An integrative clinical framework built on three foundations, unified by one principle: truth.
TCAT draws on three frameworks, not as a patchwork but as a unified architecture. Each foundation contributes a distinct lens. Together they form one coherent way of working.
Thoughts, emotions, and behavior are interconnected. Examining and changing distorted cognition changes how we feel and what we do. CBT brings TCAT's empirical spine.
Beliefs are tested against reason and reality — not accepted because they are familiar. Unconditional self-acceptance anchors the work, separating worth from performance.
People live by agreements — often inherited, often unexamined. Those agreements can be surfaced, questioned, and consciously re-chosen. This is where TCAT begins.
TCAT maps every client's governing agreements across three territories: Internal (the agreements a person holds about themselves), Relational (agreements about others and connection), and Historical (agreements formed by origin — family, culture, trauma).
Agreement work in all three territories is necessary for lasting change. Addressing only one is why so many well-intentioned treatments plateau.
A structured clinical tool — and a daily client practice — for moving from a painful agreement to what is functionally true.
Surface and name the belief that is operating.
Test it against evidence, reason, and present reality.
Locate the adaptive origin — without contempt for the self who formed it.
Choose and install a truth-congruent agreement to live from.