She is a MSC Teacher Trainer and Regional Director of MSC in Europe. She maintains a private practice in Munich and is honorary lecturer at the Institute of Health & Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow, UK. She gained her undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Edinburgh, UK. She has published the first randomized controlled trial of Compassion Focused Therapy as developed by Professor Paul Gilbert and researches the application of compassion-based interventions in people with complex and severe mental health problems. She has many years of mindfulness practice including training with Rob Nairn (Mindfulness Association, UK). www.selbstmitgefühl.de