ACT Helps You Do Life Better - Period! Dr. Michael Twohig on Anxiety, OCD, Trauma, and More

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Dr. Michael Twohig joins Tony to talk about his early involvement in the then “new kid on the psychology block,” acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). Dr. Twohig shares his initial hesitation in embracing ACT and what eventually led him to pursue his Ph.D. in clinical psychology by working with Dr. Stephen Hayes, the founder of ACT. He discusses the differences in using ACT to treat OCD vs. the traditional CBT-based model, and they talk about using metaphor in ACT. Tony shares his experience of how learning ACT changed his therapy practice and his general outlook on life. They discuss the differences between using diffusion in ACT to make room for thoughts and feelings vs. responding to the body’s cues concerning treating trauma. They talk about Dr. Twohig’s new online course on ACT and OCD https://praxiscet.com/virtualcouch and the challenges of marketing an online course. Finally, Tony challenges Dr. Twohig to a “try not to laugh” challenge.Dr. Michael Twohig is a licensed psychologist, a professor at Utah State University, and one of the world’s most published scholars of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Dr. Twohig’s research focuses on using ACT across various clinical presentations emphasizing OCD and related disorders. He has published five books and more than 200 scholarly works and is the former President of the Association of Contextual Behavioral Science, the organization most associated with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy https://contextualscience.org/ (https://contextualscience.org/)You can find out more about Dr. Twohig via his Utah State University page https://cehs.usu.edu/scce/clinicians/twohig-michael (https://cehs.usu.edu/scce/clinicians/twohig-michael) or his private practice website https://junipermh.com/team/michael-twohig/If you are interested in being coached in Tony's upcoming "Magnetic Marriage Podcast," please email him (https://publish.blubrry.com/s-505600/episodes/e-91211779/edit/[email protected]) for more information. You will receive free marriage coaching and remain anonymous when the episode airs. Go to http://tonyoverbay.com/workshop (http://tonyoverbay.com/workshop) to sign up for Tony's "Magnetize Your Marriage" virtual workshop. The cost is only $19, and you'll learn the top 3 things you can do NOW to create a Magnetic Marriage. You can learn more about Tony's pornography recovery program, The Path Back, by visiting http://pathbackrecovery.com (http://pathbackrecovery.com/)And visit

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0:00.0	Hey, oh, oh, oh, come on in and take a seat on the virtual couch.
0:21.9	Hey, everybody.
0:22.5	Welcome to episode 349 of the virtual couch.
0:25.5	I am your host, Tony Overbay.
0:27.0	I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist, certified, mindful habit coach, writer, speaker, husband, father, four,
0:31.6	ultra marathon runner and creator of the Pathback, which is an online pornography recovery program,
0:36.0	and just a heads up going into the
0:38.1	new year. I know New Year, New Year, New You, and I've done episodes about New Year's resolutions
0:42.7	in the past and the science behind them and how to set value-based resolutions and what you do
0:47.7	when you notice that you aren't keeping your resolutions, and all those things. I'm sure that I'll
0:51.3	do another episode here in a few weeks that is similar, but I am going to do something this year that I haven't done before in the vein of New Year,
0:58.6	New You. I am going to offer a discount on my Pathback recovery program, and I'll do that through
1:04.4	the month of December because the pathback is not just about turning to pornography as an unhealthy
1:09.2	coping mechanism, no, it is actually about
1:11.6	becoming a better version of you in general so that you don't have this desire or need to turn to
1:18.3	unhealthy coping mechanisms. So I find that really when you nail down, can you become a better
1:23.6	person in your marriage, a better parent? Can you get your health squared away? Are you
1:29.1	in a job that you enjoy? Or can you work values into your job? And where are you at with your faith?
1:33.4	And if you can address those areas, which I like to call voids, and start to feel better in those
1:38.1	areas, the siren song of turning to unhealthy coping mechanisms, lessons. And that's the big
1:43.7	piece around the path
1:45.1	back, which has been so powerful. And there is also a weekly group call that has been just
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