LEARN HOW TO TAME
DEPRESSION & ANXIETY
Get the tools you need in a
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy group
In a Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) group, you’ll learn how to apply
mindfulness – a relaxed attentiveness to one’s experience in the present moment – to
painful thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations associated with depression, anxiety, and
other forms of psychological distress. By practicing mindfulness skills in the group and at
home, you’ll begin to relate to these experiences with acceptance and ease instead of
habitual, self-defeating defenses. In the process, you’ll also discover that you can often
prevent them from spiraling into more severe depression and anxiety.
Based on a groundbreaking program that has been clinically proven to bolster recovery
from depression and prevent relapse (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for
Depression by Segal, Williams & Teasdale, Guilford Press, 2002), this group is highly
experiential, offering participants a set of tools and exercises they can take home with
them and integrate into their daily lives. In fact, weekly homework assignments are an
essential component of the program.
Led by a psychiatrist and a psychiatric social worker, both with extensive experience as
clinicians and practitioners of mindfulness meditation, the group meets on Wednesday
evenings from 5:30-7:15pm at 23 Main Street in Watertown Square. There are generally
two sessions per year, one in the fall and one in the spring. For more information, please
visit www.MBCTBoston.com. Or contact Tom Pedulla, LICSW at 617-803-0951 or
Jerome Bass, MD at 617-731-9965.