Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) has been shown to be effective in treating a range of psychological difficulties including anxiety, depression, psychosis, chronic pain and OCD.

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How Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Works

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The process of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy will take you through identifying ways in which you try and control your difficult experiences. For example, through avoiding certain situations or pushing your feelings or thoughts to one side by distracting yourself.

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In ACT we see this as part of the problem - the more you push the difficult experiences away, the more depleted you feel, taking you further away from what's truly important to you.

 

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - 'third wave CBT’

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An updated form of CBT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is a so-called 'third wave CBT'  which focuses much more on how we relate to what we think and feel, rather than just on what we think and feel as in traditional CBT.

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Manage painful and difficult thoughts

 

The central aim of ACT is to help you clarify what's truly important and meaningful to you whilst teaching psychological skills to manage painful and difficult thoughts and feelings in more effective ways. so that they have less influence and impact on your life.

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Using mindfulness skills is a big part of this process. Learning how to step back and observe difficult internal experiences will help free you up to take committed action towards what is important. Thereby building a more rich and more meaningful life for yourself.

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Other types of therapeutic approaches we specialise in are: