Addressing the Gap

If you have been looking for Mental Health services, you, like most Americans, have most likely found it quite difficult to access care.

It takes forever to find someone taking new clients and when you do, there is usually a long wait time. On top of this, many are faced with having to go out of network, the therapist does not take your insurance, or there is a high deductible or copay making it unaffordable.

Our Solution

ACT Urgently is our solution to help address this gap.

In a limited number of brief therapy sessions, we have trained and come up with a way to help you learn how to deal with uncomfortable situations, adjust unworkable strategies, and increase your psychological flexibility so that you can find small activities and move toward a valued future through those activities.

This approach enables us to offer brief (less than 30 minute sessions), affordable ($35-60/session) and effective outpatient, individualized, psychological care, available within 72 hours, with positive results typically occurring within 1-3 sessions. Although, services are not limited to only this amount. It depends upon you and what your challenges are.

Our Treatment Focus

We help those dealing with chronic pain, anxiety and depression, become more open, aware, and engaged based on their inner strengths. We achieve this with an evidenced based approach, listening to your concerns, and customizing a actionable plan with you in a safe, neutral space.

Our Process

We promise to be there for you and to help you get through the immediate challenge by:

Pinpointing places where you tend to get stuck
Show you ways to manage distressing experiences
Helping you find what matters most based upon your personal values so that you can discover actions you can take to become "unstuck"

Our Treatment Focus

The Six Central Skills

Acceptance

Sometimes called Expansion, this process is about creating space for emotions, impulses, and feelings that we might otherwise suppress or avoid, allowing you to avoid over-inflating them or wasting too much energy on them so that you can move on more easily.

Cognitive Defusion

This is a mindfulness strategy that involves recognizing our psychological experiences objectively rather than perceiving them as threats or facts. You feelings, therefore, are simply feelings and not omens of impending doom and thoughts are thoughts and not necessarily true, clever, or important.

Being Present

Fostering an awareness of how you’re currently feeling right in this moment, both physically and mentally rather than dwelling on the past or worrying about the future. ACT exercises and activities on mindfulness are helpful in this respect.

Self as Context

Sometimes called the Observing Self, this skill helps you to see how your psychological and physical experiences are transient and ever-changing so that you

can perceive your emotions, sensations, and thoughts instead of letting them define you.

Values Clarification

A process in which you explore and clarify the things that you

hold personally meaningful. Values Clarification exercises and worksheets are used often and have been shown to help clients find direction and motivation.

Committed Action

This principle or process is about goal-setting, and the idea is that these are long-term life goals which are values-based. ACT practitioners use these "experiments" to help you commit to and work with engagement toward goals through action.