Acceptance & Commitment Therapy worksheets
A "third-wave" approach that emphasizes psychological flexibility, values, and willingness to feel.
ACT, developed by Steven Hayes and colleagues, is built around the goal of psychological flexibility — the ability to stay in contact with the present moment while moving toward what matters.
Rather than trying to change difficult thoughts and feelings, ACT helps people change their relationship to them.
All Acceptance & Commitment Therapy worksheets (13)
Defusion Practice Sheet
A handout introducing several quick defusion techniques (saying "I'm having the thought that...") for changing your relationship to a stick…
Values Clarification Worksheet
A bullseye-style worksheet for ranking life domains and articulating what matters in each one.
Committed Action Planner
A worksheet for translating a value into a small, scheduled, concrete action this week.
Acceptance and Willingness Scale
A reflection sheet on what you would be willing to feel in service of moving toward what you care about.
Self-as-Context Exercise
A guided exercise for noticing the observer behind your experience, distinct from the content of your thoughts.
Choice Point Worksheet
A simple T-shaped worksheet for noticing when a moment is pulling you toward avoidance versus toward your values.
Workability Audit
A worksheet for evaluating a recent strategy not by whether it was right but by whether it actually worked.
Hexaflex Self-Check
A reflection across the six processes of psychological flexibility — defusion, acceptance, present moment, self-as-context, values, committ…
Passengers on the Bus Metaphor
A printable handout of the classic ACT metaphor with prompts for naming your own passengers.
Leaves on a Stream Script
A guided defusion practice script for placing thoughts on imagined leaves and watching them float by.
Funeral Visualization Exercise
A long-arc values exercise asking what you would want said about you if you lived your stated values fully.
Two-Chair Self-Critic Dialogue
A guided two-chair exercise for dialoguing with the inner critic, drawn from emotion-focused therapy.
Intrusive Thought Acceptance Sheet
An ACT-style worksheet for unhooking from intrusive thoughts without trying to suppress them.