“Mindfulness Doesn’t Work for Me:” Teaching it Differently

Thomas Zimmerman, Ms.Ed., LPCC, offers EMDR Foundational Training in Cleveland, Ohio, and online. We can also train your whole agency. See: http://EMDRCleveland.com "Many approaches [to mindfulness] throw the client into the deep end of the present, the body, or noticing without much preparation or guidance as though they are running every client through the same mindfulness machine. How we approach a client system with severe trauma needs to be different than how we approach a system that is relatively healthy. Our interventions should match the client we are working with. So, maybe the problem isn’t that many clients simply can’t do mindfulness, maybe they can’t do it the way we have been teaching it."