The 8-Week Workshop

This 8-week course is for those with a long history with depression or generalized anxiety. After 3 or more experiences of major depression, the risk of relapse is high. The methods taught in MBCT were shown in research to reduce the risk of relapse by 50%. While MBCT has not been fully researched for generalized anxiety, there are indicators that it is also helpful there.

MBCT is created out of the renowned MBSR program developed by Jon Kabat Zinn at the University of Massachusetts over 25 years ago, and modified 8 years ago by psychologists Zindel Segal, Mark Williams, and John Teasdale to bring a focus onto long-term depression. MBCT can bring you relief from the powerful negative thoughts that are so destructive to your attempts to keep depression and anxiety at bay. MBCT can bring lasting change in the way you relate to your life, as well as improved self-esteem and increased ability to cope with emotional pain and stress. Participants may or may not be on psychotropic medication for this workshop, the material is useful either way.

The basic elements of MBCT are the practice of mindfulness and using cognitive-behavioral methods to change the way you relate to your negative thinking. It is offered on 8 Monday evenings. There is also a half-day of practice on a Saturday morning. Participants need to have recovered sufficiently from their most recent depression to be able to do the home practice that is a critical part of MBCT.

The next workshop begins April 19, 2010 and is recession priced at $250. This may be partially or fully insurance reimbursable. The cost is reduced to encourage wider participation in these difficult times.

The normal cost is $50 per 2-hour class, plus $50 for the 3 CDs and workbook, a total of $450. That is reduced to $250 for this group, so that those affected by the recession also may participate. Class size may be increased somewhat, but the teachings offered will be complete.

Class meets from 6:00 to 8:15 pm. The cost also includes a half-day of practice on a Saturday or Sunday. The class is held at 44 East 32 Street in Manhattan, New York City.

To join the next group you will need to

• mail in a check to reserve your space, and
• attend the mandatory orientation on April 12, so I can answer your questions, learn a bit about you, and to make sure this will be a good fit for you.

Please use the button above to e-mail me, or call (917) 202-5148

Mindful Psychotherapy

Individual psychotherapy is customized to your particular needs. It includes work on your past as well as an emphasis on how you are doing, right now, in this moment. In fact, a lot of work is done in the present moment.

Often, the goal is to better know and live with the person you are rather than to fundamentally change you. To change your relationship to your thoughts and feelings so that you realize the choices you have. To realize you may not be as stuck as you feel. While I work cognitively, I also work with your emotions and moods, sometimes teaching new ways to deal with them.

Mindfulness of your life is used as an entry into deeper understanding of your difficulty, and also as a pathway towards deeper appreciation of who you are, some changes in how you relate to yourself, and ultimately as a path to your healing and moving ahead with your life. Individual mindful psychotherapy is offered in Manhattan at 138 West 25 Street, and in Brooklyn at 26 Court Street.

For more information call 917-202-5148, e-mail Info@DonaldFleck.com, or fill out the form under the Contact tab.