Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy – offering individual and group therapy that integrates mindfulness with CBT – a powerful evidence-based therapeutic approach.
Feeling overwhelmed, stressed, anxious, or behaving poorly towards others?
Consider joining a group mindfulness program – next program starts on Tuesday 6th October 2026
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Our clinic
We are psychologists highly trained in mindfulness-integrated cognitive behaviour therapy (MiCBT). Our research – published in Frontiers in Psychiatry – demonstrates the effectiveness of our mindfulness-based approach https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.815170
We offer individual and group therapy (dates below) that uses MiCBT to teach a set of skills and tools to improve mental health. MiCBT integrates mindfulness with CBT – both powerful and evidence-based therapeutic approaches. The meditation exercises are designed to increase awareness and understanding of mental processes and the CBT exercises work with changing unhelpful behaviours. We work with the underlying processes that cause and maintain psychological distress associated with a wide range of issues including:
- Anxiety disorders: generalised anxiety, social anxiety, OCD
- Mood disorders: depression, bipolar affective disorder
- Trauma: traumatic stress and PTSD
- Substance use disorders
- Work stress
- Relationships: family; partner; workplace
- Pain management
- Life transitions: transitions in work; transitions to parenthood; moving to retirement
- Grief and loss
Our Services
Training, therapy and group mindfulness sessions
Group Training Programs
Individual Therapy
Ongoing Support
Employee Assistance Program
Support for Organisations
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness enables us to remember to stay fully aware of only what is actually happening in the present both internally and externally – with no bias and no judgement. Mindfulness is a tool that helps us to observe and become aware of our own mental mechanisms. We cannot change what we are not aware of. With mindfulness we learn to manage persistent worrying or “mind-wandering” thinking and emotional reactivity.
Our approach uses Mindfulness-Integrated Cognitive Behavoiur Therapy (MiCBT), developed by Dr Bruno Cayoun (Cayoun, 2011, 2015) and Cayoun, Francis and Shires 2019.
What is MiCBT
Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (MiCBT) places a strong emphasis on developing both the ability to think about our thinking (metacognitive awareness) AND the ability to notice what is happening in our bodies when we are thinking and reacting (interoceptive awareness) . MiCBT training integrates mindfulness training (as taught in Vipassana traditions) with contemporary evidence based approaches of western psychology (CBT and cognitive neurobiology).
MiCBT is structured in 4-stages.
- Stage 1 teaches mindfulness skills to improve attention to and understanding of thoughts and body sensations.
- Stage 2 teaches how to apply these skills to the challenges of daily life helping us to tackle previously avoided situations.
- Stage 3 specifically engages the mindfulness skills in interpersonal communication and relationship issues.
- Stage 4 explores personal ethics from a mindfulness perspective and uses compassion training to develop empathic understanding of ourselves and others.
Changing unhelpful or unwanted habits becomes easier as mindfulness skills are consolidated and integrated into daily life. We learn to understand and accept the process of thinking and sensing and to have a different perspective on troublesome thoughts and reactions. As self understanding increases we also understand others better.
We provide mindfulness training for individuals, groups and organisations.