Asking for help is the most important step in feeling better. Let us support you to identify, explore, and remove the obstacles to your wellbeing and unleash your innate human capacity for awareness, healing and joy.
You may have come here looking for support with specific issues such as:
- Low mood with loss of energy and/or enthusiasm for normal activities
- Restlessness, worry, indecision or irritability
- Feeling that daily tasks or life itself is unmanageable
- A sense of being shut down, disconnected or lost
- Difficulty concentrating, focusing or problem-solving
- Higher stress or difficulty in intimate and casual relationships
- Difficulties maintaining self care or basic responsibilities
- Experiencing a low capacity to cope with challenges
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CMI therapists offer a safe, supportive, and accepting space to identify and explore your distress and “stuckness” – the obstacles to your well-being. CMI’s goal is to foster the development of awareness and wisdom, which unlocks our innate human capacity for healing, ease and joy.
Awareness is essential: when we don’t know what is happening in our experience – mental, physical, emotional and/or behavioral – it is easy to fall into old ways of thinking, feeling and acting that are no longer skillful, supportive or productive. With mindful awareness, we can more clearly see unskillful or distressing thoughts, feelings and/or behavior. We can then work to change them for greater resilience, flexibility, and peace.
CMI’s goal is to foster the development of awareness and wisdom, which unlocks our innate human capacity for healing, ease and joy.
CMI’s Therapy Approach
CMI’s approach is firmly rooted in each therapist’s personal practice of mindfulness; the deep exploration of our own human experience…informs our work as clinicians.
CMI’s approach to therapy is firmly rooted in each therapist’s personal practice of mindfulness; the deep exploration of our own human experience (our bodies, minds and hearts) informs our work as clinicians. Mindfulness enters the therapeutic work as appropriate to client needs and challenges. While mindfulness tools and techniques are not always explicitly brought into session, the mindfulness framework supports each client’s development of awareness, understanding, and wisdom.
CMI’s approach is also strongly influenced by existential and person-centered therapeutic approaches, each of which powerfully inform the dynamic of the therapeutic relationship. Empathetic and unconditional acceptance create space and safety to explore what is arising in the here and now; this awareness of what is happening in our minds, bodies and hearts forms the basis for transformative understanding and change.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
CMI specializes in Mindfulness-Based Therapy which addresses a wide range of mental, emotional, physical and behavioral health concerns. Mindfulness offers a set of practical, applicable tools that can be immediately applied to our challenges to support awareness, healing and growth. In particular, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is an evidence-based treatment specifically developed for depression, but applicable to anxiety and trauma and other issues. MBCT has been shown to be more effective at reducing depression relapse than other interventions or medication. Kindness and Compassion meditation skills also emerge from the mindfulness-based tradition as powerful powerful tools that can support our well-being.
With a vast array of potential techniques, we work with our clients to find the most supportive techniques for each individual.
Mindfulness offers a set of practical, applicable tools that can be immediately applied to our challenges to support healing and growth. We work with clients to find the most supportive techniques for each individual.
Individual Therapy for Adults
In the therapeutic relationship, we build awareness of both the unhelpful patterns of mind, heart or behavior that keep us stuck, and also identify the obstacles we are unaware of, “shining the light of awareness” on the things we’d like to change.
CMI’s goal is to join clients in the development of a safe, supportive space where all of the challenges and joys of human life can be shared, accepted and used as foundation for change. This relational approach allows for new ways of interacting with others and the world around us.
In the therapeutic relationship, we build awareness of both the unhelpful patterns of mind, heart or behavior that we already see keep us stuck, and also identify the obstacles we are unaware of, “shining the light of awareness” on the things we’d like to change. When we are aware of what’s happening in each moment – our thoughts, feelings, sensations, and behavior – we are more able to respond rather than react to the challenges we face. Moving out of automatic reactivity to choiceful responsivity supports greater ease and wellbeing in our lives.
Group Therapy
CMI also offers mindfulness groups that support growth, development and change in an interpersonal context. Group participants have an opportunity to share their experience with others and be witnessed as well as learn from others’ experience as a support for new understanding. When we hear the experiences of others who share our challenges, we have a chance to gain deeper wisdom. These groups are based on the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) systems developed for stress management and the treatment of depression and anxiety.
When we hear the experiences of others who share our challenges, we have an opportunity to gain deeper wisdom.
Examples of issues addressed: |
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| • Anxiety • Depression • Stress Management • Coping Skills • Mood Disorders • Thinking Disorders • Suicidal Ideation • Trauma and PTSD • Life Transitions • Relationship Issues • Self Esteem |
• Sleep or Insomnia • Spirituality • Addiction • Anger Management • Behavioral Issues • Bipolar Disorder • Codependency • Divorce • Emotional Disturbance • Grief and Loss • Peer Relationships |
Fostering Awareness
CMI offers a safe, supportive, and accepting space to identify and explore your distress and “stuckness” or the obstacles to your well-being.
Awareness is essential: when we don’t know what is happening in our experience – mental, physical, emotional and/or behavioral – it is easy to fall into old ways of thinking, feeling and acting that are no longer skillful, supportive or productive. With mindful awareness, we can more clearly see unskillful or distressing thoughts, feelings and/or behavior. We can work to change them for greater resilience, flexibility, and peace.
Explore Sensations, Thoughts and Emotions in the Field of Awareness
About lead therapist Jonas Batt, MA, LMHC:
My work as a therapist is the culmination of a 20+ year effort to better understand myself, others and the world around me. In my 20s, due to various causes and conditions, I found myself struggling with depression, anxiety, substance misuse, physical pain and dysfunctional relationships. I needed to do something different.
I started to practice yoga in an effort to better manage physical pain. This first taste of awareness brought a previously unknown recognition of the experience of my body and the power of the mind/body connection. At the same time, I read a book called, Meditation: An 8- Point Program by meditation teacher Eknath Easwaran and a classic exposition of mindfulness by modern mindfulness pioneer Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever you Go There You Are.
Within a few months, the synergy of these new strategies and practices had profoundly shifted the course of my life; experiences in the course of meditation utterly transformed my understanding of myself and the world around me. A deep and powerful recognition that I wanted to serve others, teach the skills that had given me hope, and support the kind of deep change that I had experienced emerged amidst this growing wisdom.
That profound shift marked the beginning twenty years of self-exploration, self-development and intensive education to develop the skills required to meet the needs of the people I work with.
Options and Pricing
20 Minute Consultation
50 Minute Private Session
Not interested in therapy, but looking for mindfulness and/or meditation training?
CMI specializes in Mindfulness-Based Therapy but also provides individualized 1-1 mindfulness training and coaching. With less emphasis on traditional therapy-oriented mental health interventions (i.e., the treatment of acute anxiety, depression, trauma or other challenges that are creating significant distress or limiting current function), 1-1 mindfulness training/coaching is focused on the development of mindfulness skills as a way to manage stress, develop the mind, enhance our lives and unlock greater wellbeing. With the support of a CMI teacher with over 20+ years of mindfulness practice experience, clients are able to learn, develop, and strengthen a set of tools that become a personal mindfulness practice which can support less stress and greater wellbeing.
CMI’s Difference
CMI’s expertise in the application of mindfulness in therapy gives our clients tools and techniques that support growing awareness outside of the therapy hour. This growing understanding then enhances the work we do together. We meet clients where they are and offer specific tools to apply in daily life. With the support of mindful awareness, we foster increasing self-efficacy to face any challenges that come our way; the cultivation of balance and resilience supports greater wellbeing, peace and joy in our lives.
Our office in the Madison Valley neighborhood of Seattle, WA
2711 E Madison St, Seattle, WA 98112
Mindfulness therapy and training space located in Seattle’s Madison Valley neighborhood
CMI’s Clients
