Mindfulness-based Therapy

Mindfulness-based therapy (MBT) helps clients get away from reacting and thinking about life events in a different way. MBT Instead of automatically reacting to life's challenges, clients learn to accept and observe what is happening in life.

I incorporate mindfulness as a treatment approach to help clients become more aware of their thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations without judgment. By practicing mindfulness, clients learn to stay present, reduce reactivity, and develop a sense of calm and balance. This approach helps them manage stress, anxiety, and other emotional challenges, allowing them to respond more effectively to difficult situations with increased clarity and self-compassion.

Mindfulness is basically becoming more aware of your body, your feelings, and your coping mechanisms. Using mindfulness techniques, I can help you become more aware of what's going on inside of you during difficult experiences of anxiousness or depression and help create more helpful ways to cope with these moments and establish more realistic viewpoints of relating you your situation.

Mindfulness-based therapy was strongly emphasized in my internship at Nystrom & Associates, and I have since built my mindfulness practice with many books and workshops. Mindfulness can teach us not only to value and nurture the quiet spaces between our thoughts, but a peaceful way of stepping back and witnessing turbulent thoughts, feelings, and experiences with compassion, curiosity, and nonjudgmental acceptance.

I am certified in Inner Resources for Stress a mindfulness based modality to support clients in being more in touch with their emotions, reduce avoidance, and improve sleep and well-being.

Mindfulness - our innate capacity to be non-judgementally present - is especially well suited for harnessing run-away fight-flight-freeze reaction at the core of anxiety and stress. "Sounds great, but I tried meditating and it doesn't work!" you're thinking. Mindfulness is not just meditation, but about equipping and empowering yourself to not only manage life's challenges, but also discover a life based on personal values, peace, and joy!

Mindfulness doesn't mean sitting in silence or chanting on a cushion. It's about being fully present in each moment, feeling the movement and experiences along the way. We become more aware of our behaviors and can make choices that benefit us, rather than reacting impulsively out of emotion. Mindfulness can help us foster a deeper connection with our emotions and behaviors. It helps us sit with our feelings rather than trying to "fix" them. This nonjudgmental presence is key to understanding.

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 partners. I have training in somatic psychotherapy and use a body-based approach when appropriate, helping clients explore how various bodily sensations are linked to their emotional experience.

Mindfulness is a constant practice of noticing where your mind goes and gently, compassionately, learning to direct your thoughts. Research shows that it helps with anxiety and depression, along with increasing overall happiness.

I have over two decades working with mindful awareness as a path to healing. Mindful presence is at the core of all therapy as it provides the base of awareness through which all healing modalities flow and work; if we cannot be present we cannot be aware, engage, learn or grow. As such mindfulness gives instant relief from anxiety, other mental health symptoms and holds great potential. My expertise is based on my own commitment and experience exploring this unique path of inner clarity.

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.

Many issues begin with a disconnection between mind and body. I am experienced in using mindfulness, yoga and somatic approaches to support clients to feel whole again. This approach is particularly effective with trauma, addiction and body image or eating issues.

Mindfulness has become a commonly used term that in some ways has become watered-down due to overly broad use. From my point of view, Mindfulness is our effort to turn our attention & awareness to the present moment in an intentional way. This includes mindfulness of what our thoughts & mind are doing, but we can go further & use mindfulness to work with body, breath, movement & posture. Combining mindfulness of body & mind can create what we call an "embodied" way of being.

I have advanced training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and am a practitioner of vipassana meditation.

I believe mindfulness teaches us how to increase our tolerance and patience, be more present, and encourages us to be intentional about our choices, and these are all concepts I implement in the work I do.

I utilize Mindful Self-Compassion to support individuals in accepting current moment experience and extend kindness to themselves and others. This research based practice includes present moment awareness and can reduce avoidance and self-criticism leading to values based life.

With advanced training in mindfulness-based approaches and over 25 years of personal practice, I help clients cultivate present-moment awareness, a key to relieving anxiety, self-criticism, and healing from trauma. I guide clients in developing a non-judgmental awareness of their experiences, empowering them to respond with self-compassion. This approach is helpful for the LGBTQ+ community, but anyone seeking deeper self-understanding can benefit.

My approach to therapy and to life is deeply respectful of the mind/body connection. I am a long time mindfulness meditator and for many years have sought out ways of integrating this valuable resource into my work as a therapist. In session I direct you to “check-in” with your system in ways that will help inform our work. This involves focusing on the breath, thoughts, images, and noticing what’s happening with your body.