Mindfulness based psychological therapy – individual work or
group mindfulness programs
Are you feeling overwhelmed, stressed, anxious? Are you feeling low or behaving poorly to those around you? Mindfulness integrated with CBT offers a wonderful toolkit that helps to understand the relationship between thinking and emotions and the processes that create and maintain unhelpful habits. The skills enable deep levels of change; a path to achieving peace of mind. They may be learned in the process of individual therapy (preferred for complex and acute problems) or through group work. Our program has been subjected to to robust research demonstrating its effectiveness across a broad range of issues.
Group Program dates are on our blog page. Contact us for individual psychology sessions or formal mindfulness training.
Free Online Meditation Sessions
We are currently running weekly online sessions to support people in these challenging times.
Every Tuesday at 8am
Lead by Boyd Cowley
Every Wednesday at 7pm
Lead by Jill Beattie
Every Friday at 1pm
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness enables us to remember to stay fully aware of only what is actually happening in the present both internally and externally – with no bias and no judgement. Mindfulness is a tool that helps us to observe and become aware of our own mental mechanisms. We cannot change what we are not aware of. With mindfulness we learn to manage persistent worrying or “mind-wandering” thinking and emotional reactivity.
Our approach uses Mindfulness-Integrated Cognitive Behavoiur Therapy (MiCBT), developed by Dr Bruno Cayoun (Cayoun, 2011, 2015) and Cayoun, Francis and Shires 2019.
What is MiCBT
Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (MiCBT) places a strong emphasis on developing both the ability to think about our thinking (metacognitive awareness) AND the ability to notice what is happening in our bodies when we are thinking and reacting (interoceptive awareness) . MiCBT training integrates mindfulness training (as taught in Vipassana traditions) with contemporary evidence based approaches of western psychology (CBT and cognitive neurobiology).
MiCBT is structured in 4-stages.
- Stage 1 teaches mindfulness skills to improve attention to and understanding of thoughts and body sensations.
- Stage 2 teaches how to apply these skills to the challenges of daily life helping us to tackle previously avoided situations.
- Stage 3 specifically engages the mindfulness skills in interpersonal communication and relationship issues.
- Stage 4 explores personal ethics from a mindfulness perspective and uses compassion training to develop empathic understanding of ourselves and others.
Changing unhelpful or unwanted habits becomes easier as mindfulness skills are consolidated and integrated into daily life. We learn to understand and accept the process of thinking and sensing and to have a different perspective on troublesome thoughts and reactions. As self understanding increases we also understand others better.
We provide mindfulness training for individuals, groups and organisations.
LOCATION
Suite 314, Level 3,
530 Little Collins Street,
Melbourne 3000.
OFFICE HOURS
Monday - Friday: 9:00 – 18:00
Some Saturdays & Evenings by arrangement
Sunday: Closed
CONTACT
Phone: 03 9629 3869
Fax: 03 7000 5017