Catherine is a Unified Mindfulness Teacher/Trainer and a registered counsellor in Australia.
As a lifelong ‘over-thinker’ Catherine has found immense relief and profound transformation working with the Unified Mindfulness (UM) system and other mindfulness practices. She loves sharing practice and helping people integrate mindfulness into their daily lives.
Working predominantly with individuals, Catherine adopts a compassionate and encouraging coaching approach that is grounded in her UM training and focussed on people’s happiness goals. Where appropriate, Catherine also draws on other non-dual techniques that have supported her own understanding and growth, such as those from the Headless Way.
In her counselling work (Australian clients only), Catherine is increasingly blending mindfulness approaches with traditional talk therapies to help clients take control of their attention, understand themselves better and build more rewarding lives.
Before shifting careers, Catherine spent an enriching two decades working in public policy with the Australian Government. The work included overseas postings and leading policy development on issues relating to migrant and refugee settlement, multicultural policy and social cohesion.
Catherine’s has the following academic qualifications:
• Graduate Diploma in Counselling (currently finalising Masters) from the University of Canberra
• Master of Arts in Media and Communication from Deakin University
• Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Melbourne
• Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne
Catherine is also a volunteer Crisis Supporter for Lifeline, Australia’s suicide prevention hotline.
Julianna received her BA in psychology from Duke University. As founder, president, and head trainer of Unified Mindfulness, she is dedicated to disseminating Shinzen Young’s comprehensive mindfulness meditation system through the creation and presentation of educational programs and teacher-training certification programs.
Dr. Hunter serves as associate professor of practice and is the founding director of the Executive Mind Leadership Institute at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University. He also serves as visiting professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, where he developed and co-teaches the Leading Mindfully executive education program..
Dr. Eisendrath serves as chief psychologist and president of the Institute for Dialogue Therapy, P.C., where, as a Jungian analyst, she offers psychotherapy with individuals and couples, psychoanalysis, supervision, and training.
Dr. Vago serves as the research director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and the director of the Contemplative Neuroscience and Integrative Medicine (CNIM) Laboratory at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is an associate professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Department of Psychiatry.
Stella is a psychologist, professor, and Zen practitioner. She became a formal student in 2008 in the Soto Zen tradition. She teaches courses in mindfulness based psychotherapies and the psychology of compassion at the Union Institute & University. She also co-facilitates a family program and young adult program at Shao Shan Temple, in Woodbury Vermont.
Dr. Creswell serves as a tenured associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the director of the Health & Human Performance Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. McCormick currently serves as director of education at Unified Mindfulness. In 1975, he received a B.A. in psychology from the University of California Santa Cruz, where he was part of Dr. Elliot Aronson’s research team that examined cooperative approaches to reducing interracial conflict and academic performance problems in newly integrated school, and made Honors in Psychology, College Honors, and Thesis Honors.
UnifiedMindfulness.com is the official teacher training platform for Shinzen and the Unified Mindfulness System.
Created over 50 years of research and testing by Shinzen Young, Unified Mindfulness is a system of meditation that’s easily researchable by science, with clear terminology and rigorous precision around concepts and procedures.
The Unified Mindfulness system is a comprehensive, robust and refined support structure that any individual at any stage of meditation practice can rely on to go deeper in their insight and their ability to share it with others. It is also a secular form of meditation, which means it’s not religious in any way so anyone, of any faith, can do it.