An in Person Training
September 23, 2026
8:45AM – 12:00PM
Weaver and Associates
1495 Chain Bridge Rd., Ste. 300
McLean, VA 22101
Fee: $145
Description:
Values are at the heart of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. But they are not just an intervention we do with clients. In this training, we will explore how values can create a shared therapeutic framework helping all everyone involved — client, therapist, and family — be on the same team working towards what matters. When we orient toward what matters rather than what to eliminate, we open up new possibilities for connection and movement, even when values do not perfectly align. This workshop explores how to use values flexibly and relationally across the therapeutic system. Rather than just looking at how to help clients identify their values, we’ll also explore how a clinician’s values can guide them to work more effectively with clients. We’ll also look at how to navigate moments when values diverge or when values get lost in the mix of various parties’ competing goals whether that’s between therapist and client or with family members. Finally, clinicians will also get practical practice in conducting a values-based informed consent that can help orient and ground the therapy and get everyone on the same team.
Target Audience: Social Workers, Psychologists and other Mental Health Professionals
Content Level: Beginner to Intermediate
About the Instructor:
Jenna LeJeune, Ph.D. is President and co-founder of Portland Psychotherapy Clinic, Research and Training Center in Portland, Oregon. She is also faculty at the Portland Institute for Psychedelic Science where she is a study therapist on various clinical trials involving psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. As a clinical psychologist, Dr. LeJeune is deeply interested in issues of meaning, purpose, and values. She is the co-author of the book Values in Therapy: A Clinician’s Guide to Helping Clients Explore Values, Increase Psychological Flexibility, and Live a More Meaningful Life as well as numerous other book chapters, journal articles, and other publications largely focused on issues related to values, meaning, self- compassion, and shame. Dr. LeJeune is also a peer-reviewed ACT trainer and provides ACT trainings for professionals around the world.
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the role of values in fostering meaningful client engagement from an ACT framework
2. Apply values-based strategies facilitate a shared understanding that orients treatment
3. Identify approaches for working with values misalignment across the therapeutic system.
4. Utilize values-based informed consent as a tool for grounding the therapy and
strengthening trust and confidence across all parties.
5. Practice tuning into their own values as therapists in real time in order to increase therapist consistency and effectiveness.
Agenda:
Welcome and Session Overview (30 min)
Describe the role of values in fostering meaningful client engagement from an ACT framework (30 min)
Identify approaches for working with values misalignment across the therapeutic system. (30 min)
Utilize values-based informed consent as a tool for grounding the therapy and strengthening trust and confidence across all parties. (30 min)
Practice tuning into their own values as therapists in real time in order to increase therapist consistency and effectiveness. (30 min)
Summary and Takeaways (15 min)
Questions (30 min)
Course Registration: $145
If you can not attend the training, please email admin@weaverandassociates.net at least 24 hours prior. We can offer a credit to attend a future training.
Course Completion and CE Information:
Weaver and Associates, provider # 1234, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State
and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Weaver and Associates maintains responsibility for this course.
ACE provider approval period: 08/08/2025–08/08/2028. Social workers completing this course receive 3 clinical continuing education credits.
This activity is pending approval for 3 CE credits for psychologists.