Brendon Knott

Brendon is a clinical psychologist from Newcastle, Australia, who has been working from a functional contextual perspective since 2003. Brendon is a generalist clinician who has worked in both the public and private sectors and has extensive experience applying Acceptance and Commitment Therpay (ACT) and functional contextual interventions to a broad range of client populations. Brendon is also an experienced lecturer and trainer. He has run training workshops for Macquarie University and Sydney University, and has lectured on ACT and functional contextual approaches to therapy for the School of Psychology at the University of Newcastle (UoN) for the past 10 years.  Brendon has also run introductory and advanced ACT training workshops for therapists throughout New South Wales.

Brendon has a special interest in the application of contextual behavioural principles to areas beyond traditional psychotherapy. He has developed and implemented contextual behavioural interventions in areas of physical health such as stroke, diabetes and obesity. He has also worked as a consultant on a number of research projects at the University of Newcastle, contributing to the development of contextual behavioural resilience training programs for military using virtual reality (Centre for Advanced Training Systems) and app-delivered ACT training platforms for healthcare provider wellbeing.

Brendon has a passion for helping clinicians adopt a contextual behavioural perspective on their clinical work. His workshops are designed to help clinicians think and conceptualise from a functional perspective, and to demonstrate and explain relevant features of functional contextualism and functional behavioural analysis in ways that are simple to understand and implement in day to day clinical practice.

Brendon is currently a board member for The Australia and New Zealand Chapter of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ANZ ACBS).