Therapy For Mindfulness And Meditation
Support Through The Stages Of Meditation
Meditation for Mental Health & Illness
When your mind feels like a prison, learn how meditation can be a tunnel to freedom.
Support For Meditation Practices
Beginner, intermediate, and advanced meditation skills to expand your experience.
How Therapy Supports Your Meditation Journey
Mindfulness therapy and meditation counseling provide personalized support to help you:
✔ Refine your practice and move past obstacles.
✔ Work through emotional or psychological barriers that arise in meditation.
✔ Integrate mindfulness into daily life in a meaningful way.
Personalized Guidance for Every Stage of Practice
In my counseling practice In Colorado, I work with clients who are:
✅ Exploring mindfulness for the first time.
✅ Using meditation to manage mental health challenges.
✅ Seeking advanced guidance or spiritual integration.
How Meditation Helps with Mental Illness
Meditation is often seen as a tool for relaxation, but its benefits go far beyond stress relief. Research shows multiple benefits mindfulness and meditation for mental health like significant improvements in mental health conditions like anxiety, depression, PTSD, and even schizophrenia when practiced correctly. However, meditation alone isn’t always enough—therapy can provide structure, guidance, and integration support.
Meditation for Anxiety & Depression
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) has been shown to reduce depression relapse rates by up to 43% (Kuyken et al., 2016).
Meditation helps regulate the amygdala, the part of the brain responsible for fear and stress responses (Tang et al., 2015).
Meditation for PTSD & Trauma
Mindfulness can help trauma survivors process emotions without becoming overwhelmed, reducing PTSD symptoms (Lang et al., 2012).
Body-focused meditations (like breath awareness) can calm hyperarousal in people with PTSD.
Meditation for Bipolar Disorder & Schizophrenia
Some studies suggest that meditation improves emotional regulation in bipolar disorder, but it must be practiced carefully to avoid triggering manic episodes (Van der Velden et al., 2015).
Guided meditation for mental health can help individuals with schizophrenia manage symptoms like intrusive thoughts and emotional dysregulation.
Meditation for Chronic Conditions (IBS, Insomnia, Pain)
Mindfulness-based interventions have been found to reduce pain intensity and improve quality of life for those with chronic pain conditions (Zeidan et al., 2016).
Meditation is an effective, drug-free approach for insomnia, helping regulate sleep cycles and calm nighttime anxiety.
Top Struggles
✓ Spiritual Crisis
✓ Unresolved Trauma
✓ Plateaus In Your Practice
Sometimes, Mindfulness & Meditation Needs Therapy
When you use meditation for mental health, it is is often seen as a self-sufficient practice, but it can also bring up unexpected emotional and psychological challenges. While many people experience peace, clarity, and relaxation, others encounter unresolved trauma, overwhelming emotions, existential confusion, or a full on spiritual emergency—especially as their practice deepens.
Validation and connection
Support That Honors Personal sovereignty
Developing Intermediate & Advanced Skills
From learning how to not think about when the timer will go off to learning how to hold a state of curiosity in the mind and body, there are many skills and many practices for many different outcomes in meditation.
- Refining Attention & Awareness – Moving beyond simple breath focus to cultivate deep, sustained awareness in daily life.
- Mindfulness for Emotional Processing – Using meditation to observe and transform habitual emotional reactions.
- Working Through Plateaus – Recognizing when you’re stuck and how to break through without forcing progress.
- Exploring Different Meditation Styles – Incorporating techniques like self-inquiry, visualization, or body-based mindfulness to expand your practice.
- Spiritual Depth & Existential Insight – Engaging with meditation for mental health and self-discovery, meaning-making, and transformation.
How I Combine Mindfulness, Meditation & Therapy
Meditation and mindfulness are powerful tools, but real transformation happens when they are applied with intention, guidance, and support.
My approach blends theraputic practices to help you navigate challenges, deepen your practice, and integrate mindfulness into daily life in a way that truly serves you.
I work with clients who are:
- Struggling with emotional overwhelm, anxiety, or trauma in meditation.
- Using meditation for mental health conditions like depression or PTSD.
- Seeking personalized guidance for deepening their meditation practice.
- Facing spiritual or existential challenges that arise through meditation.
In our sessions, I use a combination of:
- Guided meditation instruction tailored to your needs.
- Mindfulness therapy to work through emotional blocks.
- Trauma-informed meditation techniques for safe and supportive practice.
- Somatic and transpersonal approaches for those exploring deeper spiritual or self-inquiry work.
Therapy Modalities That Support Mindfulness & Meditation
Meditation is a powerful tool, but it’s not always enough on its own—especially when deeper emotional patterns, trauma, or mental health challenges arise. Therapy can provide a structured, guided approach to navigating these experiences, helping you integrate mindfulness in a way that supports your overall well-being.
Somatic Counseling
A body-focused approach that helps process emotions through physical awareness. Somatic therapy is useful when meditation brings up stored trauma or intense bodily sensations that need careful integration.
Transpersonal & Spiritually Integrated Counseling
For those using meditation as part of their spiritual journey, transpersonal counseling provides a space to explore deep existential questions, spiritual awakenings, and identity shifts without feeling isolated or misunderstood. It’s also spiritually integrated because it includes the spiritual dimension of each client in a way that honors their spiritual sovereignty.
Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT)
Designed to help individuals develop self-compassion and emotional resilience. This approach is particularly helpful if meditation has uncovered self-judgment, inner criticism, or unresolved guilt.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Therapy
MBSR is a research-backed approach that uses meditation, breathwork, and body awareness to reduce stress, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm. It helps build resilience, emotional balance, and present-moment awareness, making it a powerful tool in therapy.