Mindfulness Course

Mindulfness Coarse

Mindfulness Course

A significant body of research demonstrates that mindfulness helps to

diminish psychological distress while enhancing psychological well-being.

Mindfulness helps with anxiety disorders, depression, chronic pain, ADHD,

and other forms of mental illness.

In this 6-week course you will learn to practice different forms of mindfulness: formal and informal, active and meditative, thereby gaining skills to cope with stress and emotional distress.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Olivia Harman, MA, MSW, LMSW is a therapist at Clayton Behavioral. Her specialty is

providing mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to adolescents and adults struggling with stress, anxiety disorders, depression, and substance abuse. She was trained in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at Masterpeace Studios, and received additional training in mindfulness-based CBT during a training at the Beck Institute for CBT.

The benefits of mindfulness are vast. So, we have broken them up into categories, this is by no means a comprehensive list:

Well Being and mental health

Boosts to working memory
Relieves rumination
Stress Reduction
Creates a greater capacity to deal with adverse events.
Increasing your capacity for mindfulness supports many attitudes that contribute to a satisfied life.
Savor the pleasures in life as they occur, helps you become fully engaged in activities.
Relieves depression
Helps with substance abuse
Relieves eating disorders
Less emotional reactivity
Relieves anxiety disorders
Helps obsessive-compulsive disorder
Relationship satisfaction