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ACT – Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Not fighting your thoughts. Relating to them differently.

ACT helps you make room for difficult thoughts and feelings – and still act in line with what genuinely matters to you.

ACT counselling: light refracting through ribbed glass — an image for looking at the same thing differently

01 — The Approach

Working with life, not against it.

ACT is based on the idea that trying to forcefully avoid or control unwanted thoughts and feelings often causes more suffering than the thoughts and feelings themselves.

Instead of fighting them, you learn to relate to them with more distance and acceptance – while consciously moving towards what genuinely matters to you.

ACT-based counselling is not psychotherapy

ACT originated as a well-researched psychotherapeutic approach and a form of behavioural therapy. In my practice, however, I do not offer medical psychotherapy – I offer psychological counselling and coaching that draws on ACT methods.

That means: no diagnoses, no treatment of medical conditions – instead, support in relating differently to difficult inner experiences and becoming more able to act.

A calm, light-filled room — an image for openness instead of inner struggle
In sessions, we explore a topic "through an ACT lens": not only looking at what's difficult, but also at what you actually want – and what a helpful next step towards it might look like.

02 — The Six Processes

Psychological Flexibility

Six interconnected skills – not a staircase to climb, but an interplay that develops over time.

The goal isn't to feel good all the time. It's to be able to live a good life – even when things are hard.

Understanding ACT

Understanding ACT a little more closely.

There is more behind Acceptance and Commitment Therapy than a collection of individual exercises. If you'd like to go deeper, here are four perspectives on the approach, its origins and its theoretical foundations.

  1. 01Why ACT?Why trying to fully control difficult thoughts and feelings can itself become the problem.
  2. 02The History of ACTHow ACT has developed since the early 1980s out of behavioural science, research on language and clinical work.
  3. 03Relational Frame TheoryWhy language and learned meanings can have such a strong influence on how we experience things.
  4. 04Foundations of ACTPsychological flexibility and the six interconnected ACT processes.
A colonnaded corridor filled with light — a figure calmly walking their own path

03 — In a Session

What ACT can feel like in a session

  1. 1

    Notice

    What's here right now? Which thought, which feeling, which impulse shows up – without needing to judge or change it straight away.

  2. 2

    Create space

    Gain a little distance. Recognise: a thought is a thought, a feeling is a feeling – not an instruction you have to follow.

  3. 3

    Act

    Make a choice that fits what matters to you – even while carrying some uncertainty.

Daniel Hanke

Why I work with ACT

For me, ACT isn't a collection of techniques to apply. It's a stance: meeting difficult inner experiences with more openness – while staying connected to what actually matters in real life.

I bring that stance into every session: calm, honest, and with respect for whatever feels hard right now.

Let's have a short conversation first.

In person on Fridays in Berlin-Kreuzberg · English and German.

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