Training in Mindfulness-based Cognitive behavioural therapies
Our Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) training is approved by the British Psychological Society Learning Centre for the purposes of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Dr. David Gillanders, ABCS Peer-reviewed ACT Trainer
Journal Articles
Keith, L.., Gillanders, D., & Simpson, S. (2009) An Exploration Of The Main Sources Of Shame In An Eating Disordered Population. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 16, 317-327
McIntosh, E., Gillanders, D., & Rodgers, S. (2009) Rumination, Goal Linking, Daily Hassles and Life Events in Major Depression. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 17, 1, 33-43.
Livingstone, K., Harper, S., & Gillanders, D. (2009) Emotion Regulation and Coping in Psychosis. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 16, 5, 418-430.
Book Chapters
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Motivational Interviewing for Health Behaviour Change. (In press). In L. McCracken (Ed.) Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness-Based Approaches in Behavioral Medicine: An Integrative Clinical and Research Guide. Oakland: New Harbinger.
Psychological Aspects of Chronic Pain (in press). In L. Colvin (Ed.) ABC’s of Pain Medicine, Chichester: Blackwell.
Contributor of clinical material to Hackmann, A., & Holmes, E. (in press) The Oxford Guide to Imagery Intervention in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Oxford University Press, Oxford
Martin Wilks, Chartered Psychologist, BSc. Psychol, Dip Couns, MSc. Couns Psychol, Dip Couns.Psychol
Martin has cultivated his personal mindfulness practice for over 25 years. For 17 yrs, working as both psychologist and visiting Buddhist minister, he facilitated mindfulness-based groups and counselling services in a central London prison. In private practice, since 2002 he has been developing the use of ACT in short term work and weaves many ACT & MBCT practices and procedures into longer term mindfulness-based psychotherapy. His research interests focus upon qualitative, participant inquiry methods exploring the integration of mindfulness meditation with counseling; and in developing public-sector / third sector partnership arrangements for the roll-out of 3rd wave therapies.
Lindsay Fletcher, M.A. PhD Candidate, University of Nevada, Reno
Lindsay has studied under Steven Hayes, the originator of ACT, for five years. During that time she has led ACT workshops for therapists, taught ACT core competencies, taught an undergraduate course called Acceptance and Mindfulness and authored numerous book chapters and articles. Lindsay has extensive meditation experience and completed a 26-day retreat in Thailand before starting graduate school. She has developed meditation-based ACT protocols for clients with emotional eating problems and insomnia. Her research interests focus on behavioral health and she is currently conducting a trial to test the efficacy of ACT for increasing physical activity.
Recent publications:
Fletcher, L. & Hayes, S.C. (in press) Phenomenology and Modern Behavioral Psychology. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology Masuda, A., Hayes, S.C., Fletcher, L.B. et al. (2007) Impact of acceptance and commitment therapy versus education on stigma toward people with psychological disorders. Behaviour Research and Therapy 45 (11): 2764-2772 Fletcher, LB & Hayes, S. C. (2005). Relational frame theory, acceptance and commitment therapy, and a functional analytic definition of mindfulness. Journal of Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. 23 (4): 315-336.
Henry J. Whitfield MSc (CBT/REBT) MBACP
Henry founded Mindfulness Training Ltd in 2006. His research interests include the theoretical and practical integration of mindfulness with cognitive behavioural theories, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy processes and in case-formulated applications of mindfulness. After 4 years as a trauma specialist for Victim Support Lambeth, Henry is now conducting empirical research for City and Hackney Mind, investigating the process of values within different approaches to trauma counselling. He also works in private pratice, and teaches widely on the subject of Mindfulness-consistent therapies.
Towards case-specific applications of mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioural therapies: A Mindfulness-Based Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy - Counselling Psychology Quarterly June; Vol 19(2): 205-217. Routledge (2006) . (See reading page of this site). Traumatic Incident Reduction: Operationalising Rogerian theory in Brief therapy practice. Chapter 4 in Tudor, K. Brief Person-Centred Therapies. Sage (2008). Bringing Mindfulness into the therapeutic relationship. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal. April, Vol 10. BACP(2010)