Category: Reviews
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“Grounded in cultural awareness of the needs of gender diverse clients”- Mathew Skinta, PhD
Alex Stitt has accomplished something wonderful; they have fully elaborated the relevance of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy to working with gender and gender identity. This book is grounded in cultural awareness of the needs of gender diverse clients with a strong unifying thread of respect for the agency and autonomy of transgender, genderfluid, and non-binary…
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“A courageous volume that leaves no issue unexamined in its goal of modifying and applying ACT to function as a gender affirmative therapy.” -Steven C. Hayes, PhD
A courageous volume that leaves no issue unexamined in its goal of modifying and applying ACT to function as a gender affirmative therapy. Never condemning, and yet never avoidant, this book asks practitioners to look deeply within themselves and to embark on a values-based journey to create a space in which the full range of…
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“The tone is deceptively casual, the language is decidedly queer, and the range of tools is broad and comprehensive.”- Arlene Lev
Alex Stitt has written a truly delightful, comprehensive, thoughtful, and engaging book about working with trans and nonbinary clients in therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) – a mindfulness based approach – provides a meta framework for understanding gender, sexuality, and intersectional identities. I have learned so much from Alex Stitt’s perspective, about the complexity…
ACT For Gender Identity 