Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a unique empirically based psychological intervention that uses a mix of acceptance and mindfulness strategies, together with commitment and behavior change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility. ACT especially illuminates the ways that language entangles clients into futile attempts to wage war against their own inner lives. Through metaphors and experiential exercises clients learn how to make healthy contact with thoughts, feelings, memories, and physical sensations that have been feared and avoided. Clients gain the skills to better understand and accept these events, develop greater clarity about personal values, and find a new ease as they make desired changes in their behavior and lives.