ACT Coach
ACT Coach
ACT Coach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) aims to help you live with unpleasant thoughts, feelings, and impulses without avoiding them or being controlled by them. In ACT, you are encouraged to commit to actions so that you can live your life by your values, even in the face of these unpleasant experiences.
ACT Coach was developed for Veterans, service members, and other people who are in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with a therapist. The app offers exercises, tools, information, and tracking logs so you can practice what you're learning during therapy in your daily life.
Features include:
- Information about what ACT is and how it works
- Mindfulness exercises, including mindful breathing, mindful walking, mindful eating, observing thoughts, observing sensations, and observing emotions
- Interactive tools to facilitate values-based living, including assistance identifying values, developing a list of personal actions to support those values, and tips and reminders to help you stay motivated to work towards living those values
- Tools to track your mindfulness practice and coping strategies
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Introduction to the ACT Coach app
ACT Coach is a free and publicly available mobile app for people who are participating in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with a mental health provider.
How to Use ACT Coach
ACT Coach was designed to be used with a mental health care provider as part of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. It is not meant to be used for self-care.
Privacy and Security
See our full Privacy Policy for Mobile Apps.
Any data created by the user of this app are only as secure as the phone/device itself. Use the security features on your device if you are concerned about the privacy of your information. Users are free to share data, but as the self-monitoring data belongs to each user, HIPAA concerns do not apply while the data are stored or shared. If the user were to transmit or share data with a health care provider, the provider must then comply with HIPAA rules.
Who created ACT Coach?
ACT Coach was created by VA's National Center for PTSD.
