MBCT
LGBTQ+ individuals often navigate unique emotional, relational, cultural, and societal challenges that deserve to be met with expertise, care, and affirmation.
My approach is grounded in more than two decades of clinical work, teaching, community advocacy, and research within LGBTQ+ communities.
LGBTQ+ Affirmative Therapy is not just “inclusive.” It is actively supportive, identity-affirming, and rooted in social justice and cultural understanding.
Where MBCT
Comes From
MBCT draws on traditional Buddhist meditation practices—adapted to a secular mental health context.
Core elements include:
- Training attention so it can return gently to the present moment
- Redirecting the mind from automatic rumination and mental distraction
- Recognizing the impermanence and plasticity of our inner experience (nothing is fixed)
- Cultivating kindness and compassion as natural states of mind
These ingredients help create more flexibility, curiosity, and spaciousness around your experience.
How MBCT Can
Help
MBCT is especially supportive if you’re living with:
Core elements include:
- Recurrent depression or low mood
- Anxiety, worry, or stress
- Difficulties with addictive or compulsive patterns
- Residual effects of trauma or past overwhelming experiences
What We Practice Together
In MBCT-oriented work, you’ll learn to:
- Build sustained attention and gently bring it back when it wanders
- Develop moment-to-moment awareness of body sensations, emotions, and thoughts
- Notice unhelpful thinking patterns without fusing with them
- Strengthen your connection to core values, strengths, and inner resources
- Relate to yourself with greater empathy, clarity, and steadiness
Start Your Healing
Journey Today
Experience the transformative power of Integrative Depth Psychology with a free
consultation. Explore the roots of your challenges and find lasting peace and growth.