Online ACT therapy from just $35/session with licensed therapists (PhD, PsyD, LCSW, LMHC, LMFT) trained in evidence-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. At Grouport, we offer online individual therapy, online group therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, teen therapy, and virtual IOP options. ACT is recognized by the American Psychological Association as an empirically supported treatment for depression, anxiety, OCD, chronic pain, and more.
Instead of trying to eliminate difficult thoughts and feelings, ACT helps you change your relationship to them so they no longer control your life. Through mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based action, you learn to move forward even when things feel hard. Whether you prefer one-on-one care or the shared support of a therapist-led group, our online ACT connects you to expert guidance from the comfort of home. Schedule a free call to learn if ACT is right for you.
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At Grouport, we offer multiple ways to access evidence-based online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), all led by licensed clinicians. Whether you prefer group sessions, one-on-one therapy, couples or family formats, teen therapy, or a high-intensity IOP program, our ACT-informed offerings are designed to help you build psychological flexibility, clarify your values, and take meaningful action. Many members choose to combine formats for the most comprehensive support.
Our research-backed online ACT therapy is tailored to your schedule, goals, and challenges, with flexible options including group, individual, couples, family, teen, and IOP formats. Here is how you can get started with our licensed therapists in the format that fits you best.
Whether you're interested in group therapy, individual sessions, couples or family therapy, or IOP, you'll start by selecting the type of support that fits your needs. Complete our onboarding form and sign up directly for the plan that suits you best.
After signing up, you'll connect with a dedicated care coordinator who will walk you through available therapists, group options, and scheduling. You'll make the final choice about your care based on your goals, preferences, and schedule.
Attend your weekly online sessions at the cadence that works best for you. Your therapist will guide you through ACT techniques including mindfulness exercises, cognitive defusion, values clarification, and committed action planning. Our team will support you every step of the way.
Whether you are interested in online ACT group therapy, individual ACT sessions, a combination of both, or our IOP program for more intensive care, you will start by selecting the format that fits your needs and schedule. Complete our onboarding form and sign up directly for the plan that suits you best.
After signing up, you will connect with a dedicated care coordinator who will discuss your mental health challenges, goals, and preferences. They will walk you through the range of ACT therapy options best suited to your needs. You will make the final choice about your care, including which therapists you will meet with and session times.
Attend your weekly online ACT sessions to build core skills like mindfulness, acceptance, cognitive defusion, values clarification, and committed action. Our team will be here to support you at every step, ensuring you are happy with your care plan and helping you make changes whenever needed.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based form of psychotherapy developed by Dr. Steven C. Hayes in the 1980s. It belongs to the "third wave" of behavioral therapies alongside DBT and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy. Unlike traditional CBT, which focuses on changing the content of negative thoughts, ACT teaches you to change your relationship to those thoughts so they no longer dictate your behavior.
ACT is built on six interconnected core processes that together create psychological flexibility: Acceptance (making room for difficult feelings instead of fighting them), Cognitive Defusion (learning to observe thoughts without getting caught up in them), Present Moment Awareness (being fully engaged in the here and now), Self-as-Context (connecting with a stable sense of self beyond your thoughts), Values (clarifying what truly matters to you), and Committed Action (taking concrete steps aligned with your values, even when it is uncomfortable).
The American Psychological Association recognizes ACT as an empirically supported treatment for:
ACT is also endorsed by the Department of Veterans Affairs for mood disorders and has been adopted by the World Health Organization for its Self-Help Plus program.
ACT does not promise to make pain disappear. It helps you stop letting pain run the show. Here is what that shift looks like in real life.
Before ACT, you might spend hours trapped in spirals of "what if" thinking, ruminating on the past, or worrying about the future. Cognitive defusion teaches you to notice thoughts as just thoughts, not facts you need to act on. You learn to say "I notice I am having the thought that I am not good enough" instead of believing "I am not good enough." The spiral loses its grip.
Anxiety and fear often shrink your world by pushing you to avoid anything uncomfortable. ACT helps you clarify your values (what truly matters to you) and commit to action even when it feels scary. You might still feel nervous giving a presentation or going on a date, but you do it anyway because it aligns with who you want to be.
Most people spend enormous energy trying to suppress, distract from, or "fix" uncomfortable emotions. ACT teaches acceptance: the willingness to experience sadness, anger, fear, or grief without needing to make them go away. Paradoxically, when you stop fighting your emotions, they often become less overwhelming. You free up energy that was going toward the fight and redirect it toward living.
When you are caught up in worry about the future or regret about the past, you miss the life happening right in front of you. ACT develops present moment awareness, helping you engage fully with conversations, meals, walks, and everyday moments. You start noticing the richness of experiences you used to rush through or miss entirely.
When you are rigid and avoidant, relationships suffer. You might hold back from vulnerability, shut down during conflict, or withdraw when things get hard. ACT builds psychological flexibility, helping you stay open and present with the people you care about. You learn to listen without defensiveness, express your needs without aggression, and stay connected even during disagreements.
Many people discover in ACT that they have been making decisions based on what they want to avoid rather than what they want to move toward. Values clarification, a cornerstone of ACT, helps you identify what genuinely matters to you: connection, creativity, integrity, adventure, family, growth. When your daily actions align with your values, life feels more meaningful, even during hard times.
ACT sessions are collaborative, experiential, and often surprising. Here is what your first sessions will look like.
Your therapist will learn about your current struggles and what brought you to therapy. A key early step in ACT is "creative hopelessness," where you and your therapist examine the strategies you have been using to manage difficult thoughts and feelings and honestly evaluate whether they have been working. This is not about blame; it is about recognizing when the struggle itself has become the problem.
Your therapist will help you explore what truly matters to you, not what you think you should care about, but what gives your life meaning and direction. Values like connection, creativity, integrity, health, family, or growth become your compass for the work ahead. This is often one of the most powerful and emotional parts of ACT.
Through experiential exercises, metaphors, and guided practice, your therapist will teach you ACT core skills: how to be present in the moment, how to observe your thoughts without getting caught up in them, and how to make room for difficult emotions without being overwhelmed. ACT uses creative, often surprising exercises rather than traditional worksheets.
ACT is not just about acceptance. It is about action. Together with your therapist, you will identify concrete, meaningful steps you can take between sessions that move you toward the life you want to live. These committed actions may feel uncomfortable at first, and that is the point: ACT builds your ability to act on your values even in the presence of difficulty.
See how our therapy options have helped our members experience life-changing results
Stephanie
“Grouport is time flexible and affordable and if it didn’t exist, I don’t know where I would go. I had looked into other places before Grouport and there really wasn’t any option like it.”
Michael
“I highly recommend this to anyone who is struggling with anxiety or depression. The therapists are top notch and have made me feel really comfortable and my anxiety has improved tremendously in only a few sessions!”
Isabel
"I joined Grouport to work on myself and to heal. I’m learning so much at every session! The change I see not only in myself but in my fellow group members is abundantly encouraging and profoundly fulfilling. Group therapy with Grouport is a powerful healing tool."
Sheldon
“I was feeling very down at the end of 2020 and I was ready to do something drastic that I know I'd likely regret. The group definitely helped show me that there are people who feel the same way as I do.”
Nancy
“The therapy from Grouport is high quality and convenient. I am becoming much more self aware and am liking myself more. My relationships at work are better and I’m much happier.”
Emily
“I like the connection you can make with total strangers and the confidentiality it comes with.”
Danielle
"Grouport can help you with your issues. Their therapists are well trained to work with you on your issues. I felt my anxiety greatly improve after only a few sessions. I highly recommend it!"
Glenn
"Grouport's approach to DBT is a real strength. This approach provides tools and methods for working with difficult emotions and getting a handle on them. It has given me hope where other approaches have failed."
ACT is a transdiagnostic therapy, meaning it works across many different conditions rather than targeting just one. The American Psychological Association recognizes ACT as empirically supported for the conditions below.
ACT helps with depression by teaching you to stop battling depressive thoughts and feelings and instead redirect your energy toward valued action. Rather than waiting to "feel better" before engaging with life, ACT helps you take meaningful steps even in the presence of low mood. Research shows ACT is as effective as CBT for depression, and the APA lists it as an empirically supported treatment.
ACT is recognized by the APA as an empirically supported treatment for mixed anxiety disorders. Instead of trying to eliminate anxious thoughts, ACT teaches you to make room for anxiety while still taking the actions that matter to you. Cognitive defusion techniques help you unhook from "what if" spirals, and values-based action helps you expand your life rather than shrink it around your fears.
ACT is one of the most effective psychological treatments for chronic pain. A 2022 systematic review of meta-analyses concluded that ACT showed the "most robust effects" for chronic pain and should be "prioritized for implementation in clinical practice." ACT helps you develop a different relationship with pain, reducing its impact on your life by increasing acceptance and re-engaging with activities and relationships that matter to you.
The APA recognizes ACT as an empirically supported treatment for OCD. ACT helps people with OCD develop willingness to experience intrusive thoughts without performing compulsions. By learning cognitive defusion (seeing thoughts as just thoughts, not commands) and acceptance (allowing discomfort without acting on it), people with OCD can break the obsession-compulsion cycle and reclaim their lives.
ACT is particularly effective for workplace stress, caregiver burnout, and life transition stress because it addresses the underlying patterns of avoidance and rigidity that keep people stuck. By clarifying values and committing to action, ACT helps you make decisions that align with what matters rather than reacting to pressure. Mindfulness skills provide a way to stay grounded during high-stress periods.
ACT addresses the experiential avoidance that often drives substance use. Instead of using substances to escape difficult feelings, ACT builds willingness to experience discomfort and redirects behavior toward valued goals. Research shows ACT can complement traditional recovery approaches, and its emphasis on values-based living aligns naturally with long-term recovery.
Every Grouport therapist is a licensed, accredited mental health professional with specialized training in evidence-based approaches including ACT, and extensive clinical experience.
Our therapists typically have over a decade of clinical experience across diverse settings, with specialized expertise in acceptance-based and mindfulness-based interventions, anxiety disorders, depression, OCD, chronic pain, stress, and a wide range of evidence-based approaches. Our therapists are trained in ACT and other proven modalities to provide the best fit for your needs.
We continually evaluate outcomes through internal studies and outcomes studies with researchers from leading universities such as Carnegie Mellon, University of Essex, and University of Cologne.
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80%
of our members start with moderate to severe mental health symptoms
70%
of our members feel significantly better within just 8 weeks
50%
of our members achieve remission levels within just 8 weeks
Group, individual, couples, family, IOP, and teen therapy — all online, all therapist-led. Mix and match care options to fit your needs — and get discounted pricing when you bundle.
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ACT is a transdiagnostic therapy effective across a wide range of mental health conditions. Our licensed therapists are experienced in treating all of these challenges and more.
ACT is an evidence-based form of psychotherapy that uses mindfulness and acceptance strategies alongside commitment and behavior-change techniques to increase psychological flexibility. Rather than trying to eliminate difficult thoughts and feelings, ACT helps you change your relationship to them so they no longer control your behavior. ACT is recognized by the American Psychological Association as an empirically supported treatment and by the Department of Veterans Affairs as an evidence-based therapy for mood disorders.
The American Psychological Association recognizes ACT as an empirically supported treatment for depression, mixed anxiety disorders, psychosis, chronic pain, and OCD. It is also endorsed by the Department of Veterans Affairs for mood disorders. ACT is used for stress, substance use, eating disorders, and many other conditions.
Yes. Our therapists are licensed mental health professionals (PhD, PsyD, LCSW, LMHC, LMFT) trained in evidence-based approaches including ACT. Our network includes clinicians with specialized training in mindfulness-based and acceptance-based interventions.
✅ Licensed Psychologists (PhD, PsyD)
✅ Licensed Social Workers (LCSW)
✅ Licensed Mental Health Counselors (LMHC)
✅ Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists (LMFT)
While CBT focuses on changing the content of negative thoughts, ACT focuses on changing your relationship to those thoughts. ACT teaches you to observe difficult thoughts without getting entangled in them (cognitive defusion), rather than trying to replace them with more positive ones. Both are evidence-based and can be complementary.
Many people begin to notice shifts in how they relate to difficult thoughts and feelings within the first few sessions. ACT skills build over time, with most treatment courses running 8 to 16 sessions. At Grouport, 70% of our members feel significantly better within just 8 weeks.
Yes. Research supports the effectiveness of online ACT therapy. All Grouport sessions are held via secure, HIPAA-compliant video chat. ACT's experiential exercises, mindfulness practices, and values work all translate well to the virtual setting.
ACT is available across multiple therapy formats:
✅ Group Therapy: Avg. $32/session ($140/month)
✅ Individual Therapy: Avg. $103/session ($448/month)
✅ Couples Therapy: Avg. $114/session ($496/month)
✅ Family Therapy: Avg. $148/session ($644/month)
✅ IOP: $311/week
✅ Teen Therapy: Avg. $103/session ($448/month)
Payment Options: Monthly, Quarterly (Save 10%), Biannually (Save 15%). Switch therapists anytime. Cancel anytime!
ACT is built on six interconnected processes: Acceptance (opening up to difficult feelings), Cognitive Defusion (unhooking from unhelpful thoughts), Present Moment Awareness (being here now), Self-as-Context (a stable sense of self beyond your thoughts), Values (clarifying what matters most), and Committed Action (taking steps aligned with your values).
Our therapy outcomes are backed by outcomes studies with researchers from leading universities such as Carnegie Mellon, University of Essex, and University of Cologne.
80% of members start with moderate to severe symptoms.
70% see clinically significant reduction within 8 weeks.
50% achieve remission levels within 8 weeks.
Grouport provides online group therapy, individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, teen therapy, intensive outpatient program (IOP), all held virtually over video chat. We also offer a DBT self-guided program. Many members combine multiple therapy types to best fit their needs.
You can cancel anytime, and your membership will remain active until the end of your current billing period. After that, your plan will not renew, and no further payments will be charged. To cancel, email us at support@grouporttherapy.com and we will send you a quick cancellation form to fill out. You can view more information on our Recurring Billing Policy.
Grouport is available worldwide for everyone! We serve clients of all ages and backgrounds, with all sessions held virtually over video chat. We offer separate therapy groups for Adults (18+) and Teens & Adolescents (under 18). No matter where you are, you can get the support you need from the comfort of home.
Yes! After signing up, a care coordinator will reach out to understand your needs and match you with the right therapist and schedule. You can switch therapists anytime.
✅ You will be able to choose your therapist.
✅ Most members are placed within a few hours, or within 24-72 hours max.
✅ Flexible options: If you ever want to switch therapists, we can easily make adjustments to ensure the best fit.
No. Acceptance in ACT does not mean resignation or giving up. It means making room for difficult thoughts and feelings instead of fighting them, so you can redirect your energy toward actions that align with your values. ACT is about living a richer, more meaningful life, not passively accepting a painful one.
Yes. ACT works well on its own and also pairs effectively with medication for many conditions. Research shows that for moderate to severe depression and anxiety, combining therapy with medication often produces better outcomes than either treatment alone.
ACT may be a strong fit if you feel stuck in cycles of overthinking or avoidance, if you have tried to control or eliminate negative thoughts without lasting success, if you want to clarify what matters most to you and take meaningful action, or if you want a mindfulness-based approach that does not require you to meditate for long periods. Schedule a free call to discuss your options.
Both formats use the same evidence-based ACT techniques. Individual ACT gives you dedicated one-on-one time with your therapist for personalized work. Group ACT adds the benefit of practicing mindfulness and acceptance skills with others, normalizing shared struggles, and building community support. Many members combine both formats.
Whether you are struggling with anxiety, depression, chronic pain, OCD, stress, or simply feeling stuck in patterns that are not serving you, ACT can help you build the psychological flexibility to live a richer, more meaningful life. With licensed therapists, evidence-based techniques, and flexible online formats, Grouport makes it easy to get started. Take the first step toward living by your values today.
