ACT Your Way to the Life You Love An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Workbook

by Stepka LMFT, LPCC, Allison

• ISBN13: 9798350957952
• ISBN10: 8350957956
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2024-07-01
• Publisher: BookBaby
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Summary

ACT Your Way to the Life You love is a comprehensive guide designed to help individuals understand the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and use the tools to navigate a life of meaning and purpose. With a combination of psychoeducation, exercises, and worksheets, this workbook helps foster personal growth and psychological flexibility.

Structured into a six-week corresponding online course, this ACT workbook walks its readers through the ACT six core processes: acceptance, defusion, present moment awareness, the observing self, values, and committed action. Each section offers an explanation of these concepts, as well as accompanying worksheets that allow individuals to explore their internal experiences, increase self-wareness, and develop helpful coping strategies to increase emotional resilience for managing difficult emotions and challenging life situations.

While our instincts tell us to avoid difficult feelings like anxiety and depression, this often pulls us further from living the life we want. Through mindfulness exercises and values clarification, this workbook allows individuals to develop deeper meaning and purpose within their lives by engaging in increased values-based living. Dive into this workbook for a structured framework for personal transformation and emotional well-being.

Author Biography

Allison Stepka is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Professional Clinical Counselor based in Los Angeles, CA. She graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a BA in Psychology with an emphasis in Neuroscience, and Pepperdine University with a MA in Clinical Psychology. Allison has extensive experience utilizing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for the treatment of OCD and Anxiety, and is also trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to address trauma.