Practical, evidence-based articles on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, parenting, and frontline mental-health work.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based approach that helps people live more fully alongside difficult thoughts and feelings — not by getting rid of them, but by changing the relationship.
When clients struggle to access psychological flexibility, the issue is often nervous-system safety. Here is how polyvagal theory adds depth to your ACT work.
Mealtimes with a child who has ARFID can feel impossible. ACT offers a different stance — one that protects the relationship while still moving forward.
Goals can be achieved. Values are directions. Understanding the difference is one of the quiet superpowers of ACT.
Burnout is not a character flaw. It is what happens to caring humans inside under-resourced systems. ACT offers six grounded tools to use this week.
After multiple cohorts of the 7-week youth ACT workshop, three patterns keep showing up — and they tell us something important about adolescents.