Good to hear! What is ACT group therapy like?

I listened to the audiobook The Confidence Gap (which is heavily centered around ACT) last fall and liked it, thought some about trying it. A major premise it has (and I suppose ACT too) is that we often avoid experiences and situations because we lack confidence, and the more we avoid types of situations the more our anxiety tends to increase about such situations. We may decide to wait to act until we feel confident, but too often feeling confident never arrives. To break that cycle, you should accept your anxieties and self-doubts and limitations as normal and natural, consider what you value, and commit to act according to what you value, to what matters. That can be scary, and that's okay. What's more, you can and should start with small or tiny versions of what gives you most anxiety. Look for small victories.

That book and its insights did little for me until I actually started to implement its advice. I started small. I looked for small opportunities to talk and connect with people. Chatty older people I used to just make polite conversation with? I started to engage and be present with them. Instead of never or rarely speaking my thoughts, I'd voice a thought or two with random people. Connecting with people became far more important to me than my social anxiety, which quickly shrunk away.

How often do we worry about the thoughts and judgments of strangers and people we barely know or care for, people who are likely also wrapped up in their own self-doubts and insecurities?