Mindfulness Based Therapy

Mindfulness Therapies

Mindfulness-Based Therapy for Anxiety and Its Disorders

The Basics of Mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Therapy

Mindfulness meditation is an ancient tradition of reflection and contemplation that’s flowed into modern psychological thought and practice and enriched it. Originating with the teachings of 2,500-year-old Asian insight meditation, mindfulness is mental training to experience the present with an attitude of openness, freshness, and willingness to engage with the comings and goings of our thoughts, feelings, and sensations.

Today’s mindfulness-based therapies are invigorated by mindfulness meditation and interwoven with cutting-edge psychotherapies. They help us overcome anguish and stabilize clarify our minds at stressful times. Up-to-date research has found that mindfulness can cause the brain to significantly improve in its capacity to process our difficult emotions, activate more positive emotionality, and reduce anxious mental activity.

I’ve been offering mindfulness therapy in my practice since 2010. Meanwhile, I’ve published my work in professional journals and a chapter on mindfulness and irrational thinking in a cognitive therapy text.

Through mindfulness therapy, we focus on the Here and Now and learn to refine and enhance our present-moment experience. Mindfulness teaches us to experience mental events separately from taking action, instead of getting caught up in (unsuccessfully) attempting to shut down painful experiences or prolong pleasant experiences. When we’re grappling with strong, negative feelings, we often wind up get tangled up with complicated emotions and contending with disturbing, “sticky” thinking and catastrophic interpretations of what is happening. Renowned psychiatrist and meditation teacher Mark Epstein insightfully reminds us, “Trying to get rid of the thing that is bothering you only makes it stronger.”

In mindfulness therapy with me, you will learn to disentangle yourself from irrationality and emotional disturbance and connect with the reality of what’s taking place. This frees you from distortions and stories so you can step past them. Then you can use what the mindfulness therapy that you’ve learned and mastered to address difficulties more skillfully and overcome emotional disturbance and pain.

You’ll learn to clear and refresh your mind at stressful times through mindfulness-based therapy with me. You will become able to calm yourself and enjoy stillness. In a mental atmosphere of kindness, compassion, increased empathic awareness, and collaboration, you’ll gain the skills to untangle and unstick your feelings and thoughts from mental anguish.

If you come for mindfulness-informed therapy with me, you’ll become able to clear and refresh your mind at stressful times. In the atmosphere of kindness, compassion, and collaboration in my office, you’ll learn to untangle and release your thoughts and feelings from mental anguish. You will  learn to become calmer and enjoy stillness.

Meditation-based Therapy for Anxiety and Its Disorders

Mindfulness-Based Therapy for Anxiety and Its Disorders

Anxiety and Fear; mindful emotional regulation; overcoming functional impairment due to anxiety

A dear friend and mentor once told me, “When you feel overwhelmed, ask yourself, ‘What’s the next right thing to do?’”  Every step of mindfulness-based therapy for anxiety is designed to enhance your ability to discern reality from scary illusions that delude your mind, act kinder to yourself and other people when you’re fraught with worry or doubt, and set aside worry. or function through it, so you can deal effectively with problems and stresses as they occur.

In mindfulness-based therapy for anxiety with me, you will study the workings of your emotions and mental faculties such as attention and insightful understanding.  As your awareness expands, mindfulness therapy can increase your mental flexibility.

Anxiety and fear are not wedded. Anxiety makes us think that our fears are about to become real when they aren’t. Anxiety is an intense state of mind produced by the sustained expectation that the aversive event is likely (but not certain) to occur. Fear is tied to this very moment only when there’s an immediate or imminent risk of grave bodily injury, shame, or trauma. Anxiety makes us think while fear makes us act.

Mindfulness therapy will change your perceptions so anxiety is experienced as an occasional visitor, rather than a terrorizer you must battle for survival or a vice grip that saps your vitality. Mindfulness-based therapy is very effective with phobias (See Exposure section), Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Panic (See Panic Disorder section). It will reconnect you to the wealth of emotion that disturbing worry, avoidance, and inhibition have suppressed.

“Urgent Care with Mindfulness Therapy” for Panic Disorder reduces the disturbing power of negative emotional and physical feelings and lets people discover they’re not in jeopardy. Strength can emerge from your vulnerable state: It takes valor to face your fears. Mindfulness therapy turns the tide for panic sufferers, so they can do the next right thing and proceed in a valued direction.

Anxiety can’t spoil a job well done nor turn off warmth, love, and affection between people – but it can interfere with it. Mindfulness-based therapy can restore your competencies and reanimate your affectionate bonds as you work on your emotional issues. Psychologists James Herbert and Evan Foreman (2011) have found that we can continue to function effectively at work and in relationships – but therapy really helps – even when we have a great deal of anxiety.

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