ACT techniques and exercises for psychological flexibility, defusion, values clarification, and committed action. Acceptance and commitment therapy resources for therapists.
Rather than providing reassurance (which reinforces anxiety cycles), use small, graduated behavioral experiments where the child predicts something bad will happen, then observes the actual outcome.…
Use ACT's values clarification work to help clients distinguish between their authentic values and introjected maternal standards. Ask directly: "If your mother's voice wasn't in your head, what…
Use ACT values worksheets to have each partner independently identify their core values, then facilitate a structured conversation about how codependent behaviors conflict with those values. This…
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