How CBT, ACT, MI, AND MINDFULNESS are used in therapy
- Psychotherapy using CBT, ACT, MI, and Mindfulness are remarkably helpful in making the practice of your values, strengths, and abilities the priority you want it to be. These therapy techniques can help you be more aware of how your brain has been working hard to create and maintain anxiety and depression. This awareness can help you to begin practicing new habits of thinking and being.
- In therapy (using CBT, ACT, MI, and Mindfulness), you can practice recognizing how your unpleasant emotional experiences are associated with unhelpful (and often inaccurate) language. You can also practice recognizing unhelpful behavior associated with these thoughts and emotions. These behaviors, thoughts, and emotions can be viewed as unhelpful habits you continue to experience because of the way your brain does such a great job at doing what it is has been doing (i.e., maintaining status quo). Being aware of thoughts, feelings, and emotions that are inconsistent with how you want to be, gives you the opportunity to intentionally respond in a healthy, helpful, and enjoyable manner.
- CBT, ACT, MI, and Mindfulness provide skills to help you learn how to practice shifting your attention toward where you want your life to be (instead of focused on and affected by what you don’t want in your life). Therapy helps you practice letting your brain know that you want to engage and participate in value-based actions (rather than avoidance-based actions that keep you working hard for status quo).
Learning how to practice living the life you want
- These strategies will work because your brain will help you do what you want and be who you want to be (brains can do this really well). Therapy helps you start and continue practicing being how you want to be. By doing so, you provide your brain with the information needed to help you be successful in your life. Therapy helps you practice living the life you want intentionally so that you can more readily implement your best life whenever you want.
- Therapy can help you intentionally practice using helpful, accurate language and healthy behaviors consistent with what is important to you. This way of being builds your confidence in responding to what happens in your life in healthy ways. You build confidence in being consistent with your priorities and how you want to be in your life.
- When you are not working hard for status quo, you have more energy to put into living a happy, healthy life right now. When you are building confidence in paying attention to helpful thoughts and physical sensations, taking actions consistent with your values, and intentionally tracking under what situations they occur – you send the message you want to send to yourself, others, and the world.
If living intentionally sounds attractive to you, I hope that you will contact me with questions you may have or to schedule an appointment.