Live with Greater Presence, Confidence, Clarity and Compassion
Mindfulness coaching offers a way to bring more awareness, intention, focused attention and compassion into your daily life. Whether you want to shift a specific habit, explore a challenging life transition, deepen your meditation practice, or simply feel more grounded and at ease, mindfulness coaching offers a supportive space for growth.
Unlike therapy, which is focused on diagnosis and treatment, coaching centers on personal growth, expanding self-awareness, and the everyday application of mindfulness in your life. It’s also about learning to relate differently to your thoughts, emotions and patterns so you can live with greater presence, freedom and choice.
Because coaching sessions are offered online, you can work with me no matter where you live. Together, we explore both broad questions—such as how to live with more meaning, joy, or balance—and specific intentions, like changing a habit that no longer serves you or bringing mindfulness into your relationships, work or health.
Mindful Coaching as a Path of Change
Mindfulness isn’t only something we practice on a cushion. Rather, it’s something that we can practice in every moment of every day that helps us meet life exactly as it is.
In mindfulness coaching sessions, you have space to slow down, reflect, and explore what matters most to you. Together, we’ll work with both the challenges and the possibilities in your life, using mindfulness as the foundation for growth and transformation.
Sessions are personalized and based on what you need at the moment; however, they often include a blend of guided practices, inquiry, and thoughtful conversation. Depending on what is arising, I might invite you to pause and notice what is happening in your body, explore a thought pattern that keeps resurfacing, or bring gentle attention to a habit you’d like to change. Each session is tailored to your needs, and you’ll leave with practical ways to bring mindfulness into your daily life.
Through mindfulness coaching, you can:
Learn how to respond rather than react when you feel stressed, anxious, or overwhelmed
Explore habits or patterns that no longer serve you, and begin shifting them with awareness
Cultivate presence in everyday activities—eating, walking, working, or listening
Deepen your ability to notice and soothe your nervous system when you feel triggered
Strengthen self-compassion and befriend and ease the voice of the inner critic
Bring mindfulness into relationships, communication, and conflict
Create intentional pauses throughout your day that anchor you into the moment
Develop a toolkit of mindfulness practices—meditation, breath awareness, body scans, journaling prompts—that you can return to anytime
At its essence, our work together is about fostering a spacious, compassionate relationship with yourself and your life that incorporates the three pillars of mindfulness—intention, attention and attitude. With practice, living mindfulfully begins to become more of your natural state, with its effects rippling outward. When we work on ourselves, our shifts in perspective and behavior often have a positive impact on the people in our worlds, while also helping us feel more and more grounded, connected, and at ease.
The Role of MBCT in Mindfulness Coaching
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) provides a research-based structure for changing your relationship with challenging thoughts and moods. Rather than trying to push difficult experiences away, MBCT helps you notice what’s arising with curiosity, step out of old patterns, and respond with more spaciousness and resilience. These practices—mindfulness of breath and body, gentle movement, and cognitive reframing—offer practical tools that support lasting change.
I have witnessed firsthand, both personally and professionally, the profound impact of MBCT. In my own life, MBCT practices have offered me a way to meet difficulty with more compassion and less reactivity. In my decades of work as a therapist and facilitator, I’ve seen clients shift from feeling trapped in cycles of anxiety, stress and low mood to discovering a greater sense of freedom, confidence, and possibility.
When blended into coaching, MBCT becomes a practical and empowering framework. It doesn’t ask you to deny or resist what you’re experiencing. Instead, it gives you tools and skills to relate differently to your thoughts, emotions and sensations.
A Little About Me
For many decades now, I’ve dedicated my professional and personal life to exploring how mindfulness, meditation, compassion and psychology can help us live with greater ease and meaning. Along with working as a mindfulness coach, I am also a seasoned therapist and a lifelong meditator who blends depth with accessibility and wisdom with warmth.
My approach is rooted in Buddhist psychology, mindfulness meditation and neuroscience, as well as grounded in the practical tools of coaching. I’ve trained extensively in mindfulness with teachers like Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, and I am also a Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher through Brown University’s Mindfulness Center.
Clients often tell me they feel both supported and thoughtfully challenged in our work together. It’s important for me to create a space where you can slow down, turn inward and strengthen your inherent capacity for presence and compassion. Whether you are brand new to mindfulness or an experienced meditator, we work collaboratively to enhance your life through the daily application of mindfulness and develop approaches and practices that feel meaningful and sustainable for you.
If you’d like to learn more about my background, training and personal journey, I invite you to visit my About page.
What’s Possible
When we merge mindfulness with coaching, real change becomes possible. This work isn’t about eliminating challenges or learning how to control every thought. Problems will still arise and there will still be times when the “monkey mind” tries to take over. However, through mindfulness coaching you can expand your capacity to meet life as it is with more steadiness, compassion and presence. And, you can develop a steady, friendly relationship with yourself, feeling confident in your ability to feel securely connected to your Buddha nature—the inherent goodness that lives within you and us all.
Through mindfulness coaching, you may find yourself:
Responding to stress with more calm and less reactivity
Breaking free from old habits or patterns that no longer serve you
Feeling more grounded and resilient, even in uncertain times
Cultivating self-compassion and softening the voice of the inner critic
Bringing more presence into relationships and communication
Creating space for joy, meaning, and ease in your daily life
Trusting yourself more deeply and listening to your inner wisdom
Let’s Connect
If you’re curious about how this work could support you—whether you’re hoping to shift a specific habit, bring more mindfulness into your daily routine, or simply feel more grounded—let’s connect.
I offer a free 15-minute consultation to explore your goals, answer your questions, and see if this feels like the right fit. You can call me at 203-482-2402 or email karen@drkarenwalant.com to schedule a time to connect. I look forward to meeting you.