Mindfulness
What is mindfulness?
Mindfulness practice connects you to the present moment — the only time anyone ever has to perceive, learn, grow or change. When we practice present-moment awareness we become attentive to thoughts, emotions and sensations in the body, which allows for more choice, and ultimately more freedom.
Mindfulness can be practiced as a formal meditation, seated or lying down, or informally as you walk, drive, eat and move through your daily life. With practice, we're given the opportunity to adopt a curious attitude toward our relationship to stress, pain and illness — and to notice and open to moments of joy, happiness and love.
Practicing mindfulness in daily life can help us reconnect with our sense of wholeness and interconnection with everything around us. This spaciousness helps us respond to life rather than reacting automatically.
Why learn from Andrea?
Plenty of therapists mention mindfulness. I've lived it: I'm a qualified MBSR teacher (UCSD-trained) with 10+ years of Insight Meditation (Vipassana) practice and yearly multi-day silent retreats. This isn't a technique I picked up in a weekend workshop — it's the ground my whole practice stands on.
For anxious, ruminating minds especially, mindfulness is where clinical treatment deepens into a genuinely kinder relationship with yourself.
Learning mindfulness can help you:
✧Reduce stress
✧Reduce irritability, anxiety and depression
✧Improve your relationships
✧Develop resilience and inner strength
✧Cultivate compassion for self and others
✧Increase grey matter and blood flow in the brain — with positive changes in memory, aging and problem-solving
It grows self-compassion
Mindfulness offers a way of relating to ourselves with patience and understanding rather than harsh self-judgment. We learn to observe painful thoughts and feelings and simply be with them as they are. From that allowing, curiosity develops — and curiosity plants the seeds for kindness and compassion.
Four ways to practice with me
1. The 8-Week MBSR Program
Next cohort: October 15 – December 3, 2026 · Online via Zoom · $500 (sliding scale available)
The comprehensive, evidence-based foundation in mindfulness meditation and mindful hatha yoga.
2. Free Guided Meditations
Start today with a 10-Minute Body Scan, a 7-Minute Pause, or 10 Minutes of Mindful Breathing.
3. Mindfulness-Based Counselling & Coaching
One-to-one therapy where mindfulness and self-compassion hold the clinical work.
4. Individual Mindfulness Coaching
One-to-one support to build and sustain your meditation practice, after MBSR or from the very beginning.
Future courses, groups and evergreen offerings will live on this page as they launch.