Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) combines acceptance and mindfulness strategies with behavior-change tactics to help individuals increase psychological flexibility (a.k.a. mental and emotional resilience). If you’re considering ACT therapy in a professional setting, you likely have many questions about how to find an ACT therapist, such as what to look for in a therapist, what […]
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) facilitates psychological flexibility, which is one’s ability to adapt to uncomfortable and painful thoughts, emotions, and situations in a healthy and positive way. In ACT, you can achieve this mental and emotional agility through six core processes: Acceptance, Mindfulness, Cognitive Defusion, Self as Context, Values Clarification, and Committed Action. Collectively,
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a form of psychotherapy that encourages people to accept painful thoughts, emotions, and situations instead of denying or avoiding them. ACT is built on the idea that agonizing or struggling over what you don’t like can make things worse. But if you can accept them as part of the
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