MBCT (Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy)

What is MBCT?

MBCT is a Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy 8-week program. It offers an integration of Cognitive, Mindfulness, and Meditation techniques and practices. Participants are introduced to a series of exercises to become more aware and let go of unhelpful (anxious or depressive) thoughts. The practice of these exercises gives participants the opportunity to be more in control of their emotions and behaviours, and change negative patterns. This program may be an effective treatment for a variety of mental health and physical health problems including anxiety disorders, depression, anger management, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, and insomnia.

Benefits Of MBCT

These sessions will help you to:

• Become aware of the way your mind works
• Recognize thinking patterns
• Descentre (to create distance) from your thoughts and be in there here and now
• Notice the times when you are at risk of getting caught in old habits of mind that re-activate downward mood spirals
• Explore ways of releasing yourself from those old habits
• Acknowledge that you have choices other than your automatic responses
• Put you in touch with a different way of knowing yourself and the world
• Notice small beauties and pleasures in the world around you instead of living in your head
• Be kind to yourself instead of wishing things were different all the time, or driving yourself to meet impossible goals
• Develop more empathy, compassion, and self-compassion
• Find a way so you don’t have to battle with yourself all the time
• Identify warning signs and take proactive action
• Accept yourself as you are, rather than judging yourself all the time
• Focus on the present moment

Course Details

This 8-week course is facilitated by Dr. Silvina Galperin, a Registered Psychologist, Certified CBT therapist, and Mindfulness Meditation Teacher.

Dates: TBA

Time: TBA

Where: 7626 Yonge Street, Thornhill

The course runs for 8 sessions and is an opportunity for people to try something new and see if they like it.

MBCT integrates the practice of mindfulness meditation and scientific cognitive strategies. It was developed by Drs. Zindel Segal, Mark Williams, and John Teasdale to treat people who have suffered from repeated episodes of depression and chronic unhappiness. As studies demonstrated great success, it started to be used to treat other conditions with positive results.

People who suffer from chronic worry, anxiety, depression, and stress, tend to engage in negative thinking, rumination, and usually find it difficult to get out of those unwanted mental states.

In recent studies, MBCT has proven to be an effective treatment for people with a variety of mental and physical health problems as well as for preventing relapse. In addition, it is approved and recommended by the National Institutes of Health and Clinical Excellence of the US and UK.

Read more about CBT group therapy.

Here is what some of our past participants had to say:

This course was really enjoyable! I will continue to practice”

Thank you Silvina for being such an amazing teacher!

Dr. Silvina is awesome; so calm, clear, thorough & effective.

She is an amazing person for facilitating this practice