Mindfulness meditation …

… helps to interrupt rumination
… reduces perceived stress
… fosters a sense of calm and balance
… supports the treatment of depression, anxiety disorders and inner restlessness
… helps in dealing with chronic pain

By means of therapeutically accompanied mindfulness meditation, obsessive thoughts, painful emotions, tormenting memories as well as worries about the future are first perceived in a concentrated way by sitting in silence (meditation) and then worked through therapeutically in the group.

The body thinks along

Both psychotherapists in our practice are trained in analytic psychotherapy. From that foundation it is a natural step to include not only speech and imagination, but also the body and mindfulness-based cognitive approaches. For what eludes language often shows itself first in the body: in the breath, in posture, in a tension for which no word has yet been found.

We therefore work with body-oriented and mindfulness-based elements — with breathing and relaxation techniques, with seated meditation, and with practices drawn from trauma-sensitive yoga. They do not replace psychotherapeutic work. They open a second path into it, where conversation alone does not reach.

Trauma-sensitive yoga

Trauma-sensitive yoga is a body-oriented approach for people who, after distressing experiences, no longer experience their own body as a safe place. It is not about performance, not about correct postures and not about spirituality, but about one simple experience: I decide what my body does.

The approach has been studied scientifically. A randomised controlled trial found a significant reduction of symptoms in chronic post-traumatic stress disorder.

We use these elements in individual therapy and in the mindfulness group — adapted to the individual person and always embedded in the psychotherapeutic process.