What is Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy?

We offer two programs at the Princeton Center for Yoga & Health: MBSR and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression (MBCT). Our programs are based on the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn and the program developed by the UMass CFM. Both Dr. Rutstein and Deborah Metzger have trained with Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression (MBCT) is a form of MBSR that includes information about depression as well as cognitive therapy-based exercises linking thinking and its resulting impact on feeling. MBCT demonstrates how participants can best work with these thoughts and feelings when depression threatens to overwhelm them and how to recognize depressive moods that can bring on negative thought patterns.