Boost Clinical Effectiveness by with Mindfulness, Compassion, and Biofeedback

Integrate Biofeedback into Your Practice

Biofeedback purpose and benefits
Assess client reactivity
Efficacy for various mental health conditions

What happens when clients try to relax

Stress & it’s relationship to pain

How biofeedback works
Biofeedback modalities
Choose the right tool for the job

Usability and portability considerations

Treatment goals

Billing & documentation considerations Limitations of research & potential risks

Practice Exercises: Using different biofeedback modalities

Respiration Biofeedback: Step-by-Step

Meditation & the breath

Assess dysfunctional breathing

Symptoms of overbreathing

Overbreathing & mental health

Biofeedback modalities for breathing regulation

Apps for use with respiration biofeedback

Overcome barriers to improvement

Practice Exercise: Respiration biofeedback

Thermal Biofeedback: Step-by-Step

Symptoms of vasoconstriction Thermal biofeedback modalities

Use thermal biofeedback to reduce level of arousal

Teach clients to regulate temperature

Integrate autogenic training & thermal biofeedback

Practice Exercise: Hand temperature

Mindfulness & Compassion: Essential

Skills for Use with Biofeedback

Strategies to improve client engagement

Promote psychological flexibility and adaptive functioning

Autogenic training: Step-by-step

Cognitively-Based compassion training

Practice Exercise: Mindfulness & compassion

Biofeedback Step-by-Step:

Integrate physical, cognitive & emotional well-being

When to use mindfulness- and compassion skills and biofeedback

Assess client nervous system reactivity Biofeedback-driven goals

“Activate” the parasympathetic nervous system Help clients explore their values
Take a strengths inventory Complementary relaxation techniques

Utilize the Cognitive Awareness Log Biofeedback-assisted body scan

Barriers to mindfulness-based and compassion techniques and biofeedback considerations with diverse populations

Practice Exercises: Mindfulness and compassion visualizations

Skills Development in Mindfulness, Biofeedback, and Compassion Practices.

Choose the best combination of mindfulness practices & biofeedback modalities

What to monitor & when

Take-home worksheet resources

Help clients transition behaviors into habits

Relapse or normal fluctuations in learning?

Client homework: Simple starting points

Practice Exercises: Use biofeedback for skills development

Attention & prevention Distraction
Thought management Awareness

Problem reconceptualization Tension reduction Self-regulation

Mindfulness, Biofeedback, and Compassion in Therapy:

Confidently Tailor for Use with Specific Disorders & Special Clinical Populations

PTSD
Anxiety and panic Depression
Chronic & acute pain Headaches
Military
Couples
Children