ACT North Florida

The ACT Processes for psychological flexibility.

Attention Flexibility

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.

Emotional Flexibility

Attention Flexibility

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.

Purpose Flexibility

Attention Flexibility

Perspective Flexibility

Choose what matters. Become clear on what it authentically and uniquely important to you. Classically known as "Values" in the ACT Hexaflex.

Perspective Flexibility

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.

Thinking flexibility

Perspective Flexibility

Thinking flexibility

Let it be. Identifying the thoughts you are having without believing, challenging, or fighting them. Classically known as "Cognitive diffusion" in the ACT Hexaflex.

Behavior Flexibility

Perspective Flexibility

Thinking flexibility

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.

Start here:

Pause and notice.

Get curious about yourself.

Shift your shoulds.

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!

Shift your shoulds.

Get curious about yourself.

Shift your shoulds.

"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.

Get curious about yourself.

Think2Perform Values Exercise

Online sorting exercise.

VIA Character Strengths Survey

Requires email and 25 minute time commitment

Clarity of your values gives you flexibility in purpose and meaning.

Anne Marie Hathcock, mental flexibility trainer, creative clinician

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 to get clients and couples of all ages stuck in their suffering, moving towards a value-driven life.

I work with clients with ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, and OCD. Life transitions such as moving house, marriage, divorce, parenting, midlife, perimenopause, grief & loss can cause worry, stress, identity concerns, and general sadness or emotional numbness.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a person-centered, existential, process-based, integrative-friendly framework that aligns with the curiosity, creativity, playfulness, and nerdiness I bring to the therapuetic relationship.

Psychological flexibiliy

Language as an intervention

Psychological flexibiliy

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. .

Functional contextualism

Language as an intervention

Psychological flexibiliy

Truth is defined by what is useful in achieving effective action toward one’s values.

Language as an intervention

Intentional use of therapeutic language and strategic conversation to shift the relationship between our thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Play as an intervention

Language as an intervention

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.

Existential philosophy

Play as an intervention

Existential philosophy

Exploring life's hardest questions for greater clarity, resilience and a deeper sense of purpose.

Value-aligned action

Play as an intervention

Existential philosophy

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.

Mental Flexibilty Training

A playful, process-based therapy approach firmly grounded in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

The ACT Processes for psychological flexibility.

Attention Flexibility

Attention Flexibility

Attention Flexibility

Emotional Flexibility

Attention Flexibility

Attention Flexibility

Purpose Flexibility

Attention Flexibility

Perspective Flexibility

Perspective Flexibility

Perspective Flexibility

Perspective Flexibility

Thinking flexibility

Perspective Flexibility

Thinking flexibility

Behavior Flexibility

Perspective Flexibility

Thinking flexibility

Stop asking if it's right or wrong, rather what’s helpful and working?

Start here:

Pause and notice.

Get curious about yourself.

Shift your shoulds.

Shift your shoulds.

Get curious about yourself.

Shift your shoulds.

Get curious about yourself.

Get curious about yourself.

Get curious about yourself.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom

Anne Marie Hathcock, mental flexibility trainer, creative clinician

Freedom is what is what you do with what's been done to you.

Theoretical and philosophical foundations

Psychological flexibiliy

Language as an intervention

Psychological flexibiliy

Functional contextualism

Language as an intervention

Psychological flexibiliy

Language as an intervention

Language as an intervention

Language as an intervention

Play as an intervention

Play as an intervention

Language as an intervention

Existential philosophy

Play as an intervention

Existential philosophy

Value-aligned action

Play as an intervention

Existential philosophy

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