Tag: ACT

Radical Acceptance For Anxiety And Wellbeing

Radical Acceptance: One of the Most Powerful Mental Health Skills for Lasting Well-Being Radical acceptance is one of the most pivotal coping strategies for improving mental health because it reduces…

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Easing death anxiety with mindfulness & ACT

Death Anxiety and Presence: How Mindfulness and ACT Can Ground You in the Now Death is simultaneously one of the most natural and most feared aspects of human existence. Yet…

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Using ACT and Cognitive Defusion to Improve Negative Thinking

Theoretical Foundation of ACT and Cognitive Defusion Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a type of psychotherapy grounded in contextual behavioural science, which emphasizes the influence of context on human…

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ACT Part 2: Psychological Flexibility explained.

Part one of this topic (see previous post) introduced the ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy) model and how it teaches people to change the way they react to their thoughts…

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ACT: A Therapeutic approach to help us live more fulfilled lives

How many people do you actually know who have never felt anxious, down or stressed in their lives in some way? Sure, some idealized person that always seems to have…

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ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy)

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]ACT stands for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. ACT originated in the 1980s with Steven Hayes and is considered a 'new wave' therapy approach that takes a non-pathologizing view of…

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