Christopher Germer, PhD

Chris Germer, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He co-developed the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program with Kristin Neff in 2010 and they wrote two books, The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook and Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program. MSC has been taught to over 250,000 people worldwide. Dr. Germer is also […]

Paul Gilbert, FBPsS, PhD, OBE

Paul Gilbert, FBPsS, PhD, OBE, was made Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Derby in 1992. He has had many visiting professorships at different universities and is now an honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Queensland. Until his retirement from the NHS in 2016, he was Consultant Clinical Psychologist for over 40 […]

Susie Fairchild, MA

Susie Fairchild, MA, is a licensed psychotherapist and holds positions on the board and faculty of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy.  A certified Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) Teacher through the UCSD Center for Mindfulness, Susie has served as a Consultation Group Leader for the UCSD Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy Program. She teaches MSC at The Center […]

Jorge C. Armesto, PhD, C-IAYT

Jorge C. Armesto, PhD, C-IAYT, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, where he works with diverse communities. He is passionate about the intersection of psychology, mindfulness, spirituality, and body-focused practices. As a gay Cuban-American man, Jorge’s work seeks to understand how multiple sources of oppression and resiliency intersect and […]

CIT 23 – Martha Sweezy

Martha Sweezy, PhD is an Assistant Professor, part-time, at Harvard Medical School and a program and research consultant, and supervisor, at the Cambridge Health Alliance. Her latest book, Internal Family Systems Therapy for Shame and Guilt explores shame and guilt from the perspective of Internal Family Systems therapy (IFS). She is also the author or […]

Rick Hanson

Rick Hanson, PhD, is a psychologist, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and New York Times best-selling author. His books have been published in 30 languages and have sold over a million copies in English alone. He’s lectured at NASA, Google, Oxford, and Harvard, and taught in meditation centers worldwide. An expert […]

Kristin Neff

Kristin Neff, PhD, is currently an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a pioneer in the field of self-compassion research, conducting the first empirical studies on self-compassion nearly twenty years ago, and is the author of the best-selling book Self-Compassion. She has been recognized as one of […]