ACT Matrix Toolkit for Clients & Students

Everything you need to start using the ACT Matrix across ages and developmental levels—in one practical toolkit, now with a fillable PDF for telehealth.

The ACT Matrix Toolkit combines ready-to-use ACT Matrix templates, values worksheets, and guided questions by age to help clinicians move beyond simply filling in the four quadrants and have more meaningful, individualized conversations about what matters.

Designed with BCBAs, behavior analysts, therapists, counselors, educators, and other helping professionals in mind, these resources provide a consistent framework while adapting the language and visual supports to the learner.

What’s Included (17 pages)

This bundle combines 3 complete ACT resources in 1:

ACT Matrix Templates

6 printable templates, from illustrated examples to write-in versions, for exploring:

What matters and personal values

Uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, and sensations

Away moves—behaviors that pull us off course

Toward moves—actions that move us toward what matters

Includes illustrated versions for adults, teens, and kids, guided write-in prompts, and kid-friendly labels like “Run Away” and “Let’s Do It.”

NEW: Fillable PDF ACT Matrix for telehealth and virtual sessions

ACT Matrix Questions by Age

Prompts designed to help practitioners facilitate ACT Matrix conversations rather than simply asking learners to complete a worksheet. Question sets for 5 developmental levels:

School age 5–9

Tweens 10–12

Teens 13–17

Young adults 18–24

Adults 25+

Plus a “How to ACT” facilitation guide with practical tips for running Matrix conversations.

Values Identification Worksheets

3 “My Values” worksheets for kids, teens, and adults—from a picture-supported rating scale for young learners to a full values sort for adults—with space to identify top 5 values and reflect on how to live by them.

In Person or Online

The fillable ACT Matrix lets you and your client fill in the Matrix together on screen, no printer required. Type directly into each quadrant while screen sharing during a virtual session. Text wraps automatically and shrinks to fit as the box fills up, so there’s room for the whole conversation. Save the completed Matrix to revisit in future sessions or share with your client. Pair it with the guided questions to keep the conversation going without switching tools.

Why Bundle the Matrix + Values + Questions?

Knowing what to put in each quadrant isn’t always the hard part.

The challenge is often figuring out how to start the conversation, how to adapt it to the learner, and how to help someone identify values when “What matters to you?” is too abstract.

This toolkit gives you all three pieces:

VISUALIZE the pattern with the ACT Matrix.

IDENTIFY what matters with values worksheets.

EXPLORE each area with developmentally appropriate guided questions.

The result is a flexible set of tools you can use repeatedly with different learners, in person or via telehealth, rather than a single one-time worksheet.

Great For

Use these resources during ACT-informed ABA sessions, telehealth and virtual sessions, assessment and treatment planning, values exploration, parent/caregiver training, social-emotional learning, counseling, supervision, or conversations about behavioral flexibility and meaningful behavior change.

The materials can help practitioners explore patterns of toward and away behavior while keeping the learner’s own values and meaningful directions at the center of the conversation.

A Behavioral, Values-Driven Approach to ACT

These materials are designed to complement behavior-analytic practice while helping clinicians explore the role of language, private events, values, and contextual variables in behavior.

They are especially useful when working with learners whose rigid language, rules, negative self-statements, avoidance, or other verbally mediated behavior may interfere with accessing meaningful activities and outcomes.

File Details

Instant digital download: 16 printable pages (US Letter) plus 1 fillable PDF. No physical item ships. The fillable PDF works best in the free Adobe Acrobat Reader; some browser and built-in PDF viewers may not support auto-sizing text.

Same framework. Every age. Real conversations.

Guided by science. Driven by values.