Steven Hayes

Steven Hayes

Steven C. Hayes, PhD, is the co-founder of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), best-selling author of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life and Nevada Foundation Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada.  An author of 44 books and nearly 600 scientific articles, he has shown in his research how language and thought leads to human suffering, and has developed ACT as a way of correcting these processes.  Hayes has been president of several scientific societies and has received several national awards, such as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

 

 

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The Client Who's Tried Everything

ACT and ISTDP Tackle One Challenging Case

Steven Hayes, the cofounder of ACT, and Steve Shapiro, a senior ISTDP trainer, explore how they'd work with a client who's tried everything. Read more

Steven Hayes

The Power of Commitment

Mindfulness Is Only the Beginning

Founder of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Steven Hayes explains why mindfulness is only a beginning in the process of change. Read more

Three Tenets of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Discovering Our Values by Confronting Our Fears

Using our fears as guideposts to who we really want to be starts with accepting them. Read more