15 Must-Have Mindfulness Techniques for Clinicians: Skills to Transform Your Treatment Plans for Stress, Depression, Anxiety, Anger, Trauma, Guilt and Shame

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Mindfulness Center of Southern Maine

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Terry Fralich, LCPC, is a co-founder of the Mindfulness Retreat Center of Maine and former Adjunct Faculty Member of the University of Southern Maine Graduate School. He has led more than 400 seminars, trainings and retreats at the Center, at Omega Institute, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, both nationally and internationally. His expertise consists of mindfulness, neuroscience, CBT, brain change, emotional intelligence, stress reduction, meditation and the treatment of anxiety and depression. He has been teaching transformative mindfulness skills and practices for 20 years and has pursued his own practice of mindfulness and meditation for 40 years.

Terry studied extensively with His Holiness the Dalai Lama for 25 years and with some of the American pioneers of mindfulness, including Jon Kabat-Zinn and John Welwood. His first book, Cultivating Lasting Happiness: A 7-Step Guide to Mindfulness, was cited as one of “the 12 essential books on mindfulness.” His second book, The Five Core Skills of Mindfulness: A Direct Path to More Confidence, Joy and Love, presents his clear and unique approach to mindfulness practice as a powerful force for healthy change in our everyday lives. Prior to becoming a mindfulness therapist, academic and author, Terry was an attorney who practiced law in New York City, Los Angeles and Portland, Maine.

Speaker Disclosure:

Financial: Terry Fralich is in private practice. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Terry Fralich has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.

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Objectives

1. Motivate clients to engage in treatment with understandable descriptions of the neurological processes that underlie common disorders and easy to follow explanations of how mindfulness can affect these processes.
2. Establish how mindfulness practices can be used in therapy to impact the stress reaction and shift clients to a relaxation response.
3. Incorporate mindfulness interventions into your treatment plans for depression and anxiety that can counter automatic patterns of thoughts.
4. Communicate how mindfulness and breathing techniques that reduce the body’s anger responses can be taught in-session to help clients manage their angered outbursts.
5. Analyze the neurobiology of the traumatized brain and calm it with grounding techniques and breathing exercises.
6. Appraise the clinical utility of mindfulness-based therapies in regulating shame and guilt.

Outline

• Educate the client about the impact of stress
• Practice makes perfect – transform the stress response
• Exercises
  • Strengthen awareness of the stress response
  • Shifting to relaxation response: cultivate a foundation of groundedness, settledness, and ease
  • Mindful transitions

• The downward spiral and the brain’s default mode
• Cultivate motivation and action
• Witness the anxious mind
• Get unstuck from anxious rumination
• Exercise:
  • Self-regulation practices for anxiety

• Understand the sources of anger
• The body’s anger response
• Identify early signs of the anger forest fire
• Clarify the practice: What am I trying to remember?
• Exercise:
  • Rehearsal of the Stop-Breathe-Reflect-Choose practice

• Proceed with caution – avoid retriggering and retraumatizing
• Retrain the dysregulated nervous system
• Cultivate safety
• Exercises:
  • Grounding techniques
  • Breathing techniques
  • Positive visualization

• Identifying primary core negative belief
• Cultivating a healthy and true vision of self
• Exercises:
  • The protective quality of mantras
  • Exercises that promote self-forgiveness

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