If you work in case management, mental health, child protection, or community services, you already know the cost of caring inside hard systems.
ACT does not pretend to fix the system. It does offer six tools to help you stay yourself within it: acceptance of what you cannot control, defusion from the inner critic, present-moment grounding, the observer self, contact with values, and small daily committed action.
Used together, they form a kind of inner armour — not numbing, but a workable distance from the parts of the work that would otherwise consume you.