Contributed by Steven Hayes

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The Client Who's Tried Everything

ACT and ISTDP Tackle One Challenging Case

How do you approach a first session with a client who's tried all kinds of different therapies and yet continues to struggle? Steven Hayes, the cofounder of... Read more

Three Tenets of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Discovering Our Values by Confronting Our Fears

Learning to accept our fears as guideposts to who we really want to be. Read more

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.