About This Site
This site presents Affect Centered Therapy (ACT),
the new psychotherapeutic orientation created by John Omaha,
Ph.D. ACT consists of three phases:
• Phase I, called Affect
Management Skills Training (AMST) teaches emotion regulation
skills to clinical and non-clinical populations
• Phase II, called ACT, provides techniques for
uncovering and resolving the childhood experiences that
form the basis of most current psychopathology
• Phase III, referred to as Integration, helps the
client's more adaptive, more positively functioning personality
to emerge following phases I and II. The third phase includes
relapse prevention techniques
ACT
ACT is a psychotherapeutic orientation that addresses the
root cause of much psychopathology: emotion dysregulation
and the personality structures that have emerged to deal with
overwhelming, unresolved emotions.
ACT has been used effectively in couple's work. It has been
applied to successful treatment of OCD, Crohn's Disease, disorders
characterized by sexual compulsion, and to treatment of narcissistic
and borderline personality disorders.
ACT provides an effective approach for brief, successful treatment
of the ingestive disorders -- alcoholism, addictions, nicotine
dependency, and eating disorders.
John Omaha, Ph.D.
Dr. Omaha, an innovator in the field of emotion regulation,
created Affect Centered Therapy. He has trained hundreds
of therapists in ACT and AMST throughout the United States,
in Australia, and in Europe. Dr. Omaha conducts outcome
research on ACT and AMST through the Institute for Affect
Centered Therapy, a non-profit he established in Chico,
in northern California.
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