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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT at Golden Coast Rehab in La Mesa, CA — building a life around your values while difficult thoughts and feelings are present. Medi-Cal welcome. Call (858) 925-8589.

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Learn to see a thought as a thought rather than a fact
Build room to allow a feeling without exhausting yourself suppressing it
Get specific about the values that actually matter to you
Take committed action toward what matters with the anxiety still present
Used for anxiety, chronic depression, substance use, and trauma

Every day, 8am – 8pm
100% confidential — HIPAA & 42 CFR Part 2
Adults 18+ · dual-diagnosis welcome

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Acceptance and commitment therapy shifts the goal from eliminating difficult thoughts to acting on your values while those thoughts are present. It starts from an uncomfortable observation: the effort to control unwanted internal experience is frequently what keeps people stuck.

Avoid every situation that provokes anxiety and the anxiety wins by default. Drink to make a feeling go away and the feeling returns with interest. ACT redirects the energy from fighting the internal experience to building the life.

What the work involves

Defusion

Learning to see a thought as a thought rather than as a fact — noticing "I am having the thought that I will fail" instead of simply believing it.

Acceptance

Allowing a feeling to be present without spending everything you have on suppressing it. Not resignation, and not approval — just an end to the struggle that was consuming the resources.

Values

Getting specific about what actually matters to you, as distinct from what you think should matter or what would impress someone. This is the part people often find unexpectedly difficult.

Committed action

Doing the thing that moves toward the value, with the anxiety or the grief still in the car. Not waiting until you feel ready, because that wait can be indefinite.

What we use it for

Anxiety, particularly where avoidance has narrowed someone's life
Chronic depression that has not responded to symptom-elimination approaches
Substance use, where using functions as escape from an internal state
Trauma, alongside trauma-focused work

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Where this fits in our programs

Therapy at Golden Coast Rehab is delivered inside a program rather than as a standalone service. That means our specialty mental health partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs, provided under our County of San Diego contract, and our substance use intensive outpatient and outpatient programs under DHCS certification 370254AP.

Which modalities you work with is decided with your clinician based on what you are dealing with, not assigned by a template.

Coverage and cost

If you have Medi-Cal in San Diego County — any of the four managed care plans — treatment here can be covered at no cost to you. See how Medi-Cal works here.

Call (858) 925-8589, answered 24 hours a day. The San Diego County Access and Crisis Line is available around the clock at 1-888-724-7240.

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Not sure this is the right fit?

Levels of care step up and down around your progress — start where you are, and we'll adjust together.

Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)

Our most structured outpatient level of care, offered as a specialty mental health service.

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Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

Evidence-based group and individual therapy with the flexibility to keep working, studying, and living at home.

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Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)

FDA-approved medication for opioid and alcohol use disorder, managed by our medical team.

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Dual Diagnosis Treatment

Integrated care for substance use and co-occurring mental health conditions — treated together, not separately.

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Admissions Process

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Serving members of every San Diego Medi-Cal plan

Credentialed through Optum, administrator of behavioral health services for the County of San Diego.

Optum, a UnitedHealth Group companyAdministrative Services Organization for County of San Diego behavioral health — we are credentialed with Optum.

County of San Diego Behavioral Health ServicesContracted provider of Specialty Mental Health Services under County Contract 575462.

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Admissions

Our Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Admission Process

Starting treatment at Golden Coast Rehab is simple. Here's exactly what happens from your first call.

Call or Reach Out

Speak with a caring admissions specialist — no pressure, completely confidential.

Verify Your Coverage

We confirm what your plan covers — Medi-Cal welcome — usually the same day.

Phone Assessment

A 10–15 minute ASAM-based assessment helps us understand your history and recommend the right level of care.

Clinical Review & Intake

Our team reviews your assessment, builds an individualized plan, and schedules your start date.

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Questions, Answered

FAQs About Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Does acceptance mean giving up on feeling better?

No. People generally do feel better in ACT — it just is not the target being aimed at directly. The paradox is that dropping the fight with the feeling usually reduces it more than fighting did.

How is ACT different from CBT?

CBT tends to examine whether a thought is accurate and change it. ACT changes your relationship to the thought instead, without needing to argue with its content. Both are useful and we use both.

Is this the same as mindfulness?

Mindfulness is one component. ACT adds values clarification and committed action, which is what keeps it from becoming a purely internal practice.

Who does ACT suit best?

Often people who have done CBT and found that disputing thoughts did not stick, and people whose main problem is avoidance rather than the intensity of the feeling itself.

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Structure, support, and a team that knows your name — starting this week.

Five minutes. One real person on the other end — day or night. No pressure, no obligation, just honest answers about what comes next.

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Every day, 8am – 8pm · Free & confidential · HIPAA & 42 CFR Part 2 protected