Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT is a mindfulness-based therapeutic modality that helps empower and resource individuals to manage anxious thoughts and feelings using a values and strengths-based approach.

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ACT for Youth & Adolescents

By using playful interventions designed to build awareness and challenge unhelpful cognitions, ACT for youth & adolescents is designed to resonate with young people who are struggling. Whether you’re battling with anxious thoughts, defeating beliefs about self, or physical and emotional symptoms from trauma or stress, ACT offers a way to gently welcome a young person into therapy using a trauma-informed lens.

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ACT for ADHD

Instead of pushing against symptoms like impulsiveness, emotional dysregulation, and racing thoughts, ACT for ADHD is designed to work with these experiences to enhance connectedness with self. This approach combines emotional work with skill building to help you feel in control of your counselling journey. With support, we will help expand your psychological flexibility and integrate your experiences as an ADHDer.

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The ACT hexaflex 

Diagram titled 'The ACT Hexaflex' illustrating core ACT processes: staying in the present, acceptance of life's difficulties, acceptance of thoughts, connecting with values, value-driven action, self as context, and staying in the present. It features icons of a person, hearts, hands, a book, and arrows connecting these concepts.

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There are six core processes at the heart of ACT, visually represented by the ACT ‘hexaflex’. This includes staying in the present moment, acceptance, defusion, self as context, committed action, and values. ACT is different than other behavioral therapies because it’s non-linear - this means that at any point in time, we can work with any of the core processes when we feel stuck. This allows the client and therapist to take a flexible approach to healing.

In your therapy sessions, we will visit these six core processes to help you achieve the lifelong skill of psychological flexibility. We will explore your history, coping strategies and any barriers you encounter, as ACT helps us learn what’s important to you. Then, with mindfulness skills and in-session practice, we will help you to manage difficult thoughts and feelings, and be fully engaged in what you are doing.

“The greater our psychological flexibility—our capacity to be fully conscious, to open to our experience, and to act guided by our values—the greater our quality of life.”

Russ Harris, ACT Made Simple

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