ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY IN SOUTHINGTON, CT AND VIRTUALLY ACROSS CONNECTICUT AND MASSACHUSETTS
Stop Fighting Your Thoughts. Start Living Your Life.
When you are getting stuck in negative thoughts, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy offers compassionate tools and support to move forward in your life. At Partners in Change Therapy and Consulting, LLC in Connecticut, I offer Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Nurses and Professionals feeling anxious and burned out who want to learn how to make change in their lives– in Southington, CT and online across CT and MA.
Anxiety doesn’t have to keep you stuck. You can move forward with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Are You Someone Who:
Thinks things like ‘I don’t deserve happiness’
Holds yourself to impossible standards
Has stopped doing the things you enjoy because you are just too anxious
Feels like your mind is always somewhere else and you can’t enjoy anything
Has lost confidence and belief in yourself and your abilities
How To Get Unstuck with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
When you’re struggling with anxiety or burnout, it feel like your mind never gives you a break.
You tell yourself:
Stop worrying.
Just think positive.
Why can’t I handle this better?
The harder you push away anxious thoughts, self-doubt, or overwhelm, the louder they become.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy offers a different approach.
Instead of teaching you how to eliminate difficult thoughts and feelings, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps you respond to them differently. You’ll learn how to notice anxious thoughts without letting them control your decisions, make room for uncomfortable emotions, and stay connected to the parts of yourself that matter the most.
Why I use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Whether you’re seeking therapy for anxiety, therapy for burnout, or therapy for nurses, we often believe we have to feel motivated, confident, or completely calm before we can make changes. But that is rarely how life works.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps you move forward even when anxiety, stress, or self-doubt show up. Instead of waiting to feel different before living your life, you’ll learn practical tools to respond to difficult thoughts with more compassion, flexibility, and intention.
Because the goal isn’t to never feel anxious again. The goal is to stop letting anxiety and burnout make your decisions for you.
We will practice mindfulness and grounding
The foundation of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is being in the present moment. We will practice mindfulness, grounding exercises, and connecting with breath to support your body and mind settle into the here and now.
We will notice thoughts and feelings.
To respond differently to what you’re experiencing, you have to notice what your thoughts and feelings are. Together, we will learn tools to recognize and name your thoughts and feelings with more ease, even when they feel really uncomfortable.
What to Expect in an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Session
We will explore what matters most to you and the kind of person you want to be.
We will talk about who you want to be, even when anxiety, stress, or self-doubt show up. Those values become a compass that helps guide your decisions, especially when life is challenging.
We will practice how to show up as the person you want to be.
Real change happens through small, consistent steps. We will identify small action steps that align with your values and put them into practice - so you can experience how it feels to live the life you want- even when difficult thoughts and emotions show up.
Let’s get started
Schedule a consult
We’ll talk through how Acceptance and Commitment Therapy can be helpful to your life goals.
Set your goals
Together, we will develop a treatment plan tailored or your unique symptoms, stressors, and experiences.
Create change
We will practice mindfulness, process current and past experiences, and learn how to accept uncomfortable thoughts and feelings.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy can help you:
Respond to anxiety with greater calm and confidence
Break free from patterns of overthinking and self-criticism
Reduce the impact of burnout and chronic stress
Reconnect with what matters most to you
Take realistic steps towards the life you want- even when life feels hard.
Frequently asked questions about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
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Yes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is a well researched clinical intervention and has been proven to work in treatment for a variety of mental health issues including anxiety, depression, stress, body image, among others.
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Absolutely. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy changes the narrative from ‘be more positive’ to working with the thoughts and feelings you have. There is no expectation to think differently- just openness to allowing your thoughts and feelings to be there as they are.
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Yes. The mindfulness and grounding techniques practiced in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) are helpful in learning how to manage anxiety. ACT also helps you manage overwhelming anxiety thoughts while still doing what is important to you, helping you live the life you want even when anxiety comes up.
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Yes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is unique in its treatment of burnout symptoms. You will learn the tools to get unstuck in the patterns of thinking that keep you in the burnout loop. Also, ACT helps you engage in the activities that are important to you to support healing from the chronic stress of burnout.