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.
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Room To Talk is a nonprofit program of The Women's Center in central Ann Arbor. Women, men, and individuals who identify as LGBTQ+ are welcome. We provide online teletherapy as a flexible option when we are unable to meet safety in person. In addition to psychotherapy, we offer divorce supports as well as job and financial coaching. We can all use a mental health "tune-up" now and again....
I respect that each person is different and believe there is no one solution for everyone. I believe in treating the whole person which includes mind and body. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience counseling children, adults, seniors, couples and families. My training allows me to draw from different methods from which we can develop new ways to cope with sadness,...
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