Kate Brennan
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Dr Catherine Crane
Biography:
Dr Catherine Crane gained her DPhil in the Dept of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University in 2003 and since then has been working as a Post Doctoral Research Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry. She is working on a variety of projects including a collaboration with researchers at the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, University of Bristol and the multi-centre RCT “Staying Well after Depression.” Her research interests include mindfulness based treatment approaches, suicide, self-regulation and autobiographical memory.
Dr Danielle Duggan
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Biography:
Dr Danielle Duggan gained her DPhil in the Department of Psychiatry at Oxford University and is now a Post-Doctoral Research Psychologist working on a variety of projects at the Oxford Mindfulness Centre. Projects she is currently involved with include the clinical service providing courses of MBCT to clients of the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, as well as the multi-centre RCT 'Staying Well After Depression.
Dr Maret Dymond
Biography:
Maret Dymond is a Clinical Psychologist with a long standing interest in attachment theory, the prevention of postpartum depression and support for new parents.
She began exploring the practice of mindfulness during her professional training and more deeply after therapeutic training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy DBT. This led her onto undertake teacher training in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression MBCT and then later (with Nancy Bardacke) in Mindfulness Based Childbirth and Parenting MBCP.
Maret has taught MBCT groups for healthcare professionals and service users within the UK National Health Service and independently. She is leading the introduction of MBCP into Europe within the Oxford Mindfulness Centre and is also involved in the teaching and training of healthcare professionals in MBCT.
Dr Melanie Fennell
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Biography:
Dr Melanie Fennell, a pioneer of cognitive therapy for depression in the UK, is a research clinician in the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, teaches on the Masters Degree in MBCT in Oxford University and has been teaching MBCT on the Staying Well after Depression research trial.
She developed the highly successful Oxford Diploma in Cognitive Therapy and Oxford/MSc in Advanced Cognitive Therapy.
Melanie has a particular interest in cognitive therapy for depression and low self-esteem. Her book "Overcoming Low Self-Esteem" is a classic of self-help literature, winning acclaim for its practical and user-friendly approach, and now recommended on the National Health Service's self-help scheme known as "Books on Prescription"
Carolyn Guillot
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Marie Johansson
Biography:
Marie Johansson holds an MBCT Teacher/Co-ordinator post at the Oxford Mindfulness Centre. She is Clinical Lead Teacher and co-ordinates the 8-week MBCT programme for the Oxford NHS Foundation Trust.
She is also a Trainer of new MBCT Teachers, both within the Trust and externally.
She currently supervises students on the Masters Programme at Bangor as well as Mindfulness Teachers already teaching.
She qualified as a Social Worker in 1979 and is an experienced Mental Health practitioner and trained Group Worker. She has been teaching MBSR and MBCT since 2005 .
Mark Leonard
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Biography:
Mark Leonard, Projects and Development Manager, is working to establish the Oxford Mindfulness Centre a centre of excellence in research, training and teaching. Mark also teaches the “Mindfulness in the Workplace” programme based on “Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world,” by Mark Williams and Danny Penman.
John Peacock
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Chair, Board of Trustees
Isobelle Rudolf Von Ruhr
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Dhruvi Shah
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Dr Christina Surawy
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Biography:
Dr Christina Surawy is a tutor on the Masters of Studies in MBCT currently offered by Oxford University, and is involved in both teaching and training MBCT as part of her work at the Oxford Mindfulness Centre. Recently Christina has taught MBCT on the trial exploring its benefits for Health Anxiety and has been involved in developing and teaching the approach to sufferers of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) for the NHS. She has been providing supervision both in MBCT and CBT for a number of years and trained originally as a clinical psychologist.
Professor Mark Williams
Biography:
Professor Mark Williams, Director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, and Principal Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Experimental Psychology. He has held previous posts at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, the Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit (now Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) in Cambridge and the University of Wales, Bangor, where he founded the Institute for Medical and Social Care Research and the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice.
He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the British Academy.
His research is concerned with psychological models and treatment of depression and suicidal behaviour, particularly the application of experimental cognitive psychology to understanding the processes that increase risk of suicidal behaviour in depression. With colleagues John Teasdale (Cambridge) and Zindel Segal (Toronto) he developed Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for prevention of relapse and recurrence in depression, and two RCTs have now found that MBCT halves the recurrence rate in those who have suffered three or more previous episodes of major depression.
His current research focuses on whether a similar approach can help prevent suicidal ideation and behaviour. His articles also focus on how autobiographical memory biases and deficits affect current and future vulnerability.
