Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in San Francisco

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)


Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can help you learn to identify your values, embrace your feelings, and more gracefully accept your circumstances so that you can build a better quality of life.

At Calm Again Counseling, we offer several forms of trauma-informed therapy, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, to help people heal from traumatic events and move toward recovery in the San Francisco area. Trauma can prevent you from moving forward and reaching your goals. The effects of trauma can limit your ability to make sense of your life and leave you feeling broken and powerless.

People who’ve experienced trauma may experience:

  • Trouble concentrating

  • Difficulty making decisions

  • Hypervigilance

  • Desire to withdraw from people

  • Hopelessness

  • Intrusive memories or flashbacks

Ongoing struggling with the effects of trauma can keep you from living the life you deserve. Our trauma-informed therapists provide a safe and compassionate atmosphere for trauma survivors to experience Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. You don’t have to feel stuck in an endless loop of suffering. Our licensed therapists can help you finally break free from your negative feelings using ACT and begin your healing process.

Acceptance and commitment therapy can help you work through trauma and rediscover inner peace.

If you’re afraid to process your trauma, you are not alone. Many people want to simply “forget” their past because it’s scary and overwhelming. The good news is that trauma therapy can help you learn to embrace your feelings, which helps you move through them more fluidly. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can help address many issues, including:

Learn to live in the present again.

Many people feel stuck in their lives because of their past. Anyone can lose sight of their values, especially when circumstances trigger stress and anxiety. Acceptance and commitment therapy

(ACT) aims to help clients embrace their suffering and live more fully in the present, along with their suffering. As a form of behavioral therapy, ACT guides clients to take positive action.

Many people who feel broken or powerless due to their circumstances. Rather than avoid and escape your suffering, ACT helps you face difficult feelings and challenges head-on. This evidence-based treatment promotes cognitive flexibility so clients can handle whatever happens in their lives.Get Started Today

FAQs

If you’re unfamiliar with acceptance and commitment therapy, you may have questions about how it can help you. Here are a few questions we receive about ACT.

What Is Acceptance and Commitment (ACT) Therapy?

Cognitive therapies like ACT focus on helping people accept their feelings rather that try to change them. ACT encourages individuals to mindfully turn toward their suffering, rather than away from it. ACT therapists use techniques to promote psychological flexibility and emotional resilience. ACT helps you slow down and embrace your suffering so that you can move meaningfully forward in your life. If you feel stuck in your life and need help understanding why you can’t move forward, ACT can help.

Is ACT Different From Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?

While CBT posits that people suffer because their thinking is irrational, ACT posits that people suffer because they resist and avoid their suffering, and end up living lives that are out of line with their personal values.

Does ACT Focus On Core Principles Or Techniques?

Yes. ACT focuses on six core principles: acceptance, cognitive defusion, self-as-context, mindfulness, committed action, and value clarification. Therapists who use ACT focus on techniques like mindfulness and values-based goal setting. They also use defusion exercises to help individuals shift away from unhealthy thoughts.

ACT encourages people to focus on what difficult parts of their life they can accept, and which parts they can change. Mindfulness is an essential technique that helps people remain present without trying to change or predict the future. This technique allows people to process in a gentle way so they can choose what they need to change or accept.

What Issues Can ACT Help People Recover From?

ACT can help people recover from various issues including anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and chronic pain. It can also help address the symptoms surrounding post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other types of trauma.

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Contact Calm Again Counseling and connect with a therapist today. We can teach you the tools you need to gain control of your life. Connect with us today and let us help you break free from stress and move toward healing.