Mindfulness in Integrative Clinical Psychotherapy
“Awareness is not something we do — it is what we are when we stop trying to become”
Alexander Filmer-Lorch
Mindfulness in Psychotherapy
Mindfulness forms the living ground of my work as an Integrative Clinical Psychotherapist. It is not a technique or tool I apply, but an orientation of being — an ongoing practice of presence, receptivity, and compassionate awareness.
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Over decades of study, teaching, and practice in Eastern philosophy, meditation, and mindfulness-based trainings, I have come to understand mindfulness not as a method to achieve calm, but as a way of meeting life in its fullness. Within therapy, this means cultivating a capacity to stay with experience — to attend, with openness, to the layers of thought, sensation, emotion, and silence that make us who we are.
A Meeting of East and West
My approach weaves together the contemplative wisdom of Eastern traditions with the psychological depth of Western psychotherapy. The result is an integrative process — one that honours the whole person: body, mind, and consciousness.
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From this perspective, the therapeutic encounter becomes a practice of awareness itself. Each session offers an invitation to notice what is here — the subtle patterns of holding, resistance, or yearning — and to rest in the field of awareness that surrounds them. In this space, insight and transformation unfold naturally, without force.
Presence at the Heart of Healing
In therapy, mindfulness manifests as presence: the willingness to stay with what arises, to listen beyond words, and to sense the living process beneath the story. This quality of presence allows both therapist and client to meet in truth — moment by moment — beyond roles, beyond striving.
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It is from this meeting that healing and integration begin. The mind softens, the body remembers its intelligence, and awareness reconnects us to a sense of wholeness that was never lost — only obscured.
A Lifelong Enquiry
My application of mindfulness has evolved over decades of personal enquiry, professional practice, and teaching. Yet it remains, at its essence, simple: to be here, now, in awareness.
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In the therapeutic space, mindfulness is not taught — it is transmitted through presence. It is felt, rather than explained. And within that shared stillness, something greater than understanding begins to move — an unfolding that invites both therapist and client toward authenticity, compassion, and freedom.
On Reflection
Mindfulness in psychotherapy is a return — a return to being, to breath, to the quiet intelligence of awareness itself. It invites us to meet life not as a problem to solve, but as an experience to be fully lived.
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From this place, healing is not something we create — it is something we allow.
Meditation Videos
In collaboration with 'Movement For Modern Life' Alexander produced and released a variety of meditation videos covering different types of meditation, mindfulness, breath work and self-development. Get a glimpse with the video clip below.
"The universal teachings talk about a place of great significance,
known as an inconspicuous threshold where the visible and the invisible worlds meet.
In stilling practice the transitioning between these worlds is experienced as the motion of finally diving out of the ocean.
A moment of sublime liberation in which the need to grasp ceases to exist and the 'Self' is vividly remembered."
Alexander Filmer-Lorch