Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT is an empirically-based intervention that combines mindfulness and acceptance. The goal is to notice the feelings that may come rather than eliminating the difficult feelings. The first step to change is bringing awareness to what you're feeling. Together we can find ways to cope with any negative feelings and find healthy ways to manage them.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based therapy that is effective for a variety of issues. ACT is culturally sensitive because it doesn't assume you're the problem, it assumes you have normal human problems. ACT encourages you to connect with yourself, take purposeful action, and maintain focused yet flexible engagement with your life. We aim to achieve tangible results by focusing on what you value, what works, and what moves you forward.

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a psychotherapy that emphasizes acceptance to deal with negative thoughts, feelings, or symptoms and encourages increased commitment to healthy, constructive activities that uphold your values or goals. The goal of ACT is not to reduce the frequency or severity of unpleasant thoughts or emotions. Rather, the goal is to reduce your struggle to control or eliminate these experiences while increasing your involvement in meaningful life activities.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a form of psychotherapy that helps individuals embrace their thoughts and feelings rather than fighting or feeling guilty for them. It encourages mindfulness, acceptance, and understanding that difficulties are a part of life, fostering commitment and behavior-change strategies to increase psychological flexibility and enhance well-being.

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a type of therapy that helps people accept the difficulties they are experiencing as a part of life, identify their values, and take action that aligns with these values. The premise of ACT is that struggle is a part of life, and fighting against it gets us nowhere, and can sometimes make things worse. If we accept the struggles we face but decide to move forward in spite of these struggles, we can achieve our goals and live a life with more meaning and purpose. I incorporate compassion-focused practices into my ACT work, helping you acknowledge the ways in which you are being hard on yourself, and how being a little bit kinder might help you move towards a life of valued action and meaning.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an action-oriented approach to therapy that combines mindfulness and acceptance strategies with commitment and behavior change strategies to increase psychological flexibility. It aims to help individuals contact the present moment fully, change or persist in behavior in line with their values, and lead a rich, full, and meaningful life. ACT is based on traditional behavior therapy and is designed to cultivate health, vitality, and well-being.

As an ACT therapist, I help you accept what's out of your control and commit to values-driven actions. We'll explore how your thoughts and feelings impact you, but not define you. Together, we'll build tools to live a more fulfilling life.

Running away from problems only increases the struggle. Understanding them leads to overcoming them. ACT develops psychological flexibility combining mindfulness skills with practices of self-acceptance. While working to accept thoughts and feelings, values-based commitments help you make change. Using ACT, you see more clearly & commit to facing problems head-on rather than avoiding stressors. Know yourself better & commit to actions that help you embrace experience & stand up to any challenge.

ACT is a type of Cognitive Behavior Therapy that focuses on being able to live a rich and meaningful life, with all the ups and downs that life throws at us. We focus on finding out what "makes you tick" and on becoming less constrained by the effects of anxiety, depression, and other unhelpful patterns, so you can do more of what makes you feel engaged with life. In ACT, we acknowledge that we aren't perfect, our lives aren't perfect, and we can find enjoyment and fulfillment despite this.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is a approach I use with all of my clients. I do not want clients to view their thoughts and emotions in a negative way, which can lead to serious negative self talk and diminish their chance to grow. I want my clients to find acceptance in their thoughts and emotions without judgement on themselves, and work together to move forward and to be in the present moment.

ACT is way of learning to tolerate and accept the truth of your present experiences, while taking intentional action toward creating change. When life is hard, it makes sense to have difficult thoughts and feelings; it makes sense to want things to be different. We'll work together, through compassionate conversation and mindfulness practice, to increase your capacity to accept these hard things. And we'll also identify action steps, no matter how small, that will create a pathway forward.

ACT is a psychotherapy technique that does not require you to banish any and all negative thoughts. With ACT you can accept all your emotions because all emotions are okay. Within the ACT framework we will discuss your values and how you can learn to live by them, eventually using your own personal values as your guide through life and all of life's experiences.

We experience challenging feelings for a reason. I find that ACT helps us to make peace with these inner experiences and, rather than fighting against them, helps us to accept and use them as we move forward in our lives.

Many people get frustrated in therapy by seeking "the answer" to their problems, building insight into their suffering with the idea that this insight will "fix" them. ACT is different, because rather than looking backward, it focuses on the present moment. ACT is heavily grounded in mindfulness and self-awareness in the present moment. This approach grounds clients and helps quiet their minds allowing for more meaningful engagement in their lives.

ACT combines the wisdoms of western and eastern sciences and philosophies to create a truly practical and wise approach to better living. The ACT framework can help clients learn to be less preoccupied with the past and future, to live more in the present and with greater integrity (authentically and in line with their deepest values), and to feel more fulfilled, confident, and happy.

I've taken multiple courses by a leader in the ACT community, Russ Harris. I love the approach of ACT because it focuses on what you can control right now to respond to your difficult thoughts and emotions. Living by your values and using your skills to go in the direction you want to go in your life is empowering and effective.