10 Jul Learn How To Tame Depression and Anxiety – Boston
If you’re in the Boston area I wanted to let you know about this upcoming group for September, 2011. Tom Pedulla and Jerome Bass are in that special league: wonderful people and terrific therapists.Get the Tools You Need in this Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
In this group, you’ll learn a variety of ways to use mindfulness – a relaxed attentiveness to one’s experience in the present moment – to manage painful thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations associated with depression, anxiety, and other forms of emotional and psychological distress.
By practicing mindfulness-related skills in the group and at home, you’ll begin to relate to these painful experiences with more acceptance and ease instead of with habitual, self-defeating defenses. In the process, you’ll also discover that you can often prevent these experiences from spiraling into more severe depression and anxiety.
Based on a groundbreaking program that has been clinically proven to bolster recovery from depression and prevent relapse (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression by Segal, Williams & Teasdale, Guilford Press, 2002), this
group is highly experiential, offering participants a set of tools and exercises they can take home with them and integrate into their daily lives. In fact, weekly homework assignments are an essential component of the program.
Led by a psychiatrist and a psychiatric social worker, both with extensive experience as clinicians and practitioners of mindfulness meditation, the group meets on Wednesday evenings from 5:30-7:15pm at 23 Main Street in Watertown Square. There are generally two sessions per year, one in the fall and one in the spring. The fee for the group is $480, with some
sliding scale slots available. Participants are also expected to meet individually with one of the leaders for an initial intake meeting. For more information, please visit www.MBCTBoston.com. Or contact Tom Pedulla, LICSW at 617-803-0951 or Jerome Bass, MD at 617-731-9965.