Dr. Michael E. Levin

Michael E. Levin, Ph.D. is the co-director of the USU ACT Research Group and a Professor in the Combined Clinical/Counseling Psychology Ph.D. program at Utah State University.

He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno under the mentorship of Dr. Steven C. Hayes and completed his predoctoral internship at the Brown University Clinical Psychology Training Consortium.

Dr. Levin's research primarily focuses on the delivery of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) through self-guided technologies for a wide range of problem areas including depression, anxiety, weight-related concerns, and coping with chronic health conditions. He has received multiple grants for his research and has published extensively in the area of ACT and digital interventions. He is the past Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science.

Dr. Michael P. Twohig

Michael P. Twohig, Ph.D. is a psychologist in Utah and a Professor of Psychology at Utah State University, where he co-runs the ACT Research Group (with Dr. Levin). He received his B.A. and M.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, his Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Reno, and completed his clinical internship at the University of British Columbia Hospital. He is past-President of the Association of Contextual Behavioral Science and winner of the 2025 D. Wynn Thorne career research award. His research focuses on the use of ACT across a variety of clinical presentations with an emphasis on obsessive compulsive and related disorders. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers, many book chapters, and 13 books, with the most recent being the Anxious Perfectionist (with Ong) and Trichotillomania: An ACT-Enhanced Behavior Therapy Approach (2nd Ed.; with Woods). His research has been funded through multiple sources including the National Institute of Mental Health, IOCDF, and the Misophonia Research Fund. In 2022, 2024, and 2025 he was rated as the most productive author on ACT in the world.