Steven C. Hayes, PhD

I’ve just spent a few days at a Harvard conference called Evolving AI, organized by my friend and colleague David Sloan Wilson and his team at Prosocial World, along with Peter Fenton of Benchmark.

Think of the last time you were handed a problem with no instruction manual.

I’m turning 78 today as I write this.

In December of 2000, the West Ham United was playing Everton in a Premier League soccer match when one of those small moments happened that still has the power to teach.

A few weeks ago I was standing in a hotel ballroom with about two hundred people who want to become better therapists.

The yearning to belong arguably begins at birth for humans, but how can we all make progress on that need?

Every summer, parents watch a child drive off to college and whisper some version of the same prayer.

There is a groundbreaking finding in an exciting new meta-analysis on ACT and depression that I think deserves more attention than it will probably get.

A few months ago, I got a message from a therapist in Vancouver.

When I read recently that June Lockhart had died, well into her nineties, an unexpected wince ran through me.

There’s a quiet crisis in how we think about psychotherapy.

There’s a common misunderstanding about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): that pursuing a positive mood is somehow a bad idea.