Mindfulness-based Therapy

I am a certified mindfulness educator through Mindful Schools and have taught mindfulness to a wide variety of folks. From working with youth in juvenile hall to instructing high school faculty members (teaching the teachers) to facilitating groups in a wellness center for our aging population, I have helped people from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds learn and embrace the benefits of living their life more mindfully.

I work with my clients to help them better live in the moment and stay connected with their present experience as a way to reduce worry about the future and past and get the most enjoyment out of each day.

Utilizing guided imagery, visualization, and relaxation techniques can assist in reducing the symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Mindfulness techniques are something I use on a daily basis with my clients. Mindfulness includes so many ideas and concepts, from yoga to grounding. These techniques are so helpful in staying in the here and now, which is so helpful when anxiety thoughts are trying to convince us to think about a "what if" thought in the future.

Mindfulness and being present in todays world is incredibly difficult. Battling feelings of low self esteem, anxiety, burnout and so many other unwanted feelings can be eased by using mindfulness. It takes practice and a person centered approach to fit this into your life as it is now. This is an effective treatment for many and often individuals say this offers them reprieve from their unwanted symptoms within a few weeks.

Mindfulness-Based Therapy is at the hear of my practice, offering clients a transformative approach to mental well-being. With extensive training and experience in mindfulness techniques, I guide individuals in cultivating present-moment awareness and non-judgmental acceptance. This approach helps clients manage stress, anxiety, and depression by fostering self-awareness and enhancing emotional resilience. Together, we explore mindfulness practices tailored to your needs, empowering you to live.

Mindfulness-based therapy can be a highly effective form of treatment to increase your overall awareness of both the cognitive and physiological components of your body. Through various breathing and distressing exercises, the goal is to mitigate your overall anxiety and stress while increasing your overall awareness of your emotions and senses.

I have a personal practice of nearly 15 years, and have been implementing it into my work for a decade. I have completed MBSR and am currently completing the MBSR teacher training track. I have also completed training to teach mindfulness through Mindful Schools.

My favorite mindfulness-based therapy is Compassion Focused Therapy. I also integrate an approach called Mindful Self Compassion. In my experience, self compassion is an important driver of positive outcomes. It's an essential element of self satisfaction. When we lack self compassion, we tend to judge ourselves harshly and feel isolated, different, or inferior. Research shows that low self compassion is common across many diagnoses and issues.

Practicing mindfulness to get a better understanding of an authentic bodily answer

One can learn about what are the triggers from the past that keeps hovering his/her life right now, but cannot do anything to change what happened. One cannot know exactly what the future holds. What one can do is to be connected to the right-here - right-now - which are the principles of mindfulness. Mindfulness helps people to be grounded, and be gentle to themselves and others. Mindfulness is used in conjunction with the integrative psychodynamic approach.

I use mindfulness and meditation tools.

I have been meditating for over 20 years now. Meditation changed my life. My entire education from day one of my undergraduate studies, including a 3 months stay in a Buddhist monastery, has been focused on understanding how meditation is used to heal. Mindfulness, is just part of this ancient contemplative practice that has been developed for thousands of years. I use mindfulness and self-compassion as a basis for learning how to get our needs met, whatever they may be.

This may be a hot take, but my aim is never to eliminate anxiety because it’s a necessary emotion. It just sucks when it inhibits us from doing the stuff we value - like have you ever not been able to focus on time spent with a friend or partner because you were too preoccupied? Let’s get you back to the present moment. In therapy, we’ll learn how to sit with our thoughts. To notice them nonjudgmentally and resist the urge to "fix."

The foundation of my practice is grounded in building insight and a sense of empowerment through self-awareness and mindfulness. Meditation and relaxation techniques are integrated into regular interventions. Identifying and exploring the individual's window of tolerance by staying present in the moment and oneself.

In mindfulness therapy, I'll help you learn to watch your thoughts and feelings without feeling the need to judge or change them. Together, we'll work on finding inner peace, clarity, and kindness by focusing on the present moment and accepting experiences without getting too caught up in them. Mindfulness therapy is a friendly way to take care of your mental health, helping you become more aware of yourself, manage your emotions better, and be kinder to yourself and others.

Embark on a journey of self-discovery through mindfulness, guided by my certification in this transformative practice. Together, we cultivate present moment awareness, promoting emotional balance and resilience. Mindfulness becomes a powerful tool as you navigate life's complexities with clarity, purpose, and a greater sense of well-being.

There are a number of mindfulness-based therapies. I utilize Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which employs mindfulness as a way to experiment with attention. We can become overly preoccupied with the future, the past, or even a specific aspect of the present (e.g., pain, hurt, fear, anger), such that we are no longer focused on what we value. In ACT we practice noticing when we have been pulled away, and (if we choose) returning to what matters.

Bringing more awareness and acceptance to what we are feeling can create more space between emotional triggers and our reactions. MIndfulness can help us feel more grounded and give us more choice over our automatic responses.