Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

Hello!

I'm a new psychotherapist and I would like apply ACT in dental anxiety and dental phobia with children and adults.
Did someone already apply ACT in this area?
Can I receive support, information, tools... ?

I thank you a lot.

Chantal Scharff, belgian psychologist

I find similarities between certain ACT components and EMI (eye movement integration) technique (Steve Andreas, 1993; Danie Beaulieu, 2003), an alternative form of EMDR.

The client needs to be open to his difficult private events while doing the eye movement. Often, the eye movement produces a context to facilitate acceptance and it has the advantage of being a non-intrusive exposition to private content. Words that were so much affectively charged get defused during treatment and the client does not react to them anymore. I find this intriguing when comparing it to RFT and ACT.

I'm using ACT in a group setting at a clinic here in Cheyenne, WY. The results have been extra-ordinary. As a result of this work I have just completed the second in a series of Books following the genre of Steven's "Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy." Mine is titled "Changing Your Mind: a Guide to freeing yourself from your past." It is currently being edited and once this is done it will be ready for publishing. I am looking for the best way to get it read and commented on through this web site. Any suggestions will be appreciated.