Mindfulness Practices in ACT for Transgender Clients: Building Emotional Awareness

Key Points

  1. In ACT, acceptance focuses on emotional reactions to dysphoria, discrimination, and other challenges, not acceptance of intolerance or dysphoria itself.
  2. Mindfulness is an ongoing practice that helps clients notice and distance themselves from unhelpful thoughts, leading to greater emotional awareness.
  3. Ava’s mindfulness practice involved regular check-ins with herself, which allowed her to develop the skill of noticing and distancing herself from her thoughts.
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Mindfulness and Acceptance in ACT Therapy

In acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), the focus is on fostering mindfulness and emotional awareness. It is important to clarify that acceptance does not mean accepting intolerance, transnegativity, or discrimination in this context. Nor does it mean accepting the feelings of gender dysphoria themselves. Instead, it means accepting our emotional reactions to these experiences.

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