Providing individual psychotherapy. See below for upcoming stress-management course.

Treatment specialization includes:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Addiction & Recovery
• Codependency
• Perfectionism
• Work and Career issues
• Stress Management
• Relationship Issues
• Life and Spiritual Crises
• Chronic Pain
• Bipolar Disorder

Mindfulness-Based Stress Management 8-week Series*

This course that combines insights from Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (Williams, Teasdale, Segal and Kabat-Zinn, 2007) and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (Kabat-Zinn, 2013) so that participants can:

• Relax and meet the challenges of everyday life
• Be fully present and alive in this moment, rather than worrying about the future or ruminating on the past
• Respond rather than react to disturbing events
• Improve one’s sense of self
• Decrease anxiety and depression
• Decrease suffering from chronic physical pain.

Structure of the course:

• Eight 2-hour classes the involve teaching, discussion, and meditation practice.
• Required home reading: Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn.
• An all-day retreat.
• Formal mindfulness meditation methods:
  • Body scan meditation
  • Sitting meditation—mindfulness of breath, body, feelings, thoughts, and emotions
  • Walking meditation
  • Eating meditation
  • Yoga
• Informal Mindfulness Mediation Practices
  • Awareness of pleasant and unpleasant events
  • Awareness of breathing
  • Deliberate awareness of routine activities.
  • Daily home assignments including 45 minutes of formal meditation and 10 minutes of informal practice.

This course is $500, which includes the retreat fee, and is limited to 15 participants.