
Stay here. Being present and connected with what is happening right here, right now. Classically known as "Contact with the present moment" in the ACT Hexaflex.
Let it be. The willingness and allowing of the feelings and sensations inside your body to exist as they are without trying to change them. Classically known as "Acceptance" in ACT Hexaflex.
Choose what matters. Become clear on what it authentically and uniquely important to you. Classically known as "Values" in the ACT Hexaflex.
Notice your self. Stepping back and witnessing yourself as an observer to the experience of your thoughts and feelings. Classically known as "Self-as-context" in the ACT Hexaflex.
Let it be. Identifying the thoughts you are having without believing, challenging, or fighting them. Classically known as "Cognitive diffusion" in the ACT Hexaflex.
Do what matters. The ongoing committment to take action towards your values and goals, rather than in avoidance of your fears and anxieties. Classicaly known as "Committed action" in the ACT Hexaflex.

Take a pause and notice everything both inside and around you. Notice the thoughts about what you noticed. And then the thoughts you are having about the thoughts about what you noticed.
That's thinking flexibility!

"Shoulds" are often based on obligations and expectations that come from outside us. Challenge yourself to alternatives like "could, would like, allow, can."
That's flexibilty in perspective and action.

Online sorting exercise.
VIA Character Strengths Survey
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Clarity of your values gives you flexibility in purpose and meaning.
Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety (1844)
counseling intern, MS CMHC
Jacksonville University, August '26
Florida Psychological Associates
This website is designed to support and reflect my developing professional identity as counselor. It serves to share my theoretical and philosophical foundations and develop my clinical creativity fin helping clients of all ages suffering from their symptoms of ADHD, anxiety, depression, OCD and towards a meaning-filled life of their own choosing
John-Paul Satre, Being and Nothingness (1943)
The ability to stay fully grounded in the present moment while choosing behavior that aligns with one’s values—even in the presence of difficult thoughts, emotions, or bodily sensations. .
Truth is defined by what is useful in achieving effective action toward one’s values.
Intentional use of therapeutic language and strategic conversation to shift the relationship between our thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Incorporating play in the therapy relieves the pressure to “find the right words" and taps into nonverbal symbolism to express, process, and make sense of the inner world.
Exploring life's hardest questions for greater clarity, resilience and a deeper sense of purpose.
Humans do not merely react to incentives; they interpret situations through some vision of the good, pursue what they take to be worthwhile, and develop by learning to order competing values more wisely.
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