Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people become more psychologically adaptable. ACT encourages you to be more fully in the present. Accepting your deep emotions, traumas, or negative coping mechanisms is key in this therapeutic approach.
ACT maintains that to adapt and grow, a person must fully accept themselves as they are. Therapists practicing ACT believe that suppressing or ignoring painful emotions or experiences is counter-productive to growth and change.
You must investigate your current patterns of thinking to change. After examining these patterns, you can better understand the way your thinking impacts you. This acceptance of your patterns and habits helps you change your behaviors.
Trying to stop ways of thinking can be detrimental to ACT. Your therapist will help you understand how and why you think a certain way. Your ACT therapist will encourage you to accept yourself within a given moment. This acceptance is ultimately the catalyst for change.
After fostering the acceptance of the present moment, with all its thoughts, beliefs, and experiences, your ACT therapist will encourage you to develop a new, more compassionate relationship with your experience.
Individuals experiencing a wide range of psychological issues can benefit from ACT because it emphasizes their unique relationship with their problems.
I believe strongly that the therapeutic relationship is paramount in attaining benefit from psychotherapy. Feeling safe, validated, and heard are incredibly important. A sense of trust, as well as having a supportive, and open environment are foundational in beginning the process of unpacking, sorting, and addressing what has brought you to this moment. Essentially, your connection with your...
Feeling connected to ourselves and others, and developing a healthy relationship to our own emotions, has a strong effect on our happiness and well-being. With a background in Emotionally Focused therapy and AEDP, I specialize in working with complicated, painful or confusing emotions that keep couples and individuals feeling stuck, disconnected and alone. My specialities include: couples drift...
I get excited about working with my clients - getting to know you is the BEST part of what I do. And I totally understand what a leap of courage it can be to go to therapy. I'd love to hear what you have already tried, why it hasn't worked (or if it has, too), and what seems to be blocking your path. These are very helpful clues in our path of discovery. From there, I have a tool bag we can dra...
Aloha! I am a Clinical Psychologist fully licensed in Hawaii and Oregon and am registered to provide psychotherapy via Telehealth for MN residents during the COVID-19 Emergency. I currently provide individual psychotherapy for adults in Hawaii or Oregon (and Minnesota, temporarily) via Telehealth (no worries, it’s pretty simple to get set up). I offer a safe place free of judgment & filled with...
Do you have a tendency to worry more about how others see you than what is best for you? Do you wish life would just stop for a minute so you could catch your breath? Do you sometimes feel that you'll be dealing with your eating disorder forever? I work with clients who have the same sentiments and help them use coping strategies to become more mindful, regulate their emotions, and improve thei...
Please come exactly as you are. Whether you are new to therapy or have spent years working through various challenges, I invite you to come exactly as you are in this moment. We cannot move towards healing and change until we are permitted to be seen and heard as we are right now. I am committed to creating a warm, inviting, and non-judgmental space where you may feel safe to explore who you ar...
Our day to day lives are complex, busy, and demanding. Stressors inevitably arise. When they do, we may become overwhelmed and fall back into unexamined patterns that undermine our progress and leave us feeling stuck. Talk therapy can help improve life satisfaction through increased self-awareness and effective behavioral change. Many of us may benefit from the opportunity to talk through the...
I am a Licence Clinical Social Worker with over 10 years of experience working with kids (4-12 year old), adults and families who experience challenges linked to stress, self-esteem, behavior issues, parenting, children's adjustment to divorce, illness, grief, and adjustment issues. I engage kids through art, games and play to help express themselves and learn strategies to deal with their...
: ARE YOU SO ANXIOUS OR DEPRESSED IT'S HARD TO GET THROUGH YOUR DAY? Having anxiety or maybe feel sad and you keep feeling worse? Maybe you feel depressed now, and down alot? Panic Attacks and trouble breathing? Maybe anxiety has started to take over your life? Are the worries and negative thoughts just stuck in your head and keep going round and round? Maybe you're constantly washing or checki...
Welcome to Alpine Lakes Holistic Counseling & Wellness Center! If you are struggling to find joy in life, feeling stuck, often in toxic or unhealthy relationships, and/or experiencing depression, or anxiety. You may still be impacted by a traumatic event that happened years ago. Using evidenced based approaches including EMDR, ACT, Mindfulness and somatic modalities fused with holistic approach...
*** I am currently not accepting new client's *** I am providing telehealth only services. I provide focused therapy for adults and teens to help manage challenges, transitions and the many daily struggles of life. I work to build meaningful relationships with every client and provide a safe space to build confidence, explore core strengths and build skills to help manage anxiety, depression an...
I provide psychological treatment and services to address the difficulties associated with a variety of challenges and transitions. My approach to treatment is tailored to meet the unique needs of each individual client and I aim to create an atmosphere where people feel comfortable discussing and exploring their life. I view therapy as a collaboration and partnership between the client and...
***Not accepting new clients at this time.*** To be human is to experience great joy and great pain; sensitive people feel that pain on a deep level that can be overwhelming. Whether your pain stems from traumatic experiences, attachment wounds, or emotional needs that aren’t being met, therapy can help you sit with the pain while still building a meaningful and rich life. Therapy can help you...
Megan Komatsu, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from Arizona State University and her master's in social work from San Diego State University. She is trained in several treatment modalities and specializes in the treatment of trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, co-occurring disorders, anxiety, mood disorders, relationship issues,...
I understand that change is not easy. We all face challenges in life, and I believe that we are more capable of overcoming those challenges with support. Whether you, or your child, or your family are facing relationship conflicts, depression, anxiety, or a significant life event, my goal is to guide my clients toward positive change. I specialize in working with children, adolescents, young...
