Background
Hello and welcome, I hope you find this information about my background helpful.
I was trained in Australia and the UK, I am an experienced Psychological Counsellor, (MBACP) Meditation Teacher, and registered Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher with University of Massachusetts Medical School. I am a member of the Swiss MBSR Association.
My first experience of meditation was in 1991, and since 1997 I have been practicing meditation daily to ground my own inner resources for well-being. The clear awareness and emotional balance that it encourages have been the cornerstone to my own life and work. Over the past twenty years and throughout my work and studies, I have also been practicing meditation and attending Tibetan Buddhist teachings.
Consequently, my training and experience span both Eastern and Western perspectives on psychology and I draw upon these influences to help guide the therapeutic process and create a more powerful awareness of the benefits of mindfulness.
I began my career in counselling in Australia at the Petrea King Quest for Life Centre for people with terminal illnesses. This is where I was formally introduced to incorporating meditation in processing life difficulties and uncertainties.
For three years, I was based in London where she worked at Guy’s Hospital, the Awareness Centre and for the children’s helpline Get Connected. In 2008 I came to Geneva to join my husband.
In Geneva, Switzerland, I have a private practice and regularly conduct public mindfulness courses and private courses for corporate, non-profit organizations and schools.
In particular, I am deeply passionate about helping others connect more authentically to themselves, others and their life as a whole.
I was trained in Australia and the UK, I am an experienced Psychological Counsellor, (MBACP) Meditation Teacher, and registered Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher with University of Massachusetts Medical School. I am a member of the Swiss MBSR Association.
My first experience of meditation was in 1991, and since 1997 I have been practicing meditation daily to ground my own inner resources for well-being. The clear awareness and emotional balance that it encourages have been the cornerstone to my own life and work. Over the past twenty years and throughout my work and studies, I have also been practicing meditation and attending Tibetan Buddhist teachings.
Consequently, my training and experience span both Eastern and Western perspectives on psychology and I draw upon these influences to help guide the therapeutic process and create a more powerful awareness of the benefits of mindfulness.
I began my career in counselling in Australia at the Petrea King Quest for Life Centre for people with terminal illnesses. This is where I was formally introduced to incorporating meditation in processing life difficulties and uncertainties.
For three years, I was based in London where she worked at Guy’s Hospital, the Awareness Centre and for the children’s helpline Get Connected. In 2008 I came to Geneva to join my husband.
In Geneva, Switzerland, I have a private practice and regularly conduct public mindfulness courses and private courses for corporate, non-profit organizations and schools.
In particular, I am deeply passionate about helping others connect more authentically to themselves, others and their life as a whole.
Qualifications
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy - Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute - Level 2: 2022
Internal Family Systems - IFS Institute - UK - Level 1: 2021
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy - Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute - Level 1: 2018
EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - EMDR Centre London 2017
.b Foundations Mindfulness Curriculum - Mindfulness in Schools Project London 2014
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer – Bangor University 2011
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher – University of Massachusetts Medical School 2010
Cultivating Emotional Balance – Santa Barbara Institute of Consciousness 2009
Masters in Counselling and Psychotherapy – University of Wales 2008
Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling – Australian College of Applied Psychology 2004
BA in Philosophy and Psychology – Griffith University Australia 2000
Internal Family Systems - IFS Institute - UK - Level 1: 2021
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy - Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute - Level 1: 2018
EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - EMDR Centre London 2017
.b Foundations Mindfulness Curriculum - Mindfulness in Schools Project London 2014
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer – Bangor University 2011
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher – University of Massachusetts Medical School 2010
Cultivating Emotional Balance – Santa Barbara Institute of Consciousness 2009
Masters in Counselling and Psychotherapy – University of Wales 2008
Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling – Australian College of Applied Psychology 2004
BA in Philosophy and Psychology – Griffith University Australia 2000
Ongoing Trainings
Family Constellations Workshops - Yishai Gaster, Svagito Liebermeister and Alun Reynolds, since 2005
Imago Therapy - Dr Kalanit Ben-Ari Chair Imago UK - 2016
Imago Therapy - Dr Kalanit Ben-Ari Chair Imago UK - 2016
Associations
Member of Swiss Association for Counselling (SGfB)
MBACP British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Member of The MBSR Association Switzerland
Registered “counselor / relation d’aide” in the canton of Geneva
MBACP British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Member of The MBSR Association Switzerland
Registered “counselor / relation d’aide” in the canton of Geneva
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‘This course helped me through a very difficult time. My relationships with people in my personal life and work have been transformed –in essence I feel much more at ease with myself. And I sleep much better!”
Lauren, 2011
Lauren, 2011