Experiential Clinical Intensive · Reykjavík, Iceland
ACT for Burnout
A two-day experiential intensive for mental health clinicians exploring how Acceptance and Commitment Therapy can help address burnout and support greater psychological flexibility, resilience, and meaningful engagement in clinical work.
March 6–7, 2027
Reykjavík, Iceland
Dr. Richard Sears
13
Continuing Education Hours
Approved providers of ACE, APA, NBCC, NYSED (LMSW/LCSW, LMHC, LMFT, Psychologists), and NY-OASAS. Check each individual program for related board approvals.
About the Intensive
Burnout doesn't usually respond to insight alone. Clients may understand what's happening for them. They may even have tools to deal with it. But something can still keep them looping, caught between overwhelm, avoidance, and exhaustion.
When Clients Are Burned Out, Stuck, or Disengaged, What Actually Helps?
ACT offers a different way in. Instead of trying to eliminate distress, it helps clients change their relationship to it, so they can begin moving toward what matters, even when things feel hard.
In this two-day experiential intensive, you'll explore the application of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to burnout, depression, anxiety, trauma, and chronic stress.
Through supervised experiential practice, live demonstrations, and hands-on learning, you'll develop practical skills that you can bring directly into your clinical work.
01
Apply the ACT Model
Apply the ACT model to burnout, depression, anxiety, trauma, and chronic stress.
04
Support Behavioral Change
Introduce behavioral change that feels possible rather than overwhelming.
What You’ll Learn
Practical Skills for Clinical Work
This intensive focuses on applying ACT processes in ways that are practical, flexible, and relevant to the challenges clients bring into the therapy room.
02
Work with Difficult Experiences
Help clients relate differently to difficult thoughts, emotions, and internal experiences.
05
Adapt ACT Processes
Adapt ACT processes across diverse populations and clinical circumstances.
03
Clarify Values
Use values as a stabilizing direction when motivation is low.
06
Translate Learning into Practice
Develop practical skills through guided exercises, live demonstrations, and applied learning.
Why This Training Works
Beyond the Lecture
Many workshops stay conceptual. You leave inspired, but unsure how to actually use the work in the room.
This intensive is built differently. You'll be practicing throughout, learning how to work directly with experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion, guide clients into present-moment awareness, clarify values, and support committed action.
The focus is on making ACT something you can put into practice, not simply something you understand in theory.
The Setting
A Different Kind of Training, in a Place That Changes How You See Things
Iceland is a unique destination. The scale of the land, the rawness of it, and the way it draws you out of your usual patterns create an experience unlike an ordinary professional training.
Held in downtown Reykjavík, the training places you just steps away from the city's vibrant culture, cafés, and restaurants, with extraordinary day trips into nature close at hand.
Travel just beyond the city and you'll find waterfalls, volcanic fields, black sand beaches, glaciers, and geothermal springs. If conditions align, you may also experience the Northern Lights moving overhead.
During this program, your days are intentionally structured to hold both depth and space. Mornings offer time for movement, rest, or exploration. Midday and afternoon sessions are devoted to training, practice, and integration. Evenings open into the city or the landscape just beyond it.
Your Trainer
Dr. Richard Sears
PsyD, PhD, MBA, ABPP, ACS
Dr. Richard Sears is a board-certified clinical psychologist and internationally recognized ACT, MBCT, and mindfulness teacher.
Dr. Sears brings decades of clinical and teaching experience, known for making complex concepts practical, engaging, and immediately usable. His approach is both structured and human, grounded in real clinical work rather than theory alone.
Who This Training Is For
For Mental Health Professionals
This training is designed for clinicians who want their work to feel more effective, more grounded, and more alive.
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Mental Health Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Psychotherapists
- Graduate Students in Mental Health Fields
Training Details
Two Days in Reykjavík
Welcome Reception
Friday, March 5, 2027
Training Dates
March 6–7, 2027
Location
Downtown Reykjavík, Iceland
Instructor
Dr. Richard Sears
Continuing Education
13 CE Hours
Venue
To Be Announced
The exact training location in downtown Reykjavík will be announced.
CE Sponsor: The Master Clinician, a program of Counseling Services of Long Island.
Travel Host: SimplyPenny.
Preliminary Schedule
Time for Learning and Exploration
The schedule is designed to combine structured clinical learning with time to experience Reykjavík and the surrounding landscape.
Friday, March 5, 2027
6:00–8:00 PM
Welcome Reception
Saturday, March 6 and Sunday, March 7
7:00–8:30 AM
Breakfast on your own
9:00–11:00 AM
Relaxation, Movement and Adventure on your own
11:15 AM–2:30 PM
Clinical Training
2:30–3:30 PM
Lunch Break on your own
3:30–6:30 PM
Clinical Training
Preliminary schedule, subject to change. Continuing education credit is awarded during the specified training sessions. Licensing boards require full attendance at each CE training session throughout the entire training to receive any credit for the training. Please review the schedule carefully and plan accordingly.
Program Investment
Registration Pricing
Registering early offers the best price.
Priority Rate
$1,399
Register by November 30, 2026.
Winter Rate
$1,449
Register by December 31, 2026.
Standard Individual Rate
$1,899
Standard program tuition.
Tuition covers the training only. Airfare, accommodations, transportation, and meals are not included.
Travel insurance, including a Cancel For Any Reason provision, is mandatory.
Explore Iceland
Optional Reykjavík Experiences
Enhance your Iceland experience with optional excursions and cultural activities available before and during the training.
Reykjavík Food Tour
Friday, March 5, 2027. Lunch included.
$150 USD
Northern Lights Chase
Minimum of 10 participants required for the tour to operate.
Friday, March 5, 2027. Approximately 8:30 PM.
$169 USD
How to Become Icelandic Show
Saturday, March 6, 2027 at 7:00 PM. Harpa Concert Hall.
$65 USD
Sky Lagoon Deluxe Experience
Transportation, private changing room, shower access, and towels included. Food and beverages are not included.
Sunday, March 7, 2027. 6:30 PM admission.
$169 USD
Participants may enroll one guest in optional activities for an additional fee, subject to availability.
