M. JOANN WRIGHT, PH.D.

M. Joann Wright, Ph.D., is the founder of ACT One, an online presence dedicated to offering supervision, consultation, presentations, training and therapy utilizing the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) model.  She is a peer-reviewed ACT trainer and an Association of Contextual and Behavioral Sciences (ACBS) Fellow. 



Dr. Wright is the co-author of Learning ACT for Group Treatment: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Skills Training Manual for Therapists (Context Press; 2017) and Experiencing ACT from the Inside Out: A Self-Practice/Self-Reflection Workbook for Therapists (The Guilford Press; 2019).  Both books are aimed at assisting other therapists with their ACT work.



Dr. Wright has created both an ACT-based intensive anxiety outpatient program and a doctoral training program which focused on contextual behavioral sciences.  A sought-after instructor, she has served as the director of a university counseling center and has taught graduate courses at several universities.  Joann is dedicated to teaching and delivering ACT in order to help people reduce the suffering in their lives.





Financial: M. Joann Wright is the founder of ACT One.  She has a working relationship with Linden Oaks Medical Group and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Midwestern University. Dr. Wright is an author for New Harbinger Publications, Inc. and The Guilford Press. She also receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
 



Non-financial: M. Joann Wright is a fellow of the Association of Contextual and Behavioral Sciences (ACBS).