Mindfulness

Maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and the surrounding environment, through a gentle, nurturing lens.

Mindfulness is the process of bringing one’s attention to your present moment experiences without judgement and without analysis. It is simply noting, naming, and watching what happens next. Mindfulness can be practiced as a form of sitting or walking meditation and self-management skill.

In therapy, mindfulness is taught as a skill to help clients slow down their reactions to things they are experiencing and to relax their body. This can help them increase their sense of control and self-confidence as well as develop a quieter mind and more relaxed physical state. Mindfulness can also be used to improve communication skills and behavior. It has been found helpful in building a sense of calm, well-being, and empathy.

It has been shown to be helpful to:

• Relieve stress and emotional distress
• Treat heart disease
• Lower blood pressure
• Reduce chronic pain
• Improve sleep
• Alleviate gastrointestinal difficulties

It can also be added in to treatment for:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Trauma
• Couple’s Therapy
• and more

For more information on mindfulness: https://www.helpguide.org/harvard/benefits-of-mindfulness.htm

Yes, definitely! In fact, we encourage it. It is a part of our Integrative Mental Health Care. Adding EMDR, yoga, mindfulness or music to your current therapy will broaden the road to healthy, comprehensive mental health care. Talk to your current therapist and let them know you want to add one of our integrative care options.

It is all a part of our Integrative Mental Health Care approach. Somatic Therapy could work for you. Have you ever tried to think yourself out of a panic attack or stop a traumatic memory from intruding upon you? Have you been taking medication for your pain, anxiety, or depression and only had a so-so response? Have you learned how to change your thinking and behaviors only to find yourself still stuck in the same cycle?

Our therapists utilize scientifically supported somatic interventions – the research has been done and the results show that these interventions work!

• Yoga Therapy – this somatic therapy connects your body, breath, and your mind.
• EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) – this somatic intervention focuses on the reprocessing of trauma thoughts
• Music Therapy

• Trauma
• Panic and anxiety
• Depression
• Stress management
• Coping with chronic medical conditions: fibromyalgia, chronic pain, low back pain, migraines, MS, living with or recovering from severe illness, etc.
• Addiction recovery

If you have already established a relationship you value with a therapist or other provider but are interested in also trying one of these interventions, feel free to give us a call. We are happy to coordinate your care with any of your current providers and offer these interventions in addition to what you are already doing. We can all work together to bring you the results you are looking for.

1. You will find yourself having less of a reaction to previously triggering memories and experiences. When the biological components of one’s experience are addressed in addition to the cognitive components, a more thorough processing of memories can take place. Long held muscle tension, established neurological patterns, and automatic emotional and behavioral responses can be transformed into healthier responses.
2. You will develop a stronger, more reliable sense of control of and comfort in your body. By more deeply incorporating a person’s physiology as part of their treatment for emotional distress, clients can more successfully notice the earliest signs of emotional triggers. This gives clients more awareness of what is happening for them so they have more time to utilize a wide variety of cognitive and behavioral skills to interrupt unpleasant experiences and emotions.