Instructions on how to edit testimonials
Find the first item called “Testimonial [Template] that is saved as a draft, hover over it, click on the 3 dots and then click “Duplicate”. The system will create a duplicate with a testimonial preset according to our format and open the new item.
Hit “Edit” and add the “blog post” title. The recommended format will be "Name Surname, Job Title of/at Organization Name (Category)”. Your categories are:
Coaching
Coaching for Individuals
Coaching for Organizations
Training
ACT Training
EET Training
Books
WYFINATI Book
EET Book
ACT Book
You can create more categories if needed.
Click “Save” and then “Exit”, and then hover over the newly created draft item → 3 dots → “Settings”. That’s where we add the rest of the content.
In the “Content” tab of the popup window, fill in your excerpt—this will be the visible part of the testimonial. The reusable template has a preset and guidelines on formatting.
In the “Options” tab, go to “Categories” and start typing the relevant category. You can add multiple categories. You can also create new categories by typing the category name and hitting the “Enter” key.
In the same “Options” tab, go to “Status”, change it to “Published” and select the date & time to publish and arrange your new testimonial. This is how you can change the order of the testimonials from the same category. If you don’t have a preference about the order, leave current date & time. The new testimonial will automatically appear in the relevant testimonials summary on the dedicated page where we filter the content exactly by categories.
To edit an existing testimonial, go to its “Settings” and edit the "excerpt. Saved changes will be automatically applied to summary blocks that contain this testimonial.
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Rachel Collis, Executive Leadership Coach and Instructor, Graduate School Of Business, Queensland University of Technology (Coaching)
A formidable blend of evidence-based expertise, interpersonal skillfulness and sophisticated systems awareness.
Aprilia is quick to go to the heart of any matter and to conceptualize not only how and why people may be failing to thrive and perform but also what they need in order to excel. Aprilia is highly effective at gaining trust, co-creating targeted goals and managing multiple and sometimes competing agendas. Aprilia's style is distinctive - warm and playful yet disruptive. She has a willingness to name the patterns she is observing - but in a way that always communicates that she is completely in her client's corner. She works as a thought partner with her clients, supporting them with creative inquiry around complex, high stakes dynamics and projects. Aprilia has also developed several innovative research-based trainings around emotional efficacy, psychological flexibility, and resilience to help people to increase their wellbeing and performance.
Rachel Collis, Executive Leadership Coach and Instructor, Graduate School Of Business, Queensland University of Technology
Dr. Rob Archer, executive coach and creator of High Performance Routines (Coaching)
Aprilia is one of the best and most authoritative coaches in the industry!
Aprilia is incredibly knowledgeable, a thought leader and trainer in the field of psychology and coaching (as her publications show), and all this combined with deep industry experience — a rare combination. But above all, Aprilia is someone I recommend because she is warm, relatable, empathetic, practical and creative — a master of both the science and art of coaching. Highly recommended.
Dr. Rob Archer, executive coach and creator of High Performance Routines
Dave Steunebrink, President & Owner of Showdown Management (Coaching)
Extraordinary consultant and executive coach!
Aprilia's profound understanding of leadership and organizational culture allowed her to quickly assess and develop training specific to our needs. Working 1:1 and in a group setting, she helped us clarify our company vision, brand, values and how they translate into workplace communications and culture. She also helped us learn how to better negotiate and diffuse conflict in high-profile sensitive client situations. In addition, she has helped me improve a range of management and leadership skills. I would highly recommend her to any business leader who wants to take themselves and/or their team to the next level.
Dave Steunebrink, President & Owner of Showdown Management
Dan Gerstein, CEO at Gotham Ghostwriters (Coaching)
Aprilia has a real gift for seeing peoples perspectives and building trust.
I have worked with a lot of different kinds of people in the consulting world. and you are as creative, intuitive, and effective as Aprilia. She has a real gift for seeing peoples perspectives and building trust. That intern makes her an extremely valuable ally and advisor to a broad range of businesses and organizations that must connect and communicate with a diverse range of people, particularly when it comes to challenging issues.
Dan Gerstein, CEO at Gotham Ghostwriters
Dr. Aprilia West Quote
Too often psychotherapy holds clients as broken or disordered. My holistic approach is grounded in behavioral science to go past the symptoms to the root causes to help clients learn to powerfully navigate challenge, stress and distress and build creative inspiring lives.
Dr. Aprilia West
Lisa S, LCSW
Dr. Aprilia West’s ACT training is the best I’ve taken
This was the best ACT training I’ve taken. Dr. West gave an accessible and engaging introduction to psychological flexibility, and how it differed from traditional CBT. She broke down all the psychological flexibility processes in a way that you could understand them. She provided examples of metaphors, experiential practices and did live demonstrations so we could see what ACT looks like in action! I highly recommend this training for anyone who is interested in becoming an ACT Therapist or sharpening their ACT skills.
Lisa S, LCSW
Former Executive Coaching Client (Coaching for Organizations)
Optimized engagement and performance
Dr. West was able to help our company optimize engagement and performance by disrupting complex, longstanding and deeply embedded obstacles in our culture. Our C-suite shifted from an authoritarian leadership style to practicing psychologically flexibility. We have reinvigorated relationships and results at every level. She helped us see that what is good for people, is good for business.
Former Executive Coaching Client
Kirk Stroshal (WYFINATI Book)
A must-read.
Dr. West offers a brief, structured, highly practical emotion efficacy skills training, integrating the latest evidence-based practices of mindfulness, acceptance, and emotion processing strategies in a masterful way. The examples, reflections, and client dialogues really make the concepts come alive. And the experiential practice will help people learn and retain these important skills for wellbeing and performance.
Kirk Stroshal, PhD, cofounder of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and coauthor of "Brief Interventions for Radical Change"
Victoria Lemle Beckner (EETT)
Dr. West’s EET training offers clinicians a powerful, clear protocol for helping clients navigate difficult emotions.
I loved this course! Dr. West's EET training teaches clinicians a brief, powerful and clear protocol for helping clients navigate difficult emotion states in order to support effective, value-driven life choices. Dr. West is an exceptionally skilled and delightful teacher, engaging participants in a warm, curious and playful way. She combines didactics with experiential practice so that I could quickly integrate the EET interventions and use them immediately in my practice. My clients have appreciated having this tight package of tools, and I would highly recommend this training for clinicians of any theoretical approach!
Victoria Lemle Beckner, Ph.D., San Francisco Group for Evidence-Based Psychotherapy, Assistant Clinical Professor at University of California San Francisco, lead author of "Conquering Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder"
Zoe Barnow (EETT)
Dr. Aprilia West’s EET training is engaging and accessible, blending CBT skills with experiential exercises effectively.
Dr. Aprilia West is a very engaging, skillful and dynamic trainer. I primarily work from a psychodynamic/attachment lens but was interested in adding some CBT skills to my repertoire. Throughout the training Dr. West incorporated a balance of didactic-style teaching and experiential exercises—both as a larger group and in dyads— which helped me stay present, consolidate what I was learning, and gave me a chance to apply the new knowledge immediately. She also made great use of clinical and personal examples to facilitate the learning. Even with my limited CBT experience I found this training to be relevant, accessible and applicable to my clinical work, and have been able to use EET skills successfully with clients in my private practice! I also purchased the EET book and have found it to be an essential reference when I've wanted to use Emotion Efficacy interventions with clients in session. I would highly recommend Dr. West’s EET training to anyone working with clients who struggle with low emotion efficacy.
Zoe Barnow, PsyD, Clinical Psychologist, private practice
Josh Hillis (EETT)
Dr. Aprilia West’s EET training offers coaches a clear, powerful system to enhance clients' emotional efficacy.
If you are a coach whose clients would be interested in developing more emotion efficacy, I strongly recommend taking Dr. Aprilia West’s Emotion Efficacy Therapy (EET) training. EET is extremely unique in how clear and complete a system it is. The structure is understandable and immediately useful for clients, while session flow and experiential process is a powerful toolbox for coaches. On top of her gift for creating systems, Dr. West is adept at both teaching the protocol and demonstrating its functional and flexible nature in real plays. Finally, while there are other trainings available to coaches that are led by psychologists, few are also versed in coaching. That Dr. West does both therapy and coaching--and can really speak to coaching--makes her EET training a rare and valuable opportunity for coaches who want to help their clients develop a more powerful relationship with their emotions.
Josh Hillis, Head Coach and Curriculum Design, GMB Eating Skills, author of “Lean and Strong: Eating Skills, Psychology, and Workouts”
Stephanie Catella (EETT)
Dr. West’s training was one of the most valuable, making EET a staple in my practice with immediate results!
Dr. West’s training was by far one of the most valuable trainings I've ever attended. She has a natural talent for pairing the strong scientific underpinnings of the EET protocol with ample experiential exercises to quickly develop competency. She also provided a strong rationale for each element of EET and offered opportunities to learn from her and practice new skills in a supportive way. She provided helpful constructive feedback and thoughtfully checked in throughout the training to ensure everyone understood the material (as we had varying levels of experience). Her warmth and expertise made it easy to ask questions and her responses always thoughtfully cut to the crux of the issue. I readily used EET with confidence with clients the following week! EET has become a staple in my practice.
Stephanie Catella, Clinical Psychologist & former Director, Berkeley Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Clinic
Amy R. Murrell (WYFINATI Book)
A trove of practical tips.
Dr. Aprilia West writes in a way that seamlessly blends pop culture and evidence-based practice. Dr. West guides readers on a journey that helps nurture flexible relationships with their emotions, empowering them to act upon what matters most. She provides entertaining and informative case examples, applied exercises, and experiential scripts. This book provides a trove of practical tips for regulation and resilience building; I highly recommend it.
Amy R. Murrell, PhD, Licensed Psychologist and author of "The Becca Epps Series"
Victoria Lemle Beckner (WYFINATI Book)
Rethink what you know about your emotions…
This delightful and brilliant book is guaranteed to make you RETHINK what you know about emotions, your choices and what’s possible for your life. With her signature playfulness and eloquence, Dr. West artfully weaves together storytelling, examples and evidence-based skills into a highly accessible format to help us unplug from unhelpful default reactions and bravely stretch for the best possible version of ourselves.
Victoria Lemle Beckner, PhD, Associate Clinical Professor at University of California, San Francisco, and coauthor of "Conquering Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder"
Robyn D. Walse (ACT Book)
A fabulous way to regularly practice living well and living with meaning.
The ACT For Your Best Life card deck is a fabulous way to regularly practice living well and living with meaning. With annotations and exercises, each card supplies the opportunity to tune into life and values, bringing awareness to experience and presence to what it means to be alive…and connected. I look forward to offering this deck to clients, friends, and family. I hope everyone finds the same benefit in these practical and easy-to-implement suggestions that I do.
Thanks, Dr. West, for creating these beautiful and life-promoting cards. What a gift!
Robyn D. Walser, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist and author of "Heart of ACT"
Louise Hayes (ACT Book)
A wonderful tool that makes ACT come alive!
As a therapist I can imagine using the ACT for your Best Life Card Deck in multiple ways: drawing a card in session and discussing what it might be like to live with that quality or asking clients to take a card for home practice. Or, as self-guided practice you could choose a card randomly on the spot or with intention. Lots of wonderful ways to snapshot ACT processes and make them come alive— in session, at home or on your own. The deck is also a great learning asset for practitioners.
Louise Hayes, PhD, Clinical Psychologist and co-author of "What Makes You Stronger"
Amy R. Murrell (ACT Book)
I highly recommend this tool by Dr. Aprilia West!
The ACT For Your Best Life cards have clear and novel prompts to help people pause, get curious, and show up to what matters most to them.
Amy R. Murrell, PhD, Licensed Psychologist and author of "The Becca Epps Series"
Janina Scarlett (ACT Book) (Copy)
Creative and interactive to work with clients in a fun, playful manner.
ACT for Your Best Life is a creative and interactive deck that can function in many capacities to teach clients the key elements of acceptance and commitment therapy in a fun, playful manner.
Janina Scarlett, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist and author of "Superhero Therapy Psychologist"
Rob Archer (ACT Book)
Highly recommended!
The ACT For Your Best Life card deck is like having an ACT therapist or coach in your back pocket. This is a great resource for anyone who wants to tap into their full potential by increasing their psychological flexibility.
Rob Archer, PhD, Executive Coach & Consultant, Director at Cognacity, and Founder of The Career Psychologist