MBSR teaching:Mindfulness Training Institute of Australasia
MBI Teacher Training:Openground Mindfulness Programs
Timothea has trained in MBSR with the Centre for Mindfulness (CFM) , UMass, USA and is accredited by the CFM, having taught MBSR since 2004. Timothea has worked in private practice for 25 years as a psychotherapist, educator and workplace trainer, having trained in humanistic, psychodynamic and body-based psychotherapy as well as three levels of training and supervision in MiCBT with Bruno Cayoun. Regarding other mindfulness modalities, she has completed the Level I training in ACT and Level I training in Breathworks, and assisted as a teach-back teacher on an MBCT training with Mark Williams and Maura Kenny in 2010. Since 2007, she has been offering MBSR training and supervision for health professionals and others. She is a co-founding Director of the Mindfulness Training Institute of Australasia - which offers MBI training and certification in the Asia Pacific. She is active in the work towards the establishment of a world-wide standards network for the training of MBI teachers.

Timothea also works with organizations to design and implement coaching and mindfulness based programs for stress development, leadership and facilitation. She is a long time student of yoga, Aikido and meditation and practices in the insight tradition. She is the Director of Openground – an Australia-wide network of clinicians and teachers offering MBSR and related programs. She is involved in ongoing research projects in co-operation with post-graduate students in Australian universities on the impact on the MBSR program on anxiety, depression, empathy and self compassion.