Don’t tell my clients, but all of the therapy I do is mindfulness-based. I also use interventions that are Psychodynamic, Strengths-Based and Emotionally Focused, but mindfulness is in the background of all therapeutic work that I do in the sense that I am almost always guiding clients to make observations about themselves, learn something from those observations, and then watch themselves again in the present moment when a similar situation comes up. More than 15 years of working as a therapist has shown me that this repeated practice of observation and adjustment over time can be the most direct route to ‘leveling up’ one’s happiness and sense of freedom in life. I welcome both clients who have no experience with practicing mindfulness but would like to try it out and the long-term meditator/mindfulness devotee. I love to work with long term meditators and have found that there is a natural deepening of one’s practice that comes from just taking the time to talk about it in a slow, uninterrupted space. I have also found that clients who come to me with a mindfulness background are able to make amazing use of the therapy hour as they are often able to sink right in to their process and emotions so that we have a lot of time left to explore and make discoveries together.
