Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), seeks to promote psychological flexibility by encouraging clients, with the use of acceptance and mindfulness techniques, to open up to their distressing experiences in order to move forward in their lives guided by their values. (Hallis, Cameli, Dionne & Knäuper, 2016).
Thus, ACT assumes that our reality changes depending on context and that it is more helpful to look at what works (work- ability or functionality) rather than what is