Mindfulness-based Therapy

MBSR and Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention

I have a 200 hr yoga certification and a 2 year meditation teacher certificate. I believe that mindfulness and meditation are the scrimmage grounds for the things we are working on in therapy. With mindfulness-based therapy, you will learn how to adopt a grounded, centered approach to life so that you can meet life with equanimity and grace. We practice pausing so that you can respond intentionally instead of react.

Mindfulness and learning to observe our thoughts and feelings without judgement can lead to the alleviation of many of our mental health concerns.

Mindfulness therapy helps to connect us to our thoughts, feelings, and sensations that my go unnoticed. Becoming an observer of yourself and your internal world can help to provide you with information on how to better respond to your body's subtle cues. I hope to help people grow a deeper connection to their bodies and internal world through breath, movement and introspection.

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.

Being mindful means being aware of and noticing your thoughts and feelings, as well as what’s going on with others without getting caught in automatic responses such as anxious reactivity or judgment. Mindfulness is paying attention on purpose in the present moment without judgment. In Mindfulness therapy, I'll help you focus on learning to be more aware and reducing automatic reactions. With increased awareness, you can choose different responses to avoid the same old, problematic reaction.

Mindful-Based Therapy helps you to slow your thoughts so to build awareness of the present moment. These therapies can help reduce emotional and physical suffering through being present in the here and now, strengthening your sense of self, and creating purpose driven momentum.

After years trying to uncover & undo the effects of trauma, I turned to the science of well-being. I quickly learned that like trauma, flourishing need not occur through profound significant events, but through the tiniest equally profound changes in how a body takes in information. I became a positive psychology practitioner & mindfulness & meditation teacher to help you and I rewire for flourishing. I move fluidly between diagnosing trauma & prescribing birth meditations or a dance party.

I make mindfulness very approachable as I believe mindfulness can be delivered by a variety of forms, such as mindful walking or mindful movement, so you don’t have to sit on the cushion all day to practice mindfulness. By practicing mindfulness, you will be able to develop a better understanding to self and other people, increase ability to accepting circumstances without judgments, and bring healing into your life.

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.

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 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.

We can be really mean to ourselves! Cultivating a nonjudgmental, self-compassionate approach to your thoughts and experiences helps to shift this energy towards healing.

I work with clients who have used various forms of dissociation to control their overwhelming experience. When the body has been a source of pain – physical and/or emotional – we retreat into one escape and another. Mindfulness is a set of tools for reconnecting with our present experience and gaining vital information about what it is to be alive and uniquely ourselves. And as we learn to tune in to our beingness in all its messiness, we begin to get in touch with joy and meaning and purpose.

Mindfulness-based therapy is designed for people who suffer from repeated depression or chronic unhappiness. It combines the ideas of being here now with meditative practices and attitudes based on the cultivation of mindfulness. Recent research has shown that people who have been clinically depressed three or more times find that learning mindfulness-based skills help considerably reduce their chances of depression returning.

I integrate mindfulness into therapy to help clients cultivate present-moment awareness and reduce stress. By teaching mindfulness practices, I empower clients to observe their thoughts and emotions without judgment, fostering greater emotional regulation, clarity, and peace in their daily lives.

Mindfulness is at the core of every client session in my practice. Every therapeutic intervention will pull from something mindfulness based to increase insight, decrease reactivity, and allow for acceptance.

Anxiety, trauma, attachment struggles, and so many other issues result in separation within ourselves. Neuroscience-informed therapy counseling helps the client understand the connections between the brain, the body, and the spirit. Both Mindfulness and NIPT are counseling techniques that I am trained in that will help the person I work with reconnect these fundamental connections within as we learn how to rebuild, attach and heal.

Through my personal lifetime practice of mindfulness, I incorporate these principles in my work with the majority of clients. This includes compassion focused work, developing more presence, using breathwork (pranayama) and yoga therapy, and combining mindfulness to support psychedelic preparation and integration.