MBCT for Adults
Welcome to MBCT (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy) for Adults, an eight-week experiential group program based on evidence-based MBCT practices. Designed to reduce anxiety, distress, and depression and increase positive mental health and well-being.
In this group/class, the focus is on cultivating a way of relating to thoughts and feelings, especially negative thought patterns and difficult emotions, that is non-judgmental, compassionate, and present-focused.
By increasing awareness and acceptance, we can decrease the use of automatic and unhelpful responses to distress and improve effective coping, resilience, and overall well-being.
Who Can Benefit?
This program is appropriate for adults experiencing on-going stress and anxiety, emotional distress, and/or depressed symptoms such as burnout or lack of motivation. It has been adapted to include people who wish to reduce habits of excessive worry, numbing out, and other unhelpful ways of coping with stress and to increase their sense of enjoyment, peace, and engagement in their lives and relationships.
Program Details:
Duration: Eight weeks
Session Length: 2 hours per week
Format: Currently all sessions are online (using Zoom platform)
Access: Participants will receive directions on how to attend.
ONLINE SHORT COURSE
Mindfulness for Adults
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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is a clinically researched, evidence-based therapeutic approach that combines mindfulness practices with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles. Based on the groundbreaking work of Jon Kabat Zinn’s mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program, MBCT was developed as a group program to help prevent relapse in individuals with recurrent depression. It has since expanded to include help for anxiety and other mental health conditions and the principles are implemented in individual therapy as well.
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Using mindfulness practices, the cognitive psychologists and creators of MBCT – Segal, Teasdale, and Williams, developed it to help break the cycles of negative habits of the mind – such as rumination, self-criticism, and avoidance – that lead to downward spirals of distress. In this class you will engage in practices and experiential exercises to strengthen your ability to bring awareness to the present moment and disengage from unhelpful habits of mind. The class is two hours, but it is the between session home practices where the most gains occur. Therefore, it is important to be able to set aside time each day to engage in these practices.
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This class is appropriate for adults of any age who are experiencing chronic stress and anxiety in their everyday lives, getting in the way of enjoying life as much as they would like to. This class is also suitable for individuals with moderate levels of emotional distress and depressed symptoms, such as symptoms of burnout, and for persons who have suffered from more severe depression in the past. And finally, this class has been adapted to include people who simply wish to reduce habits of excessive worry, and other unhelpful ways of coping with stress and to increase their sense of enjoyment, peace, and engagement in their lives and relationships.
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In making the decision to take this important step, I welcome you to call me and we will talk by phone and can even set up a short Zoom meeting to talk about the class and program. In addition, if you are seeing a therapist you might want to consult with them about taking the class. They are very welcome to contact me to discuss the class program to help advise you.
Are you ready to learn new mindfulness-based skills to improve your quality of life?
Let's get started together.