BOOKS BY
Dr. Aprilia West
Dr. West has authored several books and publications related to psychology, behavior change and decision-making most notably: What You Feel Is Not All There Is (2021), ACT for Your Best Life (2023), and she is a coauthor of Acceptance and Commitment Coaching in the Workplace in Positive Psychology in the Workplace (2021) and the clinician’s guide to Emotion Efficacy Therapy (2016).
What You Feel Is Not All There Is
Free your choices and your life from the default world of the emotional matrix
Life is full of moments of choice—up to 35,000 each day— all of which shape your existence. However, these moments are often influenced by automatic hardwired emotional responses that sometimes take you places you don’t actually want to go. You may not realize your full potential because you're operating in an "emotional default world" that focuses more on survival than thriving.
The good news is that you can unplug from the emotional matrix and become more skillful with your emotions, enabling you to make choices that truly matter. Grounded in evidence-based research and positive psychology, What You Feel Is Not All There Is offers a powerful self-help guide to help you navigate your emotions and choices more effectively.
ACT for Your Best Life
54 Simple and Powerful Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Practices for Navigating Stress, Anxiety & Burnout
Created by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) trainer Dr. Aprilia West, the ACT for Your Best Life card deck provides 54 powerful prompts and practices designed to help you navigate life's challenges with flexibility and resilience.
This deck guides you in anchoring yourself in the present moment, sitting with uncomfortable emotions, unhooking from unhelpful thoughts, gaining perspective as an observer, clarifying what truly matters in pivotal moments, and consistently showing up as your best self in any situation.
Emotion Efficacy Therapy
A Brief, Exposure-Based Treatment for Emotion Regulation Integrating ACT and DBT
Emotion efficacy therapy (EET) is a treatment for clients struggling iwth a range of emotion-based challenges, including depression, anxiety, unprocessed trauma, mood disorders and substance abuse.
EET integrates elements from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) into an exposure-based protocol, targeting experiential avoidance and distress intolerance to help people develop more powerful behavioral responses to stress, challenge and pain.
This step-by-step manual offers an eight-week program to help clients develop a healthier relationship with their emotions, practice values-based actions, and prevent intense emotions from hindering their lives.
Positive Psychology Coaching in the Workplace
This text explores how positive psychology coaching can enhance workplace thriving, integrating perspectives from organizational psychology, coaching psychology, and related fields. It covers topics such as resilience, well-being, leadership, psychological flexibility, ethical practices, and the convergence of clinical interventions with workplace strategies.
The chapters offer an international perspective, combining insights from neuroscience, education, and philosophy, making it a valuable resource for academics, professionals, and students in fields like positive psychology, organizational psychology, coaching, and human resource management. Written in a scholarly yet accessible style, it appeals to a broad audience interested in fostering thriving workplaces.
About Dr. Aprilia West
Dr. Aprilia West is a psychologist, executive coach, trainer, author, advocacy campaign strategist, and digital health consultant. She has 20+ years of experience working with founders, leaders, creatives, teams, and organizations spanning U.S. Congress, tech, entertainment, Fortune 500 companies, and nonprofit advocacy campaigns.
Her extensive experience as a psychologist, executive coach, trainer, author, advocacy campaign strategist, and digital health consultant give her a niche understanding of human behavior and how to facilitate wellbeing, peak performance, and prosocial behavior change.
Dr. West's interest in human behavior and choice-making led her to study emotional intelligence, psychological flexibility, resilience and positive psychology. She went on to develop the construct of emotion efficacy— the ability and belief your ability to harness emotional experience, shift your mindset and take action aligned with your values. She explains, “emotion efficacy is what you’d get if emotional intelligence, psychological flexibility and resilience had a love child.”Dr. West designed the Emotion Efficacy Therapy protocol as part of her doctoral studies, as well as the related assessment, the Emotion Efficacy Scale-2 (EES2). She has since developed and expanded the emotion efficacy tools and trainings, including authoring the self-help book, What You Feel Is Not All There Is. She is also co-author of the clinician's guide to Emotion Efficacy Therapy.
Dr. West is known internationally as an expert in the application of behavioral science and conducts professional trainings for coaches and clinicians around the world.