MiCBT is an 8-week mindfulness program integrated with CBT that is beneficial for people with pre-clinical or clinical mental illness – delivered within individual therapy or as a group program:

• Level 1 evidence for effectiveness including for anxiety, depression, PTSD, pain, and stress.
• Sustained benefits shown for at least six months post treatment.
• Medicare rebate for eligible patients in individual therapy.
• Online group program provides an alternative cost-effective option.

MiCBT improves mental wellbeing through developing self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and social skills:

• MiCBT is differentiated by its strong emphasis on awareness of both thinking patterns and the co-arising body sensations that comprise emotions as well as on acceptance and non-reactivity. The theory and tools taught in MiCBT facilitate enduring behaviour change.
• Mindful and compassionate exposure to challenging emotions and associated body sensation breaks the pattern of unhelpful reactive thoughts and behaviours.
• Four stages that start with internal awareness and flows to practical ways to engage with others (see figure).

Evidence base:

Here is the link to our  research on the effectiveness of MiCBT  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360967318

Additional research on the use of MiCBT in various clinical settings:

• anxiety and depression in pregnant women (Yazdanimehr et al., 2016)DOI: 10.15171/jcs.2016.021
• women with multiple sclerosis (Bahrani et al., 2017) https://doi.org/10.1590/2237-6089-2018-0105
• men and women with type 2 diabetes (Sohrabi et al., 2022) https://doi.org/10.1007/s44202-022-00026-6
• chronic pain (Cayoun et al., 2020) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-017-0823-x
• pain self-efficacy in patients with breast cancer (Mozafari-Motlagh et al., 2019) https://doi.org/10.1590/2237-6089-2018-0105