Digest January 2026 – Mindfulness Therapy

Blog Highlight: Mindfulness Therapy — Finding Calm in the Present Moment

Mindfulness therapy helps individuals slow down, tune into the present moment, and respond to life with greater clarity and compassion. This therapeutic approach focuses on noticing thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations without judgment, which can reduce stress and emotional reactivity. Often integrated with CBT and DBT, mindfulness therapy is especially effective for anxiety, depression, trauma, and chronic stress—helping clients build emotional regulation and resilience over time.
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Therapist Spotlight: Chloe Blish, MS, LPC-IT

Chloe Blish is a warm, collaborative therapist who partners with clients to build insight, emotional regulation skills, and meaningful progress toward personal goals. She emphasizes a holistic approach — integrating mindfulness, CBT, strengths-based practice, and compassionate support — to help individuals navigate anxiety, depression, life transitions, and relational stress. Chloe creates a safe, encouraging therapeutic environment where clients can explore and grow at their own pace.

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Therapist Spotlight: Brianna Miller, MSE, LPC-IT

Brianna Miller is a compassionate therapist known for her supportive, client-centered approach. She works with individuals across the lifespan to foster self-awareness, strengthen coping skills, and navigate anxiety, depression, stress, and life transitions. Brianna uses mindfulness and evidence-based strategies — including CBT and strengths-based practices — to help clients find balance, build resilience, and deepen insight into patterns of thinking and behavior. Her warm, nonjudgmental style helps clients feel seen, heard, and empowered.

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Book Recommendation:“Mindfulness Journal for Mental Health,” by Elizabeth Cronin, PsyD

Stress is integral to the experience of being alive. The goal is not to eliminate stress, but to find healthy, creative ways to recognize and cope with it. Mindfulness has gained popular appeal because the field of neuroscience has consistently been able to prove how and why it works. In this book, the author takes readers through a number of practices, followed by journaling prompts. If you benefit from journaling, but sometimes feel lost by a lack of focus or structure, this is an excellent resource.

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Podcast Pick: Speaking of Psychology: How meditation can help you live a flourishing life, with Richard Davidson, PhD

Meditation practices date back thousands of years and are a part of nearly every major religion. But it’s only in the past couple of decades that researchers have begun to use the tools of modern science to explore what is happening in the brain when people meditate and how meditation might benefit our mind and body. Richard Davidson, PhD, director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin and a pioneer in the scientific study of meditation, discusses what scientists have learned and how these ancient practices can help us to flourish.

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