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For Psychotherapists & Academics Brooke Hartnett For Psychotherapists & Academics Brooke Hartnett

Mindful-Being Psychotherapy & Increased Therapuetic Efficacy

In addition to mindfulness-based and mindfulness-informed therapy, I suggest a third, equally important category of mindfulness integration: the therapist’s being mindful in the moment with the client, which I call mindful-being. Of course, I could simply call this mindful psychotherapy, but that title doesn’t delineate which part of the therapy is mindful. Mindful-being is the therapist’s way of being in session, touching every aspect of therapy, for example, what is noticed, interventions, counter-transference, compassion, or insight. This has more of a bearing on how the client experiences the therapy than what is said to the client.

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