Tamara Russell PhD

Lecturer

Tamara Russell is a clinical psychologist, neuroscientist, martial artist and mindfulness trainer. She works as an academic and clinician, exploring the use of mindfulness to help individuals respond more skillfully to challenging emotional material.

She is the creator of the Body In Mind Training Framework, a body-based mindfulness training which allows individuals to become more in tune with bodily reactions and responses, increasing awareness and promoting mental and physical well-being. She has delivered Body In Mind Training across a number of NHS Trusts as well as to health care workers internationally.

Her academic work focuses on the evaluation of adaptations of mindfulness for different clinical groups including eating disorders and bipolar illness and healthcare staff. Tamara is involved in international collaborations looking at how mindfulness training changes the structure and function of the brain.

Tamara is the Director of the Mindfulness Centre of Excellence, London an organization dedicated to the wider dissemination of mindfulness training alongside support and training for teachers of mindfulness from all backgrounds and disciplines.

See more information at drtamararussell.com.