Evidence-Based
Trainings
for Coaches &
Clinicians
Practical, research-backed skill development you can apply the same day you learn it.
Training professionals to be better and do better.
Dr. West offers live and on-demand training programs for coaches, clinicians, and helping professionals seeking evidence-based tools for their practice.
"With deep expertise in both therapy and coaching, Dr. West's training is a rare and valuable opportunity for professionals seeking to help clients develop a more powerful relationship with their emotions and choices."
Josh HillisHead Coach & Curriculum Design, GMB Eating Skills · Author of Lean and Strong
Empower your clients to harness their emotions, design their choices, and do what matters most.
Your clients make 35,000 choices every day, and an estimated 98% of those choices are made by fast, automatic emotional reactions. Emotion efficacy is the ability — and belief in one's ability — to harness emotional experience, decode emotions, and act on what matters most. Emotional Efficacy Therapy (EET) blends ACT, DBT, and exposure therapy into a brief, experiential protocol that helps clients learn to respond intentionally to emotion triggers and take values-aligned action. An estimated 75% of therapy clients struggle with low emotion efficacy, making this training essential for accelerating client results. A growing body of research shows EET significantly increases emotion regulation and distress tolerance while reducing anxiety, depression, trauma symptoms, and addiction relapse rates.
- 7 learning modules with video instruction and recorded demos
- 40+ NEW handouts and worksheets ready to use with clients
- Instructional decks for individual, group, or training settings
- Access to guided online emotional efficacy practice
- Optional live practice sessions to build confidence
- Reference handouts, homework prompts, and experiential scripts
- Decode emotion triggers (defaults + values)
- Observe and label emotional "STUF" (Sensations, Thoughts, Urges, Feelings)
- Help clients surf emotion waves instead of reacting
- Clarify and act on values in moments of choice
- Regulate emotions to act on what matters most
- Track the function of actions using the WTF? inquiry
- Practice skills in an activated state so learning sticks
- Recognize common presentations of low emotion efficacy
- Identify underlying psychological processes that inhibit effectiveness
A 1-day training taking you through the complete ACT model using process-based cognitive-behavioral strategies.
Getting stuck when working with psychologically inflexible clients is common. Despite powerful clinical tools, progress can feel minimal. This happens because you need to know not just WHAT to do, but HOW to create the context for transformation. Psychological flexibility is the ability to maintain an open, curious, skillful relationship with experience while adapting to situational demands and staying focused on what matters most. Research across over 1,000 trials shows psychological flexibility improves physical and mental health, workplace performance, self-efficacy, resilience, and team dynamics.
Skews, R., West, A., Archer, R. (2021). Acceptance and Commitment Coaching in the Workplace. In: Positive Psychology Coaching in the Workplace. Springer, Cham. · Archer, Rob et al. (2024). Increasing workforce psychological flexibility through organization-wide training. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 33, 100799.
- Identify core underlying processes related to mental health and wellbeing
- Distinguish between the 6 psychological flexibility processes in the ACT hexaflex model
- Apply "open" skills to address experiential avoidance
- Utilize "aware" skills to address cognitive fusion and self-as-content
- Demonstrate "engage" skills to address lack of meaning and purposeful action
- Conduct experiential exercises to enhance learning, retention, and recall
- Work with anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, trauma/PTSD, and compulsive behaviors
Elevate your coaching practice with a powerful process-based approach for increasing wellbeing and performance.
For too long, psychology has focused on helping people feel better by eliminating discomfort. But wellbeing and performance don't depend on feeling good. People with high psychological flexibility can face difficult emotions and do hard things that matter. This live 3-part training series teaches cutting-edge, evidence-based interventions to help your clients increase psychological flexibility. Even if you're new to psychological flexibility, this program provides the theory, application, and practice you need to use it with clients immediately. Space is limited to the first 15 participants. A limited number of scholarships are available for coaches working in developing nations.
- New handouts and worksheets with diagrams, reflections, and experiential exercises
- Instructional decks for individual, group, or training settings
- Live coaching demos to observe skills in action
- Experiential partner practice in breakout rooms
- Define psychological flexibility and its core components
- Design goals using the principle of "workability"
- Apply mindfulness skills to increase emotion awareness and acceptance
- Apply mental agility skills to increase defusion and flexible selfing
- Apply "meaningful move" skills to increase values-based action
- Track psychological flexibility processes with clients in-session
- Design behavioral experiments to increase psychological flexibility
- Model psychological flexibility as a co-created context
Registration is currently closed. Register your interest and you'll be first to know when the next cohort opens.
A novel parts work approach integrating ACT and IFS to increase psychological flexibility.
Workshop
Working with different parts of ourselves is an effective way to improve how we relate to our Self. When parts are more clearly differentiated, we can integrate sometimes conflicting — and sometimes harmonious — interests and desires to become more psychologically flexible. Flexible Selfing is a non-pathologizing approach that takes a "no bad parts" stance. By exploring the functional nature of parts in context, clients learn to integrate aspects of themselves with awareness and compassion — leading to increased choicefulness. This 2-session workshop integrates a contextual behavioral view of the self (ACT) with parts work (IFS). Includes didactic instruction, experiential practice, live demos, and Q&A.
- Define psychological flexibility and the 3 levels of selfing
- Describe the relationship between selfing and psychological flexibility
- Identify the values-based function of parts and behavior in context
- Identify and name parts using method acting techniques
- Use experiential exercises to integrate experience and mobilize values-based action
- Help clients see their self as multi-leveled, multi-perspective, and integrated
Registration is currently closed. Register your interest for the next opening.
A 4-hour introductory training teaching how to help clients develop more powerful relationships with their emotions and choices.
Cohort
Helping clients be skillful with their emotions is fundamental to coaching. Yet there's a lack of training in the coaching field about the role of emotion and how to work with it responsibly. Many coaches avoid emotion work because they lack skills or worry about overstepping ethical bounds. An estimated 38% of coaching clients struggle with low emotion efficacy. Unless you've learned the fundamentals of emotion psychology and concrete skills, you're unlikely to help clients tap their full potential. This course is grounded in contextual behavioral science and positive psychology, designed to help you develop an ethical, trauma-informed, evidence-based approach to emotion work in coaching.
- Certificate of completion
- PDF download of client-ready materials
- Access to on-demand experiential practice
- Distinguish working with emotion in coaching versus therapy
- Describe the role of emotions in the psychology of wellbeing and performance
- Distinguish emotional signals from emotional defaults
- Describe the 4 core skills for expanding emotional efficacy
- Develop increased confidence in evoking and processing emotion with clients
- Execute ethical, trauma-informed emotion work
- Screen clients for emotion work requiring clinical expertise
This course will be available again in 2026. Sign up and you'll be first to know when the cohort opens.
What practitioners are saying
Dr. West is an exceptionally skilled and effective trainer, engaging participants in a warm, curious, and playful way. She teaches clear, powerful approaches for helping clients navigate difficult emotional states. Her combination of didactic instruction and experiential practice meant I could quickly integrate the interventions into my practice.
This was the best ACT training I've taken. Dr. West offered an accessible, engaging introduction to psychological flexibility and its distinction from traditional CBT, making ACT easy to understand and apply. I highly recommend this training for anyone interested in becoming an ACT therapist or sharpening their ACT skills.
Dr. West is an engaging, skillful and dynamic trainer. Her balance of didactic-style teaching and experiential exercises helped me stay present, consolidate what I was learning, and apply new skills immediately. I've successfully used her EET skills with clients in my private practice, and found her EET book to be an essential reference.
With deep experience in both therapy and coaching, Dr. West's EET training is a rare and valuable opportunity. The structure is clear and immediately useful for clients, while the session flow and experiential process provide a powerful toolbox for coaches. Dr. West is adept at teaching the protocol and demonstrating its flexible application in real-time practice.
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