Mindful Rehab™
The Mindful Rehab™ Method is our comprehensive approach to mental health therapy that supports your wellness and success.
Focused on moving you from Default to Deliberate, we work with you to understand your current Default, shift unhelpful patterns, and achieve growth.
Key Concepts:
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Default to Deliberate
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Intentional Growth
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Dysfunction Cycles
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Resilience Cycles
The Mindful Rehab™ therapeutic method helps you achieve Intentional Growth, which we know is enabled by becoming more deliberate in our approach, navigating dysfunction, and enabling resilience.
Why Mindful Rehab?
Default to Deliberate
Most people regularly function in their Default Mode. It's not inherently bad or wrong, often looking like autopilot, preoccupation, or defensive behaviours. While the Default Mode is adapted to help us, it takes us out of our higher values and can interfere with our big picture goals. The Default Mode makes it hard to "see the forest for the trees".
Moving to Deliberate is about recognizing when & where Default is no longer serving us, and making intentional choices. Mindfulness practices develop the skills and abilities to shift from Default to Deliberate.
Intentional Growth
How we approach ourselves, others, and situations
When something comes easily, we tend to take it for granted. Just as all skills develop with time and effort, intentional growth happens as we deliberately approach discomfort and challenge. Not too fast, and in tune with personal needs. This entails knowing how to navigate our inner thoughts and feelings alongside external situations, responsibilities, relationships, and pursuits.
Growth stalls when situations or feelings are overwhelming, unyielding, or persistent. High stress and hardship may slow, stall, or stop progress; exerting more effort can even get us more stuck. Slowing down to be deliberate and responsive is essential.
Staying present and in-tune enables us to flexibly move between preparation and progression, preventing us from getting stuck or off course. As we face difficult situations, experiences, and feelings, it's essential we prepare for a successful approach that enables progress.
Dysfunction Cycles
When mental health, the nervous system, and regular activity are compromised, we can all get caught up in a downward spiral. As our abilities to be present, hold inner balance, and stay active are compromised, we risk getting stuck in an unhealthy Default mode that risks progression to Dysfunction Cycles.
Dysfunction Cycles are negative interaction patterns of biopsychosocial factors, referred to as disconnection, dysregulation, and dysfunction. These patterns exacerbate wellness issues and how people participate in their lives.
The trick with Dysfunction Cycles is to understand them. From there, we can shift unhelpful patterns and strengthen the more sustainable, more supportive Resilience Cycles.
Resilience Cycles
When we are mindful of ourselves, others, and our activities, we shift into the Deliberate Mode where we develop new skills and strategies for health and wellness.
Resilience Cycles are helpful interaction patterns of biopsychosocial factors. They strengthen our baseline wellness to stay intentional and endure difficulty without compromising health or function.
As we develop and strengthen Resilience Cycles we sustain personal growth, establish lasting wellness, and thrive in our meaningful pursuits.
Why This Works
The Mindful Rehab™ Method has been developed through over ten years of specialized mental health care, and is currently being used to help people of all walks over life - student and professionals experiencing burnout, tradespeople returning to work after traumatic psychological injury, busy parents putting focus on their own health, and more.
If you think Mindful Rehab might be a fit for you, we encourage you to look through our team of expert therapists and book a free consultation call.
Backed by Neuro-Science, Proven in Practice
Ridder, D.D., Adhia, D., & Vanneste, S. (2021). The anatomy of pain and suffering in the brain and its clinical implications. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 130.
Shows distinct brain pathways involved in pain and suffering: pain is a physical sensation, while suffering comes from how the brain processes pain through emotions, stress, and meaning. Treating the whole nervous system, mind and body, reduces distress and supports the natural ability to regulate pain and stress.
Tang, Y.Y., Holzel, B.K., & Posner, M.I. (2015). The neuroscience of mindfulness meditation. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 16(4).
Details how mindful practices lead to real changes in brain areas involved in attention, emotion regulation, stress, and self-awareness. These brain changes help improve mental health, reduce stress and pain, and support recovery by strengthening the brain’s ability to regulate thoughts, emotions, and body responses.
Dalgleish, T., Black, M., Johnston, D., & Bevan, A. (2020). Transdiagnostic approaches to mental health problems: current status and Future Directions. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 88.
Argues that many mental health challenges share underlying biopsychosocial processes, such as how we respond to stress, pain, and trauma, rather than fitting into strict diagnoses. Treating these underlying processes supports a holistic, science-based approach that better addresses mental health, pain, and trauma.
