Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Training Programs.
Stress is an inevitable part of our lives. There are often competing demands placed on our time and energy. It can be difficult to balance all the opposing responsibilities placed on us by career, family and personal goals. How we react and respond to these pressures will depend on our personalities and what we have had to deal with in our lives.
Mindfulness is an approach that allows us to relate to ourselves and our lives with wisdom and equanimity. The practice of mindfulness increases our natural ability to develop a different relationship to difficulties; one that increases choice by deciding to have a focus on the present moment, rather than be governed by anxious thoughts about the future or ruminating about the past. When we practice mindfulness, we come to realize how often the mind is on ‘automatic pilot’. Mindfulness allows us to see clearly that thoughts and emotions are transient events and loosens the hold that thinking and moods have on our choices and behaviors. The outcome is a fresh and different perspective.
Susan Woods, MSW, LICSW has been a psychotherapist since 1989 and her practice, Silver Birch Counseling and Psychotherapy is located in the town Stowe in the heart of the Green Mountains, Vermont. Ms. Woods works with a variety of psychological and emotional conditions and is interested in helping people develop wiser choices, take better care of themselves and live healthy more adaptive lives. Ms. Woods has been extensively trained in mindfulness-based approaches and is certified as an MBSR teacher by the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Worcester, MA. She teaches the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program and the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) program.
Ms. Woods has served as consultant on a number of clinical trials that utilized MBCT interventions and is a published author in the training of health professionals in mindfulness-based approaches. She provides consultation and supervision to health professionals in mindfulness-based approaches and leads workshops and professional training programs in MBCT.
Ms. Woods is a certified yoga teacher and teaches mindful yoga and meditation classes.
Silver Birch Counseling and Psychotherapy offers:
- Individual mindfulness-based psychotherapy sessions
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction groups
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy groups
- Consultation/Supervision for health professionals in mindfulness-based approaches
- Mindful Yoga Classes; individual and group classes
- Mindfulness Meditation instruction: individual and group classes
- Mindfulness Meditation CDs