CBT & ACT Skills for Living with Chronic Illness

In this course, Dr Rachel Allen, licensed clinical psychologist, introduces a practical, transdiagnostic framework for working with clients living with chronic illness. She outlines the emotional burden, cognitive distortions, behavioural cycles, and identity disruptions commonly associated with long-term health conditions, and shows how clinicians can respond using pacing, behavioural activation, cognitive reframing, defusion, mindfulness, and values-based action. The course emphasises realistic, function-focused care that helps clients build psychological flexibility, improve daily functioning, and live more fully alongside ongoing symptoms.