Mindfulness for Therapists

Mindfulness for Therapists presents an innovative eight-week mindfulness protocol designed to aid therapists--which may be worked through alone or in small groups * Presents the first complete mindfulness program designed to improve the personal and professional well-being and effectiveness of therapists themselves * Features an 8-week introduction to mindfulness in the form of exercises designed to help therapists develop their own meditation practice and apply it to their lives * Integrates key research that includes the Five Facets of Mindfulness, the Three-Person-Perspectives approach, and the neurobiological foundations of mindfulness training * Supported by online meditations and exercises for therapists

Gerhard Zarbock is a clinical psychologist, certified CBT-, Schema- and DBT-therapist, a supervisor and trainer for CBT and schema therapy, and training director of a government approved CBT training institution (IVAH) in Hamburg, Germany. Siobhan Lynch is a psychologist based at the University of Southampton. She is a specialist in mindfulness in Higher Education with a focus on Technology Enhanced Learning. She developed a mindfulness training programme for university students (Mindfulness-Based Coping with University Life) during her PhD and delivers mindfulness training to the public. www.mindful-kiwi.com Axel Ammann is a clinical psychologist and certified cognitive behavioural therapist. He works for IVAH in Hamburg, Germany and also has a private practice, focusing on mindfulness-based psychotherapy. Silka Ringer is a clinical psychologist and a certified CBT-therapist for individual and group therapy with yoga-based mindfulness experience. She runs a psychotherapy practice near Leipzig, Germany.