Mindful Therapies

Mindful Therapies are therapeutic approaches, which incorporate mindfulness as a way of helping clients to develop an open, accepting, non-judgmental relationship to their experience. When we live mindfully, we are open to life, experiencing every moment deeply, in an open and relaxed manner.   Mindful Therapies help individuals slow down enough to process more deeply, and to respond rather than react to life, even when it is difficult.  Living on “automatic pilot” or “mindlessly” causes a lack of calmness and clarity and increases our difficulties and suffering. 

Mindful Therapies help clients cultivate a non-judgmental stance to their emotions, thoughts, and feelings while exploring and resolving underlying issues. These treatment approaches integrate psychodynamic and cognitive psychotherapy with mindfulness practices, creating a powerful synergy and allowing for direct attention to symptom relief. Clients learn to master their emotional states while gaining self-awareness, and an understanding of how their thoughts and beliefs get in the way of living to their full potential. The treatment approaches are used in individual, group and couples therapy sessions.

Mindful Therapies help clients become more fully aware of their thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, so they can relate to them in new and creative ways. Mindfulness techniques also allow clients to work directly with their symptoms, reducing their intensity and negative effects. Ultimately, Mindful Therapies help clients move from automatic patterns of behaviour to healthier, more self-affirming ways of responding to situations in daily life.

Whatever the treatment -- whether it is psychotherapy, reiki, or cognitive behavior therapy -- adding the dimension of mindfulness provides clients with long term tools to deal with the ups and downs of daily life.