Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Helps you build psychological flexibility, reduce avoidance, and take action aligned with your personal values, even alongside difficult thoughts and feelings.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy — often called the psychological flexibility model — takes a different approach from trying to eliminate difficult thoughts and feelings. Instead, it teaches you to make room for them, while still moving toward the life you actually want.
Through six interconnected skills — acceptance, cognitive defusion, present-moment awareness, self-as-context, values clarification, and committed action — ACT helps loosen the grip that anxious or self-critical thoughts have over your decisions, so you can act on what matters even when things feel hard.
What to expect
Clarifying what genuinely matters to you across different areas of life
Learning to notice and “defuse” from unhelpful thoughts rather than getting tangled in them
Mindfulness-based practices for staying grounded in the present
Committing to concrete, values-aligned actions and building on them week to week
Who this is for
- Avoidance behaviors
- Values-based decision making
- Chronic stress or life transitions
ACT is classified as a “third-wave” behavioral therapy with a growing evidence base across anxiety, depression, chronic stress, and major life transitions, and is particularly well-suited to people who feel stuck in avoidance patterns.