7
LICENSED CLINICIANS
60 min
SESSIONS
$150
SELF-PAY RATE
Free
15-MINUTE CALL
The Struggle Is the Trap
You have tried not thinking about it. You have tried arguing with it, numbing it, out-running it, and waiting until you feel ready. Notice the result: the anxiety is still here, and the life you wanted has gotten smaller while you fought it.
ACT starts from an honest premise: pain is not optional in a human life, but struggle is. The frantic effort to not feel what you feel is often the engine of the problem, not the solution to it.
The alternative is not resignation. It is dropping the rope in the tug-of-war so both hands are free for the things you actually care about.
Acceptance, Defusion, and Committed Action
ACT builds psychological flexibility through a handful of trainable skills. Acceptance: making room for feelings without obeying or fighting them. Defusion: seeing thoughts as thoughts, weather passing through, rather than orders or facts. Presence: coming back from the rehearsed future and re-litigated past into the only place life happens.
Then the second half of the name: values and committed action. What do you want your life to be about, said in your own words, and what is one concrete step toward it this week, anxiety cordially invited to come along?
ACT has a deep research base across anxiety, depression, chronic pain and addiction, and it pairs naturally with the trauma work we do.
What ACT Helps With
ACT shines where the fight against inner experience has taken over.
Anxiety & worry. Living forward while anxiety mutters, instead of waiting for it to leave first.
Depression. Movement toward what matters, even before the mood agrees to come.
Trauma aftermath. Room for what happened without the constant management of every reminder.
Addiction. Urges surfed rather than obeyed, and a life worth staying sober for.
Grief. Carrying love and loss together, without being ordered to move on.
Chronic stress & burnout. Untangling from the mental noise and re-choosing what the hours go to.
What ACT Actually Looks Like
ACT sessions are experiential. Expect metaphors that stick with you for years, brief eyes-closed exercises, and questions that reroute the usual argument: not is this thought true, but does obeying it take you toward the life you want?
Expect your values to be treated as the compass, not as a slogan. Small committed actions get chosen together and reviewed honestly.
People often report the same paradox the research shows: when the war ends, the symptoms quiet down on their own schedule, and it matters less, because life is already moving.
Common Questions About ACT
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: an evidence-based approach that builds psychological flexibility, so thoughts and feelings stop running the show and values do.
No. It means ending the unwinnable war with your inner weather so your energy goes to the life you want instead.
CBT examines and revises thoughts; ACT changes your relationship to thoughts so they carry less command. Many people use both.
Yes, with hundreds of trials across anxiety, depression, chronic pain and addiction.
Questions About Our Services
Yes. We accept Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, DMBA, EMI, PEHP, Select Health, UMR, United Healthcare and University of Utah plans, and TRICARE is coming soon. Participation varies by clinician, so we check your plan before your first session.
Our self-pay rate is $150 for a 60 minute session, the same for every therapist on the team.
That is what the free 15 minute call is for. Tell us what has been going on and we will tell you who fits, which approach we would start with, and when that person can see you.