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Revised and Expanded Edition · 12/09/2026

Building a Valued Life: Towards What Matters, even in the Darkest Times

Practical psychotherapy sessions to choose with your clinician, with room to reflect, practise and take a next step towards what matters to you.

Developed by Dr Eric Hadinata, Addiction Medicine Specialist, for use in clinician-guided care during treatment with Dr Hadinata.

The Revised and Expanded Edition contains 69 sessions: 12 core sessions and expanded optional pathways. Use the sessions that fit your current needs and agreed care plan; the full book is not a list to complete from beginning to end.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) provides the organising direction throughout the 69 sessions: making room for experience and acting towards what matters. Selected DBT, MBT and RO-DBT methods support that direction, with expanded substance-use work connecting acceptance, defusion, emotion regulation, a wider sense of self and values-led action.

The overview and contents are public. The complete participant resources and facilitator resources require their existing separate access details.

Approved coastal cover of Building a Valued Life, Participant Workbook, Revised and Expanded Edition
Participant Workbook · Revised and Expanded Edition · 335 pages

Finished books · PDF and editable formats

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Facilitator manual and combined edition

The 250-page facilitator manual contains the matching guidance. The 573-page combined edition brings facilitator guidance and participant material together. Both are available as PDF and editable Word documents.

The existing facilitator access details are required.

The edition is dated 12/09/2026; optional-topic names were updated on 11/09/2026. These downloads are the current publication. The separate modular psychotherapy library has its own contents and access details.

Public contents · 69 sessions

Find the work that fits now

Core sessions introduce values, attention, emotions, acceptance, relationships and putting skills into practice. Optional sessions extend the work into selected topics and DBT, MBT and RO-DBT pathways. Discuss selection and pacing with your clinician.

Core sessions

  1. Session 1: Welcome and Values Discovery
  2. Session 2: Creative Hopelessness and Willingness
  3. Session 3: Committed Action and Goal-Setting
  4. Session 4: Mindfulness Foundations
  5. Session 5: Understanding and Identifying Emotions
  6. Session 6: Distress Tolerance
  7. Session 7: Emotion Regulation Basics
  8. Session 8: Acceptance and Radical Acceptance
  9. Session 9: Defusion
  10. Session 10: Self-as-Context
  11. Session 11: Interpersonal Effectiveness
  12. Session 12: Putting It All Together

Expanded optional pathways

These session titles follow the order in the approved book. They are options to select, not a prescribed sequence for every participant.

  1. Substance Use 1: Understanding Addiction and the Brain
  2. Substance Use 2: Craving Management
  3. Substance Use 3: Relapse Prevention and Recovery Planning
  4. Substance Use 4: My Reasons for Change
  5. Substance Use 5: Changing the Pattern Around Use
  6. Substance Use 6: Treatment, Safety and Staying Connected
  7. Shame and Guilt in Recovery
  8. Building a Recovery Support Network
  9. Lifestyle Balance and Wellness
  10. Sleep 1: Understanding My Sleep
  11. Sleep 2: Rebuilding Sleep Rhythm
  12. Sleep 3: Settling Arousal and Loosening Sleep Rules
  13. Sleep 4: Keeping Sleep Workable
  14. Understanding Trauma and Its Impact
  15. Trauma and the Body
  16. Safety Planning and Crisis Response
  17. Assertiveness and Conflict Resolution
  18. Healthy Boundaries (Advanced)
  19. Values in Relationships
  20. Managing Difficult Emotions (Advanced)
  21. Mindfulness (Advanced)
  22. Behavioural Addictions
  23. Grief and Loss
  24. Anger
  25. Self-Compassion (Advanced)
  26. Eating Disorders 1: Understanding the Pattern and My Care Plan
  27. Eating Disorders 2: Rules, Attention and Flexible Choices
  28. Eating Disorders 3: Emotions, Urges and Supported Coping
  29. Eating Disorders 4: Recovery Direction and Keeping Change Going
  30. Body Dysmorphic Disorder 1: Understanding the BDD Cycle
  31. Body Dysmorphic Disorder 2: Widening Attention and Testing Interpretations
  32. Body Dysmorphic Disorder 3: Clinician-Supported Behavioural Experiments
  33. Body Dysmorphic Disorder 4: Living Beyond Appearance and Maintaining Gains
  34. Gender and Care 1: Understanding What Matters Now
  35. Gender and Care 2: Hearing My Own Signal
  36. Gender and Care 3: Safety, Disclosure, Boundaries and Support
  37. Gender and Care 4: Informed Decisions and Ongoing Wellbeing
  38. DBT 1: Two Things Can Be True: A Dialectical Approach to Change
  39. DBT 2: Wise Mind at the Choice Point
  40. DBT 3: What Kind of Hard Moment Is This?
  41. DBT 4: Check the Facts and Solve the Problem
  42. DBT 5: Validation Without Losing Self-Respect
  43. DBT 6: From Pattern to Practice
  44. MBT 1: Keeping Minds in Mind
  45. MBT 2: Attachment and Arousal
  46. MBT 3: Holding Self and Other in Mind
  47. MBT 4: When Self-Worth Feels Under Threat
  48. MBT 5: Checking Understanding in Relationships
  49. MBT 6: Rupture, Repair and Moving Forward
  50. RO-DBT 1: When Control Costs Too Much
  51. RO-DBT 2: Openness and Self-Enquiry
  52. RO-DBT 3: Showing What You Mean
  53. RO-DBT 4: Learning from Feedback Without Losing Yourself
  54. RO-DBT 5: Flexibility, Standards and Room to Play
  55. RO-DBT 6: Envy, Resentment and What Matters Underneath
  56. RO-DBT 7: Closeness, Trust and Repair
  57. RO-DBT 8: A More Flexible Life: Review and Continuing Practice

The complete exercises, guidance and writing pages are in the protected books, not on this public contents page.