Making room
Letting hard feelings be there without spending your life fighting them.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy · ACT
Change your relationship with what's hard, then move toward what matters.
ACT doesn't try to get rid of every hard feeling first. It changes how much those feelings get to decide, so you can act on what you care about while they're still there.
What ACT is
Acceptance and commitment
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, usually shortened to ACT and said as one word, grew out of cognitive and behavioral therapy. It has two halves. Acceptance: being willing to have what you can't change. Commitment: putting your effort into what you can.
It works on processes rather than diagnoses. Two people with the same label can be stuck for very different reasons, so we look at what is keeping you stuck, and build the skills that loosen it.
The six skills
Three for awareness, three for action
Stepping back from thoughts
Seeing a thought as a thought, so it stops running the show.
Here and now
Noticing what is actually happening, instead of living in the replay or the forecast.
A steadier sense of self
A place to stand that doesn't depend on the story you tell about yourself.
What matters
Getting clear on what you want your life to be about.
Committed action
Small, concrete steps toward it, repeated, and adjusted when they don't work.
In weekly sessions, we practice these on what you bring that week, then you try them where it counts: at work, at home, in the conversation you've been putting off. How therapy works.
The next step
The call is fifteen minutes and free.
You tell me what changed and what you're hoping for. I tell you whether I can help, what it costs and what would come next. If I'm not the right person, I say so and point you to someone who is.
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