SchemACT Online Training Program
Building Meaningful Relationships
Integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Schema Therapy, and Somatic Techniques to Treat Interpersonal Problems
An introductory clinician training that combines ACT, Schema Therapy, Somatic Psychology, and Nonviolent Communication — so you can help people strengthen relationships, create healthy boundaries, and build authentic intimacy.
Earn 7 CE Credits
Continuing education for psychologists, counselors, social workers, and other mental health professionals — completed online at your own pace.
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About the program
SchemACT: Enhancing Relationships Through Online Training
This online training presents a holistic therapeutic approach that integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Schema Therapy, Somatic Psychology, and Nonviolent Communication to help individuals strengthen relationships, create healthy boundaries, and build authentic intimacy.
This introductory course identifies 11 core beliefs (schemas) and relational patterns that damage relationships. Treatment processes drawn from the ACT model — and adapted for problematic interpersonal behaviors — are covered through a clear conceptual framework, role-plays, client demonstration sessions, and experiential exercises.
Clinical skills
Gain practical skills for overcoming barriers to healthy relationships
You will learn how to work with individuals to identify negative relationship patterns, clarify values, and overcome barriers to values-based actions in relationships.
You will gain practical skills for working with thoughts, feelings, and sensations that act as barriers to values — including defusion and mindfulness exercises for distancing from painful stories, somatic techniques for embracing difficult emotions and sensations, and behavioral interventions for helping people take effective actions in relationships.
All of the tools you need to help people break free from their conditioning and develop healthy, enlivening, and fulfilling relationships.
Limited-time offer
Enroll today to start building meaningful relationships — and get 50% off
Self-paced online training with lifetime access, 16 expert modules, and 7 CE credits for mental health professionals.
Curriculum outcomes
What you'll learn
This protocol teaches proven techniques for overcoming barriers to authentic connection and healing interpersonal trauma — skills you can use immediately in clinical and coaching work.
- The role of schemas/core beliefs in relationships
- Somatic techniques for embracing emotions
- Behavioral tools for being intentional in relationships
- How to apply Nonviolent Communication to increase intimacy
- Negotiation skills for reaching win/win agreements
- Mindfulness and defusion exercises to distance from unhelpful thoughts
- Cognitive interventions for overcoming limiting beliefs
- Behavioral tools for breaking free from conditioned responses and unhelpful patterns in relationships
- Behavioral strategies for healing attachment wounds and building authentic connections
- Self-compassion techniques for expanding window of tolerance
- Tools for clarifying values and values-based actions in relationships
- Somatic interventions for connecting to and embodying values
Transformation
This workshop will help you
Move from understanding patterns intellectually to practicing new ways of relating — for yourself and for the people you support.
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Understand how your conditioning, core beliefs, and traumas impact your relational patterns.
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Change your relationship with difficult thoughts, feelings, and sensations that act as barriers to connection.
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Learn skills and tools to take effective action, live your values, and develop fulfilling relationships.
Program details
What's included in the SchemACT to Strengthen Relationships training
Everything you need to learn the protocol, practice the skills, and earn continuing education credit — with lifetime access to the course materials.
Included in the program
- Lifetime access to all content, including future promotions
- 8 hours of video instruction, role-plays, and practical exercises
- Access to SchemACT membership portal
- 7 CE credits for mental health professionals
- Demonstrations of client sessions
- 16 expert modules for strengthening relationships
- Client resources including typable worksheets, experiential exercises, and tracking logs
- Access to private online community
- Learn anywhere, anytime, at your own pace
Learning objectives
- List 11 interpersonal schemas (core beliefs) that perpetuate relationship distress.
- Recognize schema avoidance strategies that drive interpersonal problems.
- Provide a formulation that integrates ACT and Schema Therapy.
- Identify key values in relationships.
- Clarify values-based actions in relationships.
- Identify thoughts and feelings that act as barriers to values.
- Apply the six ACT processes to overcome barriers to values-based actions.
- Use mindfulness skills to identify moments of choice to engage in values-based actions.
- Utilize somatic techniques to work with schema-driven feelings and sensations that act as barriers to values-based actions.
Audience
Who is this for?
SchemACT is designed for people who work with relationships — and anyone who wants a clear, evidence-informed framework for building authentic intimacy.
- Mental health professionals: psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, and related clinicians
- Students: trainees, interns, and associates
- Coaches: leadership trainers, executive coaches, relationship coaches, and life coaches
- Educators: teachers, professors, and instructors
- Anyone interested in learning how to strengthen relationships and build authentic intimacy
16 expert modules
Curriculum
Expand your toolbox with this expert-led SchemACT program while earning continuing education credits from home. Work through all 16 lessons at your own pace.
Lesson 1: The Importance of Relationships
Opening statements about the importance of relationships and the role of schemas.
Lesson 2: Theoretical Framework of ACT
Review the theoretical framework of ACT, including Relational Frame Theory and Functional Contextualism.
Lesson 3: SchemACT Formulation
Learn how to conceptualize clients using a SchemACT formulation, and see a discussion of primary pain, secondary pain, and experiential avoidance.
Lesson 4: Understanding Schemas
Understand why integrating schemas with ACT is crucial when treating interpersonal problems.
Lesson 5: Steps of Treatment
Review an in-depth description of each step of treatment and the intervention process.
Lesson 6: Identifying Schemas
A step-by-step guide for identifying schemas and understanding each of the key interpersonal schemas.
Lesson 7: Identifying Schema Avoidance Behaviors
Helping clients identify the experiential avoidance strategies they use when triggered in relationships.
Lesson 8: Providing the Formulation
Sharing the formulation and getting buy-in for treatment. Providing your case conceptualization with clients and using creative hopelessness to obtain consent for treatment.
Lesson 9: Clarifying Values
Demonstrations of exercises, metaphors, and ACT techniques for clarifying values.
Lesson 10: Committed Action
Learn to identify specific values-based actions to replace old schema avoidance behaviors.
Lesson 11: Identifying Barriers to Values
Identify the schema-driven thoughts, feelings, sensations, and urges that act as barriers to values-based actions.
Lesson 12: Overcoming Barriers
Use the six ACT processes to overcome barriers to values-based actions.
Lesson 13: Overcoming Barriers with Defusion
Practice defusion techniques, exercises, and metaphors to work with schema-driven thoughts that act as barriers to values.
Lesson 14: Overcoming Barriers with Self as Context
Utilizing self-as-context to cultivate flexible perspective-taking.
Lesson 15: Overcoming Barriers with Present Moment Acceptance
Working with emotions that show up as barriers to values-based actions. Using mindfulness, self-compassion, present-moment contact, acceptance, and somatic experiencing to embrace difficult schema-driven feelings.
Lesson 16: Overcoming Barriers with Emotion Exposure
See how using emotion exposure increases willingness to stay in contact with difficult internal experiences.
Participant feedback
What participants are saying
“This was the most eye-opening course I've taken in years. Very informative and immediately applicable to clinical work.”
Molly Kierein, PsyD
“Fantastic course! The pacing was fantastic, role-plays were helpful, content very relatable and practical! Much appreciated.”
Brooke Armstrong, PhD
“Outstanding material — wish it were even longer. The role-plays and identifying avoidance behaviors were especially helpful. Thank you!”
Lauren Korshak, MFT
“Wonderful course, very informative, concrete steps, and the role playing was great — helpful to watch it in action.”
Joseph Assouline, PsyD
Limited-time offer
Enroll today to start building meaningful relationships — and get 50% off
Self-paced online training with lifetime access, 16 expert modules, and 7 CE credits for mental health professionals.