Help yourself and your clients reduce the risk of burnout using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Work burnout is skyrocketing among helping professionals. This 90-minute workshop is for anyone supporting people who are struggling with burnout: clients, supervisees, colleagues, or yourself. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-informed approaches offer unique, evidence-based additions to our understanding of burnout and to the standard interventions often used to treat it (Towey-Swift, Lauvrud, & Whittington, 2022). In this workshop, I’ll outline how an ACT framework can help clinicians use evidence-based individual and system-level practices to identify, alleviate, and prevent burnout.

What is different about Kerry’s approach to burnout?

• She actively engages the tension between the very real system-level drivers of burnout and the reality that meaningful relief often begins with individual change.
• She helps clinicians understand the connection between values and vulnerabilities—and why this matters for resilience and returning to work post-burnout.

This fully revised 2026 training includes two important additions:

• integrated shame and moral injury interventions, essential for those working in high-risk and service-focused professions
• a review of cognitive distortions common among helpers that fuel burnout (and what to do about them)

For more information, contact training@actwellington.co.nz