Stan Bergheim

Stan Bergheim

President & Founder of Uniskills AS
  • Licensed clinical psychologist
  • Certified specialist in clinical psychology of adults
  • Certified supervisor and teacher in Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Certified (peer-reviewed) supervisor and teacher in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Stan Bergheim is a licensed clinical psychologist with over three decades of work experience in mental health. He’s been trained in various psychotherapy schools and certified as a teacher/supervisor in two of them: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

Between 2015 and 2018, he coordinated a clinical research project at Akershus University Hospital in Norway. The project focused on an integrative treatment for recurrent depression, combining CBT, ACT, and Compassion-Focused therapy into one coherent intervention, known as Emotional Safeness Therapy. This project subsequently led to the development of the Matrix of Wellbeing.

Between 2013 and 2018, he presented his work at twelve international conferences on three continents.

Recently, he has been working on further developing the Matrix together with digitally and AI-supported e-health technologies.

Professional Affiliations:

The American Psychological Association

The Norwegian Psychological Association

Association for Contextual Behavioral Science

Norwegian Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy

Former Board Member of the Norwegian Association for Contextual Behavioral Science

Conference talks & workshops:

  • Workshop: “Multidimensional Model of Change and Integrative Group Therapy for Depression” – presenter

  • Invited plenary talk: “Between stimulus and response there is a space. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy – a new face of behaviourism” – speaker

  • Invited plenary talk: “Building emotional safeness with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy” – speaker
  • Invited workshop: “The Emotional Safeness Group – step by step. Introduction to a new group protocol for depression based on the integration of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Compassion Focused Therapy” – presenter

  • Panel debate: “Prevention from a contextual behavioral science perspective” – chair of the panel
  • Panel debate: “Frontiers of contextual behavioral science of Self-Compassion” – panelist
  • Workshop “Experiential ACT Primer” – presenter
  • Workshop “The flexible and compassionate therapist” – presenter

  • Workshop “Art and science of compassion in psychotherapy” – presenter

  • Invited plenary talk: ”Suffering, death and love. How contextual behavioral science approaches the three attributes of human condition in the context of suicide.” – speaker

  • Panel debate: ”The Report from The Compasion Focused SIG: The State of Affairs of The Science of Compassion in CBS” – panelist
  • Workshop: ”Appreciating your ‘stuckness’ and ‘helplessness’ in face of physical and psychological pain” – presenter
  • Paper: ”Whys and hows of ACT dissemination in Poland”. Part of symposium: ”Community-Based Interventions” – presenter
  • Symposium: “Exposure & Contextually-Based Models and Health: New Approaches” – discussant

  • Workshop: ”The Flexible and Compassionate Therapist: Art and Science of Compassion in Clinical Training and Supervision” – presenter

  • Panel debate: “The Philosophy/Strategy of Science of Functional Contextualism” – panelist

  • Invited plenary talk: “Functional contextualistic view of mental health” – speaker

  • Paper: ”Functional-contextualistic view of mental health problems.” Part of symposium: ”Functional Contextual Global Health” – presenter
  • Workshop: ”Loving kindness in clinical settings: Enhancing therapist’s compassion through the ACT processes” – presenter

  • Workshop: “Loving kindness in clinical settings: Enhancing therapist’s compassion through the ACT processes” – presenter

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