Mindfulness-based Therapy

Mindfulness-based therapy integrates meditation practices with modern psychology. It teaches clients to cultivate present-moment awareness, observing thoughts and feelings without judgment. This approach helps manage stress, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain by reducing reactivity and enhancing emotional regulation. By fostering acceptance and curiosity, it empowers clients to respond to challenges with greater clarity and compassion, promoting overall well-being and resilience.

Listening to your inner voice, buried beneath anxieties, fears, and insecurities, takes lots of practice. Whether through writing or creating art, spending time with yourself changes the relationship you hold with your body and your mind. Together, we will create space for acceptance of where you are in your journey and what you need moving forward. We will use this space to explore body neutrality, self-compassion, and what you value in your career and relationships.

I've taken classes in Mindfulness and Neurobiology at UCLA's mindfulness research center and have been practicing mindfulness and vedic meditation for 20 years. I find it integral to my own health and helpful towards skill development with cognitive approaches.

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.

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.

Mindfulness-based is designed for people who suffer from repeated bouts of depression or chronic unhappiness. It combines the ideas of cognitive therapy 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 in their life find that learning mindfulness-based skills help to considerably reduce their chances of depression returning.

Mindfulness based neuropsychological interventions are used to augment trauma therapy in my therapeutic approach.

From graduate school to the present, my training and work is focused on making sure that you are able to respond well in the "here-and-now". Mindfulness therapy is all about that. It's easy to think that you have to be an experienced meditator to be "mindful". This is not true! In my therapy, I teach you how to get the benefits of mindfulness in your everyday life, in practical, usable ways, so that you have the tools whenever you need them.

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-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.

Mindfulness-based exercises and tools help us to return to our bodies and to the present. When we feel anxious, overwhelmed, scared, flooded, triggered, or panicked, we lose track of both. Learning how to bring our awareness back to the here and now, and into our physical bodies can help us feel more grounded and secure.

Mindfulness-based therapy can help you stay present and grounded, especially during stressful or overwhelming moments. By tuning into your thoughts, feelings, and body, it allows you to respond to challenges with more clarity and less reactivity, fostering a deeper sense of calm and emotional balance.

My thesis/Integrative Seminar focused on Mindfulness Based Therapy within Trauma-Informed Care. Mindfulness approaches do not have to equate to "woo" - there are many ways to harness the power of presence to reach your personal goals.

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy, or MBCT, is designed for people who suffer repeated bouts of anxiety, chronic stress, or unhappiness. It combines the ideas of cognitive therapy with meditative practices and attitudes based on the cultivation of mindfulness. Recent research has shown that people who engage in mindfulness practices on a regular basis have a change in brain process (based on MRI results) in as little as 6 weeks.

I have been utilizing mindfulness meditation since 2008, and have attended workshops on mindfulness as well as mindful eating specifically. I think it is important to start from the beginning and acquire a mindfulness practice before applying mindfulness skills to eating. I help clients make mindfulness meditation work for them, for their unique schedule, unique thinking patterns, and eventually unique eating habits. Mindfulness is about awareness, openness, curiosity, not about doing it “right”

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

Mindfulness-based therapy integrates mindfulness practices with traditional therapeutic techniques. It teaches you to pay attention to the present moment without judgment, observing thoughts and feelings as they arise. This helps reduce reactivity to difficult emotions and thoughts, fostering greater emotional regulation. By cultivating awareness, you learn to step back from habitual patterns and respond with more intention. The aim is to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression.

Being in the moment can mean the difference between being anxious and feeling calm. Grounding techniques are taught to help feel more at ease.

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