ACT: A Practical Guide for Rehabilitation Providers

This course was designed for OTs, PTs, and other rehab professionals who want real-world strategies for bringing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) into clinical practice.

You’ll learn to use ACT both formally—with structured tools and practices —and informally, by weaving purposeful language and curiosity-driven questions into everyday sessions.

Expect a range of practical strategies, case examples and reflection prompts to help you integrate these skills into your clinical work. You’ll leave with a clear foundation in ACT’s core processes and the confidence to tailor an ACT approach to your own caseload.
Format
Self-Paced
Facilitator
Lara Desrosiers BSc. Kin, MSc. OT Reg. (Ont)
Prerequisites
No expertise or previous learning in the content area is required.
Duration
  • Lifetime Access! 
  • 9.5 hours of video lessons & guided practices
  • Reflections, Case Studies and Downloadable Resources to review at your pace
  • Live Support: Access to monthly office hours for 1 year from purchase.

Price (inc. tax)
$697 (incl tax)
*Register before April 17 to save $200

Course Lessons

Course Description
Course Objectives
Course Features
Meet the Facilitator
Assessment & Certification
Target Audience
Cancellation Policy

Course Description

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is gaining traction in rehab for a reason.

Clients across orthopedics, neurology, concussion, pelvic health, chronic pain, and mental health often struggle just as much with their relationship to symptoms as with the symptoms themselves. ACT offers an evidence-based way to help them build psychological flexibility—so they can get unstuck and move toward what matters, even when symptoms persist.


This course was built for rehabilitation providers—especially OTs and PTs—who are ready for clear, concrete strategies to bring ACT into their practice. You’ll learn how to apply ACT both formally, using structured tools, handouts and metaphors, and informally, by weaving intentional language and curiosity-driven questions into everyday sessions.


You’ll also get BONUS Integration Guides—showing how ACT can be used not only as a powerful stand-alone intervention, but also as a lens to amplify the impact of the tools and approaches you already use in practice.


You’ll leave with a strong foundation in ACT’s core processes, clarity on how ACT supports rehabilitation goals, and the confidence to adapt these tools for your unique caseload. Mental health clinicians who want to strengthen their ability to support clients struggling with physical symptoms are also welcome and will benefit from this course.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the core philosophy, theoretical foundations, and key processes of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and explain how they support behavior change in rehabilitation contexts.

2. Apply ACT principles in both structured and informal ways using therapeutic language, metaphors, and scripted strategies within client conversations.

3. Use ACT strategies to support the development of psychological flexibility in clients by encouraging present-moment awareness, openness to difficult internal experiences, and movement toward valued action.

4. Use ACT strategies to address complex rehabilitation presentations such as persistent pain, fatigue, and fear-based avoidance.


5. Integrate ACT with other rehabilitation approaches including education, pacing, exercise, sensory strategies, and CBT techniques in order to develop flexible, client-centred care plans.

6. Modify ACT-informed strategies to fit different clinical contexts, practice settings, and caseload demands.

7. Select and implement ACT-informed scripts, tools, and client-facing practices to support psychological flexibility in rehabilitation.




Meet the Facilitator

Lara Desrosiers BSc. Kin, MSc. OT Reg. (Ont)

Lara Desrosiers is an Occupational Therapist with a background in mental health and addictions, and a passion for supporting individuals navigating persistent pain and distressing pelvic health challenges.

Drawing on occupational therapy foundations and evidence-based approaches—including Pain Reprocessing Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and Polyvagal Theory—Lara helps clients understand their symptoms, regulate distress, and restore meaningful engagement in daily life.

Lara is also a sought-after educator, mentor, and clinical supervisor for clinicians across disciplines who are committed to building psychologically informed, trauma-informed, and person-centered practices. 

Whether in the clinic or the classroom, Lara’s work centers on empowering others to move beyond the “fix-it” model and toward more collaborative, compassionate care.

Assessment & Certification

Participants will be expected to complete all of the self-paced modules and practice reflections (flexibility boosts).

Upon completion, AMP Healthcare Education will collect participant evaluations of the overall learning experience.


Participants will receive a course certificate upon competition of course requirements.



Target Audience

This course is designed for:

  • Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, and other rehabilitation professionals who work with clients experiencing complex, persistent, or emotionally-loaded symptoms—such as pain, fatigue, functional neurological symptoms, pelvic health challenges, or post-concussion difficulties.
  • Clinicians working in outpatient rehab, community health, pelvic health, pain management, neuro rehab, or return-to-function programs who want practical, client-centered strategies to support engagement and behavior change.
  • Rehabilitation providers interested in building confidence with psychologically-informed care, including tools to help clients navigate distress, avoidance, and stuckness—without stepping outside their professional scope.
  • Providers seeking to integrate ACT with other approaches in their toolbox, such as pain neuroscience education, pacing, exercise, or CBT-informed strategies.
  • Mental health clinicians who support clients with persistent physical symptoms or health-related distress and want to boraden their use of ACT to address chronic illness and physical symptoms.


Whether you’re just beginning to explore ACT or looking to refine and expand how you use it in-session, this course will equip you with practical tools, clinical examples, and flexible strategies you can use right away.



Cancellation Policy

We’re confident you’ll love what you find here. But if you take a look and decide it’s not the right fit, or the right time, no problem — we are happy to offer a 30-day money-back guarantee for this course. Just let us know within 30 days of your purchase, and we’ll issue a refund (less a 10% administration fee). To request a refund, please email admin@amp-healthcare.ca.

LIFETIME ACCESS: your access to the course materials does not expire


Flexible, self-paced modules: breaking down concepts and illustrating translation to practice


Live Support! Access to monthly office hours for 1 year from purchase.


Key Strategies E-books: downloadable summaries of each ACT process and key strategies for working on it to have at your finger tips


Case Examples: practical, downloadable stories so that you can see how to translate concepts into your conversations and interventions


Integration Guides: ideas for applying ACT principles across your current toolset, with creativity and flexibility


Flexibility Boosts: short reflections that help you build your own adaptability as you apply this stuff


Quick Reference Snapshots: single-page reminders of ACT processes, signs of key stuck points to watch for, and key strategies to use


Case Formulation Template: a structure for deconstructing complex cases, spotting flexibility gaps, and planning your next steps

 All materials are downloadable and yours to keep—your very own ACT toolbox designed specifically for rehabilitation practice!

Meet your instructor

Lara Desrosiers OT

Lara Desrosiers, MSc OT, Reg. (Ont.) is the founder of Pelvic Resilience, a private occupational therapy practice based in Ontario. Since earning her Master’s in Occupational Therapy from McMaster University, she has worked in community mental health and addictions settings (since 2009) and now specializes in supporting individuals with pelvic health, persistent pain, and mental health challenges—using trauma-informed, psychologically informed, and evidence-based approaches such as CBT, ACT, and pain-reprocessing therapy to help people reclaim meaningful lives

What our learners are saying 

I loved everything! From digging into the theory, breaking down the terminology and jargon used in ACT to the concrete strategies and quick reference guides for applying it in my practice!
It was so helpful to have clinical examples, relevant handouts and a list of activities/exercises to do with clients to explore ACT concepts in rehab settings. There are SO many ACT resources out there (it can be overwhelming!) so it can be nice to start with just a small selection of tips for integrating ACT that have been applied in the OT context successfully.
Hearing and reading about different ways to apply this stuff really helps me to solidify my understanding of the concepts. So, hearing about Lara's real-life client examples was super helpful (and interesting)!