Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) has become the most empirically well-validated psychological treatment with a meditation basis, according to esteemed psychologists and authors Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson. I have received specific training in MBCT from Zindel Segal, one of the founders of this approach and an author of “The Mindful Way Through Depression,” and I’ve been teaching MBCT since 2011.
By incorporating practices from the highly effective Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn over 30 years ago, with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the latest in brain science research, MBCT teaches people how to prevent mild states of depression and anxiety from spiraling out of control. MBCT’s effectiveness has been demonstrated in hundreds of research studies and clinical settings, and it has also been used successfully to treat anxiety disorders, bipolar disorders, and other conditions characterized by rumination and chronic worry.