Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to embrace their thoughts and feelings rather than fighting or feeling guilty for them. We will work collaboratively to help you move forward through difficult emotions, so you can put your energy into healing instead of dwelling on the negative. You'll learn a collection of coping mechanisms specifically designed for your situation, which you can use throughout your life to handle challenging experiences.

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is an approach that helps clients learn to stop avoiding, denying, and struggling with their inner emotions and, instead, accept that these deeper feelings are appropriate responses to certain situations that should not prevent them from moving forward in their lives. This can help clients begin to accept their hardships and commit to making changes in their behavior, regardless of what is going on in their lives and how they feel about it.

With expertise in ACT, I empower individuals to embrace their emotions, thoughts, and experiences while guiding them towards aligning their actions with their core values. Through a compassionate and experiential process, my goal is to facilitate meaningful and lasting transformations, promoting psychological flexibility and enhancing overall well-being.

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.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a unique empirically based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, together with commitment and behavior change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility. Psychological flexibility means contacting the present moment fully as a conscious human being, and based on what the situation affords, changing or persisting in behavior in the service of chosen values.

ACT is a type of mindful psychotherapy that helps you to tay focused on the present moment and to accept thoughts and feelings without judgement. Being a yoga studio owner for 10 years, brings knowledge and experience in mindfulness. In addition to individual sessions, I offer weekly group therapy for anxiety that offers a unique setting including meditation, yoga and group processing which results in feeling more understood, and less isolated with what you are experiencing.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on recognize that pain and obstacles are a part of life and something we cannot ignore but can surely overcome. ACT aims to create more acceptance towards life's challenges and reducing suffering associated with painful experiences. It also encourages being in the here and now, being present and mindful. ACT also encourages and teaches the significance of living a values-driven life to create overall satisfaction and emotional well-being.

My favorite treatment modality for depression and anxiety is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). In ACT, clients shift away from fighting with their thoughts and emotions and instead learn to accept them without being controlled by them. ACT utilizes mindfulness techniques (meditation not required!) and client-centered values-exploration to help you build the life you actually want to live. Instead of changing your thoughts, we focus on changing your life. How cool is that?

The present moment is sometimes the best we can offer not only the world around us, but to ourselves. Following the six processes of ACT can help us realize what the moment has to offer and how we can move forward towards our north star.

Experience transformative change through ACT, where I, a certified therapist, guide you to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. Together, we'll clarify your values and commit to meaningful actions, fostering resilience and empowering you to live a life aligned with your authentic self.

My core specialization, I use tenets of ACT in my work as it holistically encapsulates the essence of true healing: learning skills while being holistically congruent with oneself.

I have completed training with Russ Harris, through the VA, and self-guided learning to enhance my knowledge and ability to apply concepts from ACT in work with clients.

Life sucks. Not all the time, but at its core, life is full of suffering. Often times the more we try to think positively and ignore this existential fact, the more miserable we feel. Then, to make matters worse, we attempt to control our emotions and our thoughts. Not only is this an impossible task but it is the root of much of our suffering, trying to control our thoughts and emotions instead of learning to accept them. That’s what ACT is all about. It pairs beautiful with ketamine work.

I not only practice from a Acceptance-Commitment Therapeutic stance but I also provide individual supervision in, as well as trained fellow Clinicians in the application of Acceptance Commitment Therapy. Acceptance-Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a mindfulness-based therapy that incorporates elements of Buddhist mindfulness meditation and newer behavioral therapy techniques. Member of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science - https://contextualscience.org/

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.

Instead of trying to change or avoid difficult thoughts and emotions, ACT encourages you to embrace them fully, like welcoming old friends into your home. As your therapist, I'll gently guide you to acknowledge these feelings without judgment, teaching you to make peace with them rather than letting them control you. Together, we'll explore your deepest values and aspirations, crafting a roadmap for living in alignment with what truly matters to you.

A growing branch off of CBT, ACT is one of my favorite approaches. My expertise lies in finding acceptance with what we have or are experiencing, while finding inner initiative, power, and confidence in taking the reins of the course our lives take. Having received numerous trainings in this area, I have found ACT is the commitment to put yourself in the drivers seat and the empowerment to get back in when we have fallen off.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps you embrace your thoughts and feelings without judgment (acceptance) while aligning your actions with your core values (commitment). It's a powerful way to find purpose and resilience in the face of life's challenges, such as anxiety and stress. We'll work collaboratively to develop mindfulness skills, increase psychological flexibility, and challenge unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior.