We can help you develop skills to utilize when in need of more immediate calm as well as skills to improve resilience to stressors on a longer-term basis. Through practice, your brain will get better at regulating the body's stress response, shifting the autonomic nervous system from the heightened "sympathetic" state (fight or flight) to the more calming "parasympathetic" state (rest and digest). As a result, mindfulness can help lower heart rate, reduce blood pressure, improve breathing patterns, release muscle tension, and promote relaxation in the body.

When honing skills of attentiveness to different sensations, thoughts, and emotions, your brain relearns what it means to stay with one task instead of the hundreds of tasks we’re asked to juggle each day. Learning how to focus in this way can improve your performance at work and your ability to stay in connection and present with others, and your enjoyment of the hobbies and activities most important to you.

Often, our minds are clouded by distractions, self-judgment, or anxiety in sexual contexts, which can interfere with our ability to experience true pleasure and intimacy. Mindfulness teaches us to be fully present, to let go of expectations, and to embrace our bodies as they are. By helping you fully connect with the sensations, emotions, and intimacy of the moment, mindfulness practice can help improve sense of sexual desire and feel a greater sense of enjoyment of sexual touch. Through regular mindfulness practice, you can also reduce performance anxiety and self-criticism, allowing you to feel more relaxed and open to the sensations of touch, pleasure, and emotional connection. Click here for more information on our sex therapy services.

All too often we do not meet our bodies where they are at, and it’s not until we are dysregulated and engaging in behavior we later regret that we notice. Through education and practice, we can help you become more aware of your emotions and bodily sensations as they are arising so that you are more able to address them with care and compassion. You will also get better at responding from a centered place rather than reacting. This means you’re more likely to make decisions that you feel positively about in the long run and run into fewer conflicts with those around you. 

We work with individuals navigating chronic health conditions and chronic pain to improve their relationship with their symptoms and therefore, reduce suffering from them. We can also help train you in techniques that might help individuals with sleep disorders fall asleep more quickly and re-energize those who are regularly feeling fatigued during waking hours.

One of the foundational skills built into mindfulness practice is the act of befriending and attending to whatever is happening. This means that as we practice mindfulness, we access our natural ability to offer compassion and openness to ourselves, others, and the world around us. As we attune with curiosity to the body and mind, we become less judgmental and more accepting to ourselves and the reality of our situation.