Mindfulness-based Therapy

My counseling style integrates various therapeutic strategies that adapt to my client's individual and unique needs

With over three years of training in spiritual psychology, I integrate mindfulness-based approaches to foster deep self-awareness and healing. By combining mindfulness with a holistic view of the mind, body, and spirit, I guide clients in staying present, processing emotions, and cultivating self-compassion. My approach helps clients reconnect with their true selves, heal past wounds, and develop a more balanced, empowered relationship with their thoughts and emotions.

I have engaged in learning around many different aspects of mindfulness, including an experiential training of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction for therapeutic providers. I believe in the importance of understanding the connection between our minds and our bodies, and in the ongoing practice of learning how to exist in the present moment, while treating ourselves with compassion and radical acceptance.

Mindfulness is being able to reduce the overwhelming emotions and thoughts of the past, and bring yourself to be present in the important facets of life. Mindfulness is very effective in therapy for people with a history of trauma, deep anxiety, and long periods of depression. More than teaching mindfulness as a tool, I incorporate guided meditation during your weekly sessions. Therapy will teach you to improve your overall mental health, but should also be self-care. It will be healing.

I incorporate mindfulness techniques to help clients stay present, reduce stress, and cultivate greater self-awareness and emotional regulation.

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.

After years in the trauma field, I found the science of well-being. Like trauma, flourishing doesn’t come through significant events. It’s shaped through tiny profound changes in our embodied sensing of information from moment to moment. I became a positive psychology practitioner & mindfulness teacher to help us both pay attention to those moments & consistently rewire ourselves for well-being. I will diagnose PTSD when needed. I’m just as likely to prescribe birth meditations or dance parties

As a yoga and mindfulness instructor, I have an immense amount of experience and tools to share with clients. I offer a wide range of proven grounding, integrating and mindfulness practices to help clients manage anxiety, process emotions, and connect with their patners. I have training in and use a somatic (body-based) approach when appropriate, helping clients explore how various bodily sensations are linked to their emotional experience.

I have extensive training in mindfulness therapy, which integrates mindfulness practices with therapeutic techniques to help clients stay present, manage stress, and cultivate self-awareness. Through mindfulness, clients learn to observe their thoughts and emotions without judgment, reducing anxiety, improving emotional regulation, and enhancing overall well-being. This practice is particularly beneficial for those dealing with trauma, anxiety, depression, life transitions, and fostering peace.

Mindfulness plays a major role in my practice, as I believe it along with other positive psychology practices, like gratitude, can lead to deeper fulfillment. Through graduate and additional trainings, I have learned to effectively incorporate mindfulness with other modalities.

As a yoga and mindfulness instructor, I have an immense amount of experience and tools to share with clients. I offer a wide range of grounding, integrating and mindfulness practices to help clients manage anxiety, process emotions, and connect with their loved ones. Based on your needs and desires, sessions may include meditation, breathing exercises, guided relaxation techniques, body scans, yoga nidra, and other evidenced-based mindfulness practices.

I incorporate mindfulness based therapy techniques with each of my clients and understand and have first-hand experienced of the importance of how mindfulness practices aid in alleviating and managing a wide variety of symptoms. Mindfulness does not have to mean sitting quietly for an amount of time. Rather, I start off educating people how every day activities can be done mindfully.

Claudia identifies as a Buddhist and a Catholic and completed The New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care - Foundations Program, where she offered spiritual care and counsel for the sick, dying and their families. Her approach is spiritually Informed, Buddhist Informed and makes use of Mindfulness-Based practices.

I believe in being mindful of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is important to work through and develop skills to understand how thinking of things in a certain way can impact our moods and behaviors.

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) utilizes the cognitive skill of mindfulness, which is a clear, objective awareness of an experience. Being aware, attentive, and observant to all experiences and emotions in the present moment is the foundation to this therapy. This therapy can lead patients to improved emotional regulation and an ability to be less self-judgmental and more self-compassionate.

Nova Mental Health Services creates a unique treatment plan for our clients but use these three treatments often. We use mindfulness often in treatment as we believe in the importance of intention and using body signals to help us connect to our feelings.

I use mindfulness-based therapy to help clients get in touch with their emotions.

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.

Just paying attention is such a simple but powerful act. When we're able to be present and listen--I mean *really* listen--the world opens like a flower. And what about you? Yes, what if you were to direct that same attention to your own thoughts and feelings, your behaviors and relationships and decisions and everything else? Things start to become clearer, confusion slowly recedes, and suddenly you know who you are and what you want. But it does take practice!