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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Values

what you decide to do comes from what matters, not from what you feel at that moment.

Values

what you decide to do comes from what matters, not from what you feel at that moment.

  • Confidential
  • Accepts insurance
  • Registered psychologists
  • ERS certified

What is it?

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) starts from an uncomfortable observation: the harder you work at not feeling something, the more room it takes up. Rather than trying to control thoughts and feelings, it works on holding them without handing them the controls, while clarifying what matters to you, so that decisions start being made from there.

Who it is for

Used for anxiety, depression, chronic pain and stress, and particularly useful when a great deal has already been tried without result, or when the difficulty is something that will not go away: an illness, a loss, a circumstance nobody chose.

What a session looks like

There is less talk of solving and more of noticing. Experiential exercises are used, and often metaphors, because some things are not understood by being explained. Part of the work is naming what you want your life to stand for, and what is on hold while you wait to feel better first. Online therapy in English, by video call, with an English-speaking therapist: for people in Portugal and for expats, wherever you live in Europe.

our team

Specialist professionals

Sofia Rebelo
Sofia Rebelo
Psychologist · Licence 23449
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Médis · Multicare · AdvanceCare · Fidelidade · Ageas · AXA · Allianz · Medicare · and others

The invoice for each consultation can be submitted to your health insurer for reimbursement, according to your plan. What you say in your sessions is confidential and never reaches the insurer.

faq

No, and it is the most common confusion. Acceptance here means no longer spending energy on a fight that cannot be won, so it can be spent on what does depend on you. The second half of the name is commitment, and that is the active part: acting towards what matters, with the discomfort still there.

CBT tends to examine whether a thought is accurate and look for a better-fitting one. ACT changes the question: instead of debating whether the thought is true, it works on how much say it gets in your decisions. Neither is better in the abstract, and the choice is made with you in the first consultation.

No. There are exercises in attending to the present moment, because noticing what is happening is part of the work, but they are short and practical, and require no formal meditation practice or belief attached to it.

No. You can book directly on our website or with Sofia, our virtual assistant, without any referral from your GP.

Online only for now, while our clinic in Cascais is being refurbished. We reopen in November, and in-person sessions return with it.

MB Way, Multibanco, debit or credit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Revolut Pay. You can also pay at the clinic itself, in cash or by card, leaving a card on file as a guarantee for the booking. Any credit on your account is applied automatically to your next session.

We have no direct billing agreement with insurers, but we work on a reimbursement basis with the main Portuguese insurers and with ADSE. The invoice for each consultation can be submitted for reimbursement, according to your plan.

Yes. The discount applies automatically, with no sign-ups and no cards: from 5 sessions on you always have a discount, up to 20%.

Yes. Up to 24 hours before the session you can cancel and choose between a full refund to your original payment method or keeping the amount as credit. With less than 24 hours notice there is no refund, but the amount stays as credit valid for 90 days. Rescheduling is possible up to 24 hours before, at no cost.

Yes. All data is processed in accordance with GDPR and the professional confidentiality psychologists are bound by. Our data protection policy explains what we collect, what it is for and how you can exercise your rights.

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