Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Center Of NJ

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Dr. Diane Handlin, Ph.D., a practitioner of Clinical Psychology, has degrees from Columbia University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine as well as Parsons School of Design. She has a degree in Career Counseling as well as Clinical Psychology and is a clinical supervisor for doctoral students at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology of Rutgers University. She was the Diversity Coordinator and Teacher of the History of Philosophy and Religion and Ceramics at The Pingry School for a number of years as well as a Staff Psychologist at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School/UBHC, and a Consulting Psychologist to the Brooklyn Friends School and the Rockland Country Day School. In addition, she has trained with Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founder of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Schools Stress Reduction Program. A popular speaker, she has given many professional lectures and workshops at numerous schools and other organizations. These have encompassed a number of topics ranging from stress reduction, gender issues and social cruelty through shifting gender roles and contemporary women's stories and dreams. Some of Dr. Handlin's publications include Sex Roles (Vol. 33, Nos. 7/8, 1995), Working Woman Magazine, Independent School Magazine, The London Observer, Time-Life Books, New Ideas in Psychology. She served as guest editor and contributor to two issues of The New Jersey Psychologist (Fall, 2006 and Winter 2007) on Mindfulness and Psychotherapy. In addition to her separate educational work as the Founder and Executive Director of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Center of NJ, she currently maintains a private practice in Metuchen, N.J.