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MiCBT Group for Clients - Gold Coast, QLD

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -1100

An 8-week group therapy course to help you deal with Stress, Anxiety and Depression

What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness involves paying attention to each event experienced in the present moment within our body and mind, with a non-judgmental, non-reactive and accepting attitude. In learning to be mindful, we can begin to counter many of our everyday sufferings such as stress, anxiety and depression because we are learning to experience events in a more impersonal, detached and acceptable way.

There is a growing number of therapy approaches that incorporate mindfulness training. Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (MiCBT) is one of these approaches. It offers a practical set of evidence-based techniques derived from mindfulness training together with principles of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to address a broad range of psychological disorders and general stress conditions.

This 8-week group therapy, offered with 8 individual supplemental sessions, will follow the principles of MiCBT and involve active mindfulness training as well as psychological interventions. It will be offered to adults experiencing stress, anxiety or depression by a clinical psychologist, Mikako Naito, at her Tugun clinic on the Gold Coast. The number of participants will be limited to 8. Child minding service can be arranged on site for a fee.

Cost:

Bulk billing for both group and individual sessions ($30 per session if without a GP Mental Health Care Plan)
A one-off payment of $40 to cover the cost of the two mindfulness training CDs used for this program

Days and Time:

Group sessions: 10.15 am - 12.15 pm 8 Tuesdays beginning on 7 February 2012
Individual supplemental sessions: 8 Thursdays or Fridays beginning in the same week (by appointment)

Enquiry / Application: Please contact Mikako at (07) 5559 5391 or mikako.naito@bigpond.com to make an appointment for a pre-group assessment session.

Enrol Now for MiCBT Training and Courses 2012!

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -1100

Our training calendar for 2012 is finalised.....Places are limited and early registration is advised to avoid disappointment.

All of our courses can be taken independently or as part of the Voc. Graduate Diploma of MiCBT.

Introductory Workshop - April and August

8-week Foundation Course - April and August

8-Week Applied Course - July

Intensive Residential 5-day Retreat - March and November

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MiCBT Institute Newsletter: Vol 2.4 August 2011

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -1100

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I hope this finds you well and trust you will appreciate reading the bimonthly newsletter of the MiCBT Institute. I welcome everyone who recently attended a course, workshop or master class in MiCBT and joined the institute’s Affiliate Membership. I hope that all of you will find the information and the peer-reviewed article linked to the August newsletter interesting and informative (click on link to download). Please do not hesitate to send us your comments.

Warm regards,

Bruno Cayoun
Director

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Snapshot: Glenn Bilsborrow

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -1100

Psychology has always been a fascination for me but we didn't really find each other properly until later in my life. When I left school I was going to be a mechanic! But my employer told me that he had decided not to take on another apprentice, so that was that. Needless to say, I didn't stay there long. After a few more years working, I went to university and started studying a bachelor of arts with the intention of doing psychology. I really enjoyed anthropology and English, but found first year psychology a bit dry! Overall, it seemed too far removed from everyday life, let alone people. So I changed to business.

After completing a business degree I went to work in the real world and slowly realised that it was a world of conformity and rules. The aim was to make money and everything was about making more of it. At this time I was living and working in Sydney, Australia. I worked in various capacities such as financial planner and as an advisor to small business. So eventually, in 1991, my partner and I decided to move to Tasmania where her family was and where we could raise our two boys in a place that was a little more removed from the rat-race.

During all these years of work, I had always been interested in the journey of self-understanding as well. In my early 20s I discovered self help books teaching such things as Transactional Analysis and Gestalt Therapy. I read as many books as I could find. I wanted to know about myself and my role in this world. I went to see therapists. The first one was good. The second was not as good. I wasn’t sure that therapists were able to offer anything substantial and I was concerned that it perhaps wasn’t really a 'science'. Maybe we just turn out to be who we were going to be despite 'psychology'?

But I was a scientist at heart, and business and science are worlds apart. So, one day I decided to go back to psychology. I had decided by this time that psychology did have something to offer when done properly. I wanted to do it properly. I restarted the arts degree part-time and got into honours at the University of Tasmania. I spent a few years working on my Doctorate and became a registered psychologist

My philosophy in life had always been that of a generalist. I wanted to gather knowledge about a wide range of things and apply that to my vocation, whatever that was. Being a psychologist was a way of utilising that experience; use my own journey and the variety of things I learned in life, and at university, to help those who are in need. So I became a specialist, which now actually sits well. To that role I bring all the differing perspectives of living and working in various places. Since working as a psychologist, I have felt fulfilled and happy. There is not a day that goes by where I don't feel grateful for my life. I used to worry that one day it would all go pear-shaped and not last. But over time I learned to trust that it wouldn't. Of course there have been bad times. But overall, life has really been good to me.

In all those early years where I was learning about life and myself, funnily enough, I was never drawn into mindfulness in a formal way. Back in the 80s I read a book called "The relaxation response" and I was intrigued by how meditation affected the mind and body. I also read and absorbed books on visualisation and many other techniques that helped to still the mind. I applied these to my life in a casual way. One outlined a technique that I tried and found affected me profoundly. It started off small, only a slight change. Over time, as I practiced it, I was able to ‘hold’ this sensation of letting go. I had learned to be equanimous for short periods in a focussed way by letting go of an attachment to sensations in the body. I still use it and it led me to have an affinity later with the practice of mindfulness. I also learned a long time ago, of the impermanence of emotion and the notion that we are often rooted in the present by emotion, but have to also have an eye to the fact that this will change.

I met Bruno in 2000 and was struck by his calm, his dedication and the clarity he brought to things. He wanted me to understand mindfulness in a deeper way by practice. His view was that if you have found something this good, you want others you care about to also benefit from it. I resisted. “What was the point of working hard on something designed to make you happier in your life when you are already happy?” I thought. Over time, we had chats about his methods and I could see a definite advantage in utilising a more pervasive mindfulness approach with clients.

I heard others, including Jon Kabat-Zinn, talking about the benefits of mindfulness and I had read much on it. So I began to practice it more formally. Since then, it has been imbedded in my work with clients. What I like about this approach is that it is experiential. It is one's own experience and not that of another who may be trying to help you change your understanding of what you experience. It asks you to do it to yourself, without a 'middle man'. In MiCBT, mindfulness is not on the periphery, it is central. When I thought about it, I realised that traditional CBT is often simply trying to put a wedge between someone and their troublesome thoughts. Why not start deeper; why not work on it yourself through the practice of mindfulness? Above all, being mindful really does impact on what you bring to therapy. I think Bruno has truly brought mindfulness to psychotherapy in a unique and powerful way and I am grateful for his wisdom.

MIndfulness in Meditation and Everyday Life

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -1100

Venue: Bruny Island Community Health Centre. 16 School Rd, Alonnah

Course Dates: Preliminary interview on 26th July. The course runs from 23 August to 11 October 2011. 11am to 2 pm, including a light lunch.

The last session will be Tuesday December 13.

Please book on 62931143 at Bruny Island Community Health Centre.

Cost: $5 for lunch per session. You will also need to purchase two CDs at $10 each for your daily practice.

Tutor: Dr Peter Davies

This 8-week course is based on the one developed by Dr Bruno Cayoun, an internationally recognised Psychologist and Mindfulness practitioner, who regularly teaches in Australia and abroad.

For further information please contact Peter Davies: Email pfreemandavies@gmail.com and mobile 0417528375 after June 18

What does a Mindfulness course involve?

Mindfulness is a mental state that is experienced as a heightened awareness of our senses in the present moment, free from judgement, reactivity and identification to the experience. As a training method, mindfulness requires paying attention in a particular way, on purpose, from moment to moment, with unconditional acceptance of the current experience. In a Mindfulness course, participants meet together as a class with an instructor for 8 weekly 2-hour classes, with an additional one half-day session 2 months after the 8th session.

The skill of mindfulness is taught through formal and informal mindfulness practices. Formal mindfulness meditation practices include mindfulness of breath, and body-scanning meditation, which help regulate attention and emotion. Informal mindfulness meditation practice involves integrating mindfulness into everyday life. In each class, participants have an opportunity to talk about their experience of the home practices, the obstacles that inevitably arise, and how to deal with them skillfully. Each class is organized around a theme that is explored through mindfulness practice, group inquiry and other relevant exercises.

As mindfulness training is primarily experiential in nature, the main ‘work’ of the course is done at home between classes, using CDs with guided meditations that support participants developing practice outside of class. This requires devoting approximately 30 minutes twice each day to home practice. In many ways this commitment to daily practice is the most important aspect of the course. It is through personal experiencing of mindfulness that we come to understand the possibilities it opens for us in our daily lives.

Over the eight weeks of the program, the practices help you to:

become familiar with the workings of your mind
notice the times when you are at risk of getting caught in old habits of mind that re-activate downward mood spirals
explore ways of releasing yourself from those old and unhelpful habits
get in touch with a different way of knowing yourself and the world
notice small beauties and pleasures in the world around you instead of living in your head
be kind to yourself instead of wishing things were different, or driving yourself to meet impossible goals
improve your sense of self-worth
accept yourself as you are, rather than judging or blaming yourself
decrease stress and gain some peace of mind
be able to exercise greater choice confidently in life.

Effects of developing mindfulness include:

Lasting decreases in physical and psychological symptoms
An increased ability to relax
Reductions in pain levels and an enhanced ability to cope with pain that may not go away
Greater energy and enthusiasm for life
Improved self-esteem
An ability to cope more effectively with both short and long-term stressful situations
Enhanced interpersonal relationships
Increased ability to manage anxiety and depression and/or low mood
Reduced tension
Better sleep
Greater sense of meaning and purpose in life

Snapshot: Marise Fallon

Sun, 29 May 2011 00:00:00 -1100

I never knew what I wanted to do when I left school and I spent many hours thinking about it while growing up in Brisbane, never coming to a decision that lasted more than a couple of months. When I did finish year 12 in 2001 at the last minute I decided to sign up for a Bachelor of Psychological Science at UQ. It felt like the course chose me, without much conscious thought of my own. I ended up loving studying psychology and I was also lucky enough to be able to combine it with studies in Buddhism (pursuing an interest in Buddhism and Buddhist philosophy that began as a student in high school), meditation in eastern religions and philosophy during the first couple of years.

I have always felt that I have been extremely lucky in life and, wanting to give back to a world that I loved, I always had a strong desire to help others. Studying psychology seemed to fit well with this. I graduated in 2006 and, wanting a break from study, spent three years working in an office supporting computer systems. Throughout my undergraduate study and during these years working afterwards, I spent 6 months travelling through south-east Asia, worked on yachts in the Whitsundays for a few months and drove/camped around the coastline of Australia on another amazing trip. During these years I realised how much I loved meeting learning from people. I also found myself drawn to the pursuit of activities that pulled me into the present moment: snorkelling and scuba diving, rock climbing and skydiving.

When I moved to Tasmania in February 2010 to begin a Masters in Clinical Psychology at UTAS I didn’t know much about mindfulness. I remember it being mentioned only once in my undergraduate course. I had heard about it through friends working in psychology in Brisbane and was intrigued to find out more. As I sat on my first day at UTAS, listening to potential supervisors for the masters theses talk about their research interests, I distinctly remember being excited to hear about Dr Bruno Cayoun’s interest in mindfulness and all things “east meets west”. Over the next week I read whatever I could find on mindfulness and did what I could to convince the uni to let Bruno be my supervisor. I was very happy when I found out this had worked.

Bruno introduced me to MiCBT and, as I began to develop a thesis project looking into mindfulness, I also began my own daily meditation. Bruno’s guidance, with such wisdom and patience, through both of these endeavours has been invaluable. I slowly plodded along with the daily meditation, being one of Bruno’s worst students at times I’m sure, struggling to find a balance between my strong desire to do the mediation and my strong desire to do anything else but. The meditation has now become an integral part of my life, though, and while I still have bad weeks sometimes, I keep coming back to it. I have loved witnessing the gradual change in the way I experience each moment of each day. My practise has already taught me so much about myself - my emotions, my thoughts and my place amongst the world - and I know this is only the very beginning of a long journey of awakening. Mindfulness has also been an invaluable tool for dealing with the stresses of being back at university, which have included the research project I’ve been working on.

On top of coursework and placements, my research has required me to teach 25 mindfulness courses (some last year and some this year). My study investigates the results for those completing different types of 8-week mindfulness courses: everyday mindfulness (informal mindfulness only); mindfulness of breath only; and body scan. Running these courses has been an amazing experience and I feel blessed to have been able to offer this opportunity to so many in the community. While I have not yet analysed any data regarding the differences in participant outcomes for each type of course, I know that many benefited regardless of the course completed. Running these courses, along with my own practice of mindfulness, has convinced me of the value of these techniques. I am so grateful to have been able to learn these skills for my own life and also to have the skills to be able to teach mindfulness to my clients when I finally become a practicing psychologist. (Thanks Bruno.)

Marise Fallon, BSc.
Master Student (Clinical Psychology)
University of Tasmania

Contact: mlfallon@postoffice.utas.edu.au

Mindfulness-integrated CBT: Principles and Practice

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -1100

Mindfulness-integrated CBT: Principles and Practice (Wiley-Blackwell) represents the first set of general principles and practical guidelines for the integration of mindfulness meditation with well-documented and newly developed CBT techniques to address a broad range of psychological dysfunctions.

The first book to provide a strong rationale and general guidelines for the implementation of mindfulness meditation integrated with CBT for a wide range of psychological difficulties
Incorporates ancient Buddhist concepts of how the mind works, while remaining firmly grounded in well-documented cognitive and behavioural principles
Provides new insights into established understanding of conditioning principles
Includes a comprehensive list of frequently asked questions, week-by-week instructions for professionals to facilitate application of the therapy, along with case examples and the inspiring stories of former clients.

Click here for more information

Snapshot: Tess Huffam

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -1100

Mindfulness practice has revolutionised my life. I started daily mindfulness practice three years ago to assist me to manage my own emotional vulnerability and now I am inspired to share the inherent skill with others.

I work part time as a Credentialed Diabetes Educator and Community Health Nurse in Atherton, Australia’s Far North Queensland. I enjoy this work. Among other things, I assist clients with lifestyle change including increasing physical activity, healthy eating and weight reduction. My aim is for people to feel empowered while making lifestyle changes of their choice. Most of the clients I see report having stress, anxiety or depression which impacts negatively on their quality of life.

For me, I start each day with a 30 minute formal mindfulness meditation practice and a 45 – 60 minute local rainforest walk (with my Kelpie, Max). My other main passion is Tai Chi, which I enjoy practicing in the afternoons and occasionally teaching. I also play tennis usually weekly with a friend. Also, for the last 18 months I have been treasurer of our local outrigger canoe club but earlier this month I resigned from this position to make time to commence work as a private diabetes educator.

My decision to start private practice as a diabetes educator was largely influenced by my desire to assist people with diabetes to reduce stress. While working privately, I will teach both MiCBT and Tai Chi groups. I have been upskilling in motivational interviewing and counselling skills to assist in my role.

The reason I am so passionate about mindfulness, is the impact that it has had on my own life. I have a diagnosis of Bipolar 1 Disorder. I am considered to be ‘high functioning’, I guess because I continue to enjoy work, close friendships and a happy marriage. Due to my reasonably ‘normal’ external life, I have been able to live somewhat in denial of my emotional vulnerability. However, before starting Mindfulness practice, I lived with constant anxiety and with slight increases in stress, insomnia became a concern. Mood swings came seemingly from nowhere, that is, with no relationship to current life circumstances. Still, for the most part, I found it difficult to accept the diagnosis of bipolar disorder. I told few people that I had bipolar disorder, I feared their disapproval. Furthermore, I was ashamed of this aspect of myself which I struggled to understand. My greatest fear was that I would very unexpectedly, inexplicably become unwell and need hospitalisation and heavy medicating... again.

Mindfulness has changed everything. The first noticeable change (within two weeks of commencing practice) was my sleep pattern. I started to fall to sleep quickly and then before long I could sleep for the entire night without waking. A sound night’s sleep was like bliss to me. I was soon able to do away with my medication crutches, like Valerian and my emergency back stop, Temazepam.

Another major difference with practicing mindfulness has been reducing chronic anxiety and managing strong emotions. Learning MiCBT has also helped me to become more assertive. I have surprised myself on numerous occasions by my ability to calmly advocate for my own needs and the needs of others.

Still, there have been more changes since commencing mindfulness practice. Unexplainable mood swings have reduced and are apparently eliminated. I have come to believe that bipolar disorder, for me, is really a condition of mindlessness. What I mean is that at some point in the past I unconsciously shut down or became emotionally numb. Ultimately, I could only experience very intense emotions; mania and depression.

While learning MiCBT with Bruno Cayoun, I remember Bruno saying “all emotions come from underlying body sensations”. I was staggered; this was a revelation to me. I started to realise how disconnected from myself I had been for a very long time. Now through mindfulness practice, all my emotions are linked to an associated event, thought and body sensation. My emotions are also much less intense and therefore more manageable.

Self-awareness through mindfulness meditation has allowed me greater understanding of who I am and what I value. I highly value finding inner balance, harmony, accepting who I am and being true to this. I am no longer ashamed of living with bipolar disorder. This condition has been a valuable teacher and motivator to live mindfully.

So, I am no longer afraid of sleepless nights, severe mood swings or actually of becoming unwell. My old mindless ways still exist and I still find myself at times operating mindlessly. However, I no longer get disappointed at being mindless, I accept and remind myself of the choices I now have. I remember Bruno’s empowering words (in relation to our thoughts), “you can become the master of the house”, and how liberating and true this notion is. Also liberating is the scientific concept of neuroplasticity.

Recently one friend and a colleague commented that I am calm, balanced and level headed. Three years ago, ‘pre-mindfulness’ training, these comments would not have applied; the opposite was more applicable. I approach life now with a new sense of self-reliance, awareness, strength and patience.

Perhaps one day I will have the opportunity to assist others living with mental illness. I would ultimately like to contribute to reducing the stigma of mental illness. I enjoy speaking publicly and would like to share my experience of living with a mental illness and the impact that mindfulness has had on my life.

I hope that my own personal challenges, personal growth and on-going commitment to mindfulness practice assist me to be an effective mindfulness teacher. I feel that helping others to be more mindful and lead a more meaningful and authentic life is an extremely valuable contribution to make. I am looking forward to my private practice growing; I have had a very positive start with support of many local GPs (US=MDs). I will be commencing MiCBT classes soon.

I would like to thank Bruno Cayoun for both teaching me MiCBT and allowing me to share my story. If you would like to contact me, I would be happy to hear from you. Please contact me via email at tess@hconnections.com.au

Managing Your Emotions: Re-Train Your Brain

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -1100

Where: Redland Community Centre Inc.,
29 Loraine St, Capalaba, Qld 4157.
Ph 07 3245 2117

Format: 8 group sessions, each 3 hours incl. a tea break

Facilitator: Patrea O'Donoghue, MPsych, MAPS

Cost: $455 includes the 8 group sessions, all materials, 2 CDs with guided instructions, and light refreshments

Bookings: 07 3245 2117 or 07 3472 1361

This 8-week course is aimed at helping people better understand and manage difficult emotional experiences such as when feeling stressed, anxious, sad, depressed or angry. The course is based on Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (MiCBT), a treatment approach developed by Bruno Cayoun, DPSych, clinical psychologist.

MiCBT is an approach that combines both mindfulness and the principles of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT). During this course, participants will learn a variety of mindfulness-based skills and approaches that encourage them to focus on their breathing and their body, rather than the thoughts that are likely triggering reactive behaviours and escalating the emotions. The course also looks at how other people and our emotions interact with one another and what we can do about that.

Mindfulness approaches have been demonstrated by researchers to be very helpful for people in better managing emotions and stress, improving depressed moods by helping avoid rumination, improving concentration, and generally result in feeling a greater sense of satisfaction with one's own life.

Term 1: 8 February - 28 March 2012
Time: 6.30-9.30pm
Free pre-course information session 1/2/12 from 6.30-8pm

Term 2: 2 May - 20 June 2012
Time: 9.00-12.00noon
Free pre-course information session 18/4/12 from 11.00-12.30pm

Term 3: to be advised

Term 4: 17 October - 5 December 2012
Time: 6.30-9.30pm
Free pre-course information session 10/10/12 from 6.30-8pm

Snapshot: Mikako Naito

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -1100

I stumbled into meditation quite by accident when I was 35. I had just broken up with a lawyer boyfriend who I thought was my knight in shining armour, only a year after I had divorced my first husband. It was a turbulent period. I probably cried more during this time than any other time in my life. And I didn’t just cry in those days. When I got upset, I would cry, scream and vehemently attack my partner with the nastiest words. It was like my anger, fear and sorrow weren’t mine at all but some powerful thing from outer space that would suddenly hijack my consciousness and drive my body to do all the deeds.

On that day I discovered meditation, I was lying on my bed wailing helplessly because I didn’t know what else to do as the memories of my lawyer boyfriend came and went. I wailed for what seemed like all morning and then stopped. I was simply exhausted. I closed my eyes and started to do some deep breathing, something my first husband had taught me but I never practised. Suddenly, I noticed myself free from the anguish – so completely free that it was as though I was floating far above the problems and questions which I was sure were still unresolved. I soaked up the blissful serenity, and when I opened my eyes I cried – because I then saw hope.

Looking back, the experience was probably closer to dissociation than meditation. But I thought I had found enlightenment and enthusiastically began following a path of self-discovery. I continued practising meditation every day. I read many popular psychology books and saw psychotherapists. I wanted to know why I was like this. I wanted to know where all that intense, unwanted energy came from.

The psychotherapists I saw weren’t much help, and I decided that I could do a better job if I knew how. I enrolled myself in a clinical psychology program at a nearby university. When I studied CBT, I thought I had found the cure for myself. When I learned about borderline personality disorder, I thought there were others like me. And when I learned about Asperger syndrome, I thought I had found the explanation to how I was. I drafted detailed conceptualisations of myself and tried one CBT technique after another to ‘fix’ myself.

I resolved many of my difficulties this way. For example, I managed to distance and differentiate myself from my well-meaning but erratic mother and learned to accept myself for who I was. I slowly but steadily began leading a life which others may envy. I bought a house, fell pregnant to my architect boyfriend, married him, had a beautiful baby daughter, finished my degree, got a job, and subsequently started my private practice.

But I was keenly aware that a portion of my everyday life hadn’t changed since my most dysfunctional days. I frequently got angry and shouted at my young daughter. My anger got so intense that I wasn’t able to feel any love, compassion or remorse until much later. It got intense so quickly that I didn’t know that I was angry until after I had shouted. It terrified my daughter, and it tormented me, but no amount of CBT and meditation seemed to really help. My anger was almost always around violations of the rules I had created - to keep my house clean, to get things done on time and to do these things efficiently. To me these rules were perfectly natural, logical and necessary, but my husband and daughter failed to appreciate them. I knew that my rules were the main source of our conflicts, but I wasn’t able to let go of the rules for fear of losing my identity and sense of belonging.

I attended Bruno’s 1-day and 8-week courses without much expectation because nothing else had really worked. But I began to notice the difference after about three weeks of twice-daily MiCBT mindfulness practice. I began to detect my anger at a very early stage and to monitor its gradual increase as though it were in slow motion, which allowed me to actually ask myself the crucial questions, “Should I shout or just talk? If talk, what should I say? And how and when should I say it?” The questions I preached to my clients to ask themselves and yet was never able to do myself. In other words, a miracle has happened.

MiCBT bipolar exposure has also got me used to my anxiety, which I didn’t know I had because I avoided it so well. I now spend much less time on keeping my house clean, and instead I often manage to squeeze some fun things in a day – like going to a park or hosting an impromptu play-day after school. And this is the big part, I do it smilingly. The notion of equanimity has filtered into our family life so much that our 6-year old daughter told me the other day, “Mummy, you need to be more equanimous.”

On the second session of the 8-week course, when I told Bruno I did not have time for two mindfulness practices in a day, he gently but firmly persuaded me to get up at 5 am to do the first practice of the day. It was one of the most significant turning points in my life because it would have taken a very different path if he did not succeed then. It is my hope that I make turning points like that in others’ lives too. MiCBT has already helped many of my clients, some of whom have shown dramatic improvement. I am committed to continue learning and growing as a MiCBT practitioner – through the regular meetings with my fellow MiCBT course graduates on the Gold Coast, Queensland, monthly supervisions by Bruno, upcoming advanced MiCBT courses, and, of course, my daily practice.

I accept referrals of clients and I can be contacted by phone: (07) 5559 5391 or email: mikako.naito@bigpond.com