Dr. Cameron Sepah: Part II - ACT: A Radical Approach to Anxiety -

Hi, my name is Stuart Alsop, and this is my podcast, Crazy Wisdom. Today we have a special interview, one with Dr. Cameron Seppa, who is a doctor at UCSF who specializes in psychology, particularly in something called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, act. So in our first episode, which you can find on itunes by searching for Crazy Wisdom and looking for. The interview with Dr. Cameron Seppa was about the science behind. Behind what stress is and what it does to our bodies and minds. Today in this episode, we're going to talk about something called ACT Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. It's a new form of therapy, a new approach that Dr. Cameron Seppe has been both using clinically and studying at ucsf. And he's had a lot of experience in its contemporary called cbt. And what ACT does. I'll let him explain it more, but it's a behavioral treatment that includes exposures, and the act has a different philosophy behind it besides CBT. But I'll let Dr. Cameron Seppa talk more about that. I really hope that you enjoy this episode. Please let me know what you think, and if you do enjoy it, please find us on itunes and give us a review and hit the subscribe button. Thanks. Have a great day.

I want to get into the modality that you're using, ACT and also cbt, because you've had experience delivering both, correct?

Right. Yeah. So I trained the psychiatry residents. I've trained them in both. And it kind of goes back also to your question about symptom reduction. So, by the way, both are highly effective therapies. In fact, I was involved with two clinical trials that you see, like comparing the two for anxiety disorders. They both seem to work equally as well. So I won't tout one as being better than the other. It's not. You know, the evidence supports sort of both of them, and at the heart of them, they're both kind of behavioral therapies. And that's probably the effective component of why they both …