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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As a licensed educational psychologist, trained at Columbia University, I provide consultation, psychotherapy, and evaluation services. I work with children, adolescents, and adults to help them navigate a range of challenges that often manifests in life. I am licensed to provide comprehensive, individualized assessments of a person’s cognitive, social/emotional and academic skills in order to ...
Culturally responsive in-depth therapy on trauma, sex, gender, relationship, and eating disorders for individuals and couples. An LGBTQ+, BIPOC & neurodiversity-affirming, body-trust, sex-positive, poly/kink-aware practice founded by queer of color. IFS, EFT, EMDR, GSRD Therapist. Bilingual service. Telehealth in CA. www.DearRootedLotus.com
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We are a small group practice located in Columbia, MO. We see clients in person and online. Our philosophy is that everyone can have a great life, if they believe they can.
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