Fellow Travelers

I would like to connect with "fellow travelers" who are using ACT in a Behavioral Medicine or Primary Care setting. I'm a chaplain in a medical center and also a Licensed Professional Counselor. I've been using ACT principles in group settings for our Diabetes Education and Cardiac Rehab outpatient programs. It seems to me that using ACT in this setting has virtually unlimited possibilities, including chronic pain, fibromyalgia, CFS, and many other chronic "medical" illnesses.

I am a 51 years old clinician psychologist learning ACT and RFT and coming from the humanistic tradition in psychotherapy I found some convergences (the importance of awareness and to feel instead of avoiding feeling) and divergences (the absence of the concept of "needs" (cf.