanding different selfing repertoires. Dr. McHugh is associate professor of psychology at University College Dublin, a Fellow in the Association for Contextual Behavioral Sciences, and has contributed mightily to the contextual behavioral science view of the self. GO AND GET A COPY of her he book A Contextual Behavioral Guide to the Self: Theory and Practice. It's a must read for A ..read more

I’m joined by Dr. Mitch Fryling to discuss functional thinking and open the aperture a bit, from a causal way of interpretation, to a field perspective. Mitch is gifted at making Interbehavioral philosophy approachable and even fun. We dissect what “function” points at, public vs. private events, and problems with mentalistic thinking.  Artilcles discussed: Are Thoughts Private: https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/593/59335812001.pdf OVERCOMING THE PSEUDO-PROBLEM OF PRIVATE EVENTS IN THE ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mitch-Fryling/publication/272788235_Overcoming_the ..read more

Big number 30 with ACT and OCD ninja, Lisa Coyne, PhD. We discuss screen, how to value and shape valuing, OCD/ERP, and how to pivot when your bid to do exposure work is rejected.  Check out Lisa’s New England Center for OCD and Anxiety for training and consultation: https://www.newenglandocd.org/ If you are interested in group or individual consultation w/ me: marcel@marceltassara ..read more

From start to finish, this interview with Yash Bhambhani, PhD, is a palpable demonstration of mindfulness in action. Yash is a psychologist at an addiction treatment clinic at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, assistant professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. We discuss (and embody) how to go about appreciating in therapy. contact info for Yash: yashnpbhambhani@gmail.com https://ybhambha.wixsite.com/yashbhambhaniphd my contact info: marcel@marceltassara.com ..read more

So happy to bring you Luisa Canon, PsyD, BCBA-D. We discuss her functional approach to therapy, the embodiment of the CBS approach, and learning to trust yourself as a clinician. She is available for consultation: https://www.acttothrivela.com/contact I am also available for consultation, both individual and group: marcel@marceltassara.com ..read more

Part II with Steve Hayes, PhD. We dive into thinking and conceptualizing functionally, psychological flexibility and health, the importance of history, and we get into a therapy demo around people pleasing. Steve's website: https://stevenchayes.com/ my contact if interested in individual/group consultation: marcel@marceltassara.com Report of ACBS task force: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212144721000302 subscribe, like, review ..read more