Ep. 83: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with Steven Hayes
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Anxiety & OCD Strategies for Everyday
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist
4.9 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Steven Hayes Talks Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Welcome back to another INCREDIBLE episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast! Today we have an amazing guest, Steven Hayes.
Steven Hayes is a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Nevada. Steven Hayes has done so much for the psychology field, writing a whopping 44 books (wow, right?!) and many research articles. Steven Hayes also developed the evidence-based therapeutic modality that I use in my therapy office every day: Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (also known as ACT). ACT is a wonderful compliment to Exposure & Response Prevention (ERP), as it relies heavily on Mindfulness, positive reinforcement and using Value-Based Behaviors.
In this interview, Steven Hayes and I discuss what Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) involves and how we can learn to diffuse from our thoughts. You will find this especially helpful with you have anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Panic Disorder, Social Anxiety, and Depression, mostly because we tend to fuse a lot with our thoughts when we struggle with these disorders. However, the truth is, we all could learn the skill of diffusion and Steven Hayes does an amazing job of expelling why. Steven Hayes also teaches us useful ACT tools to stay present, and the practice of living a life that is based on values, not fear or anxiety.
My favorite part of the interview is where Steven Hayes discussed why our thoughts sometimes link together and how it is completely a waste of time trying to block, suppress or avoid thoughts. I am sure you will agree that Steven Hayes is a genius and that he has so much to teach us about our brain, our psyche and how we can react batter to our thoughts.
AND…..WE HAVE A HUGE SURPRISE!
ERP School is BACK! Exposure and Response Prevention School is an online course that teaches you the tools and skills I teach my clients in my office. Let me tell you a little bit about it. The course is a video based course that includes modules on:
- The science behind ERP
- Identifying YOUR obsessions and your compulsions
- The different approaches and types of ERP, including gradual exposure, writing scripts, and interoceptive exposures, as well as how to get creative with ERP
- Mindfulness tools to help you manage anxiety, panic and uncertainty
- Troubleshoot common questions and concerns
- BONUS 6 videos of the most common subtypes of OCD.
The course also includes many downloadable PDF’s and activities to help you navigate how to best apply ERP to your specific obsessions and compulsions.
We are so excited to finally share ERP with you and would love to have you join us and the CBT School Community. It’s a beautiful day to do hard things!
If you are worried about doing it alone, please don’t fear. We meet bi-monthly on the FB group and on Instagram to talk about questions you may have.
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If you would like further information on Steven Hayes and access to his FREE mini course, visit http://www.stevenchayes.com/. Click HERE for more info on Steven Hayes' workbook Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life, as well as his other books.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 83. |
| 0:09.4 | Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. |
| 0:14.3 | This podcast is fueled by three main goals. |
| 0:17.2 | The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to help you manage your anxiety. |
| 0:22.8 | Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life. And number three, |
| 0:29.9 | and I leave the best for last, is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug. Because experiencing |
| 0:36.9 | anxiety ain't easy. If that sounds good to you, let's go. |
| 0:45.7 | Well, welcome back and happy 2019. I am so thrilled to be here with you and spend some time with you. |
| 0:55.9 | Oh my goodness, this year is going to be so exciting. |
| 0:59.8 | We have some amazing guests on. |
| 1:02.6 | And today we're starting off with a huge bang. |
| 1:05.7 | We have a very, very exciting guest on today. |
| 1:08.7 | So I can't wait to get to that with you. But first, I want to give |
| 1:13.1 | you a couple of really exciting announcements. Number one, and this is so exciting, I have been |
| 1:20.3 | wanting to share with you about this for quite a while. I am so honored to be invited to be one of the speakers at this year's OCD Game Changes |
| 1:32.5 | event in Colorado, ran by Chrissy Hodges. |
| 1:36.7 | I don't know if any of you know her. |
| 1:38.0 | I'm sure you do. |
| 1:38.6 | She's been on the podcast before. |
| 1:40.9 | You can follow her on social media. |
| 1:42.8 | She's pure oh, Chrsey, I think it is. |
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