Whether you’re here to learn, teach, connect, collaborate, or grow your practice, RIACT is here to support the clinician you are now and the one you are becoming.
Where ACT Becomes Behavior.
Flex Lab is a structured practice space for clinicians who want to deepen skill, confidence, and flexibility using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Functional Contextualism (FC)
Rather than each clinician operating in isolation, paying full cost for tools, software, marketing, and business systems, we share the load—reducing individual burden while strengthening collective outcomes.
The RIACT residency program supports associate practitioners (LMHC-A, LMFT-A) in building the skills, experience, and business acumen needed to succeed as ACT practitioners and private practice owners.
The Rhode Island ACT Collective (RIACT) is more than an organization, it’s a living ecosystem of clinicians, educators, and community partners working together to build a flexible, values-driven model for mental health practice.
The following is a basic overview of an ACT therapeutic stance. This is not to say are hard and fast rule that you must hold yourself to. We will all slip up, but rather see this as a guideline for how best to engage for the betterment of all involved.
Practical worksheets, metaphors, conceptualization templates, assessment tools, and interventions designed to support intentional, process-based clinical work.
Whether you’re here to learn, teach, connect, collaborate, or grow your practice, RIACT is here to support the clinician you are now and the one you are becoming.
The first time I truly understood the Drop the Rope metaphor wasn’t while reading about it or practicing it with a client, it was while watching Steven Hayes use it in a training video.
Functional Contextualism is a way of understanding why people do what they do by looking at the situation they’re in and the experiences they've had in the past. Instead of just focusing on a single behavior by itself, FC asks questions like:
* Where is this happening?
* What’