Brandon Gimbel and Courtney Wells explore how relationship conflict often centers on trying to change the other person, rather than shifting one’s own relationship to internal experience.

Brandon Gimbel and Courtney Wells examine how ACT provides a values-based framework that can hold and integrate other trauma treatments like EMDR.

Brandon Gimbel and Courtney Wells discuss why acceptance can feel like surrender, especially for trauma survivors whose coping strategies once ensured survival.

Brandon Gimbel and Courtney Wells discuss how naming internal experiences creates psychological distance, reduces threat, and restores a sense of agency.

Brandon Gimbel and Courtney Wells explore how trauma is best understood by its lasting impact rather than by the severity or category of the event itself.