ACT For Burnout

Help yourself and your clients reduce the risk of burnout using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (a 90 min webinar)

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)

Learners are invited to submit questions by 01 September 2026 to training@actwellington.co.nz

BIO Dr. Kerry Makin-Byrd is a clinical psychologist and noted burnout and well-being expert who translates science into practical non-fiction. She is the author of the newly released START HERE: A Practical Guide For The Overwhelmed and the memoir The Ballad of Burnout. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, she divides her time between writing, providing trauma therapy, and consulting with doctors and therapists. Her favorite types of rest are cold swims with her family and caring for foster cats.