Integrating Mindfulness
in Clinical Practice
Intensive experiential training for health / mental health professionals
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Mindfulness has entered the mainstream of mental health treatment, and the efficacy of traditional meditation methods has been supported by clinical and neuroscience research. Alone or in combination with other therapeutic modalities, mindfulness techniques can be beneficial for clients with issues including addiction, anxiety, trauma, depression, ADHD, relational difficulties and emotional dysregulation. I train clinicians in methods that are informed by the latest in clinical and neuroscience research, and based on over 40 years of experience with the traditional meditation practices from which clinical research-based mindfulness techniques were derived. In my experience, existing manualized treatments such as Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy have compliance requirements that are too rigorous for most of the people I work with and are therefore difficult to implement in a way that leaves their claims of being ‘evidence based’ intact.
I have developed a method for training clinicians to deliver mindfulness interventions in small doses that are designed for clients’ individual characteristics and circumstances. Clinicians who take these courses will receive my chapter detailing this clinical training method (Springer, 2017).
Who has benefited from this training?
I have trained clinicians in hospital psychiatric departments, university counseling centers, substance abuse rehab centers, OMH licensed mental health clinics, psychoanalytic institutes, and in private practice. Clinician trainees have included psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, art therapists, nurse practitioners, and mental health counselors, from beginners to experienced meditation practitioners, as well as individuals with extensive training in manualized approaches such as Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction.