About ACT

ACT = Acceptance & Commitment Therapy.

How to explain something that is simple and can be as complex as you would like it to be? The most basic idea is that one should ‘do what works’ – but you could also trace how it emerged from a basic idea of cognitive behavioral therapy aimed at values and mindfulness.

ACT focuses on creating a balanced and flexible psychological being, aimed at identifying survival mechanisms and avoidance techniques that in the long run only muddle the water. Human life can be thought of as fulfilling when focused on one’s own core values, uninhabited by fusion with thoughts, while not lingering in the past or the future, and having a healthy perspective of the self.

If this sounds like mumble jumble, don’t worry. ACT is also very much about acting, acting on dealing with life instead of walking away from problems. ACT is new in the way that it gives words and concepts to things that are actually pretty obvious. Many of the concepts used can be found in philosophy.

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ACT is more a way of life, an attitude. Aimed at long-term goals while remaining very much attentive to the present.

Want to know more? Perhaps the best way is to experience it. I offer free intakes where you may already experience what ACT in combination with working with artistic methods can mean for you.

Interesting books to consider on this topic: