Hi! I started using mindfulness techniques over a decade ago. Benefits from my own mindfulness practice allowed me to step out of my engineering career early to pursue something I was more passionate about – helping others succeed.
I started with a strong desire to put mindfulness in business which led me to create a coaching practice that served local business owners and entrepreneurs. My reputation for helping clients quickly identify goals worth pursuing and, more importantly, the thinking blocks preventing them from taking action, helped my business grow.
As a Unified Mindfulness (UM) teacher/trainer, I offer individual coaching sessions for both professional and personal endeavors, guided practice sessions for groups, and practice strategy programs so people have the right level of support when they need it. I absolutely love helping people new to the UM system apply their skills to everyday situations. I really enjoy helping clients create realistic action plans so they can practice as consistently as they want to.
I specialize in helping clients apply mindfulness, kindly, to challenges associated with ADD/ADHD, anxiety, and chronic pain. And for those concerned with going too far, too fast, I’m also a Polyvagal Theory informed practitioner, ideal for those who want to practice while staying within their limits. One of my favorite challenges as a coach and trainer is finding ways to make complicated concepts relatable and practical for beginners.
So if you are new to practice, find yourself stuck or concerned about how to make practice sustainable or even practical, feel free to reach out to me via my website. I also have some free practice videos featured there if you need a little encouragement.
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.