What Is ACT?

Through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), you learn to no longer be held hostage by your mind and emotions. Most of our everyday lives include some negative things like pain, sorrow, and anxiety. In ACT, we learn to live with them to form a vibrant and meaningful life.

Become flexible

Most things we do can help sometimes but not other times. For example, it’s helpful to kiss your partner; it’s less helpful to kiss your boss.

Through ACT, you get options. You start to adapt to the present challenge. You learn to identify your mental resources. You develop the ability to shift perspective. And you acquire the ability to balances competing desires, needs, and life domains.

Change your relationship with your mind

We need to bring attention to the way that our minds trap us. ACT helps people notice memories, feelings, or even physical sensations as not things to be loathed, feared, or completely avoided.

As an Acceptance and Commitment therapist, my goal is to provide you with the space to view your personal issues, develop the skills to accept perceived negativity, and commit to desired behavioral changes.

Values impact actions

One core concept of ACT is that our values have a significant impact on our actions. For instance, people who value order will make choices in their lives that reflect an orderly mentality. These choices may differ greatly in comparison to someone who values creativity.

If there is a behavior in your life that you wish to change, I can help you overcome your habitual practices.

ACT teaches that instead of running from problems and negativity, you should recognize these things, accept them, and eventually let them go. Instead of focusing on the things in your life that you cannot change, you should put your efforts toward decision making that supports your life’s core values.