Mental Health
Decades of research has shown that practicing compassion for others and yourself can help relieve depression, heal trauma, and reduce anxiety and stress. It helps people to connect more with others, build resilience, and increases happiness and life satisfaction.
Essential Reading
Books on Compassion in Mental Health
The Fallacy of the Three Fs
The power of green: how nature enhances well-being in urban environments
Why we resist compassion
Five steps to happier living
The science of compassion
Mindfulness helps psychologists deal with uncertainty
Compassion for personality disorders
Do you love the skin you’re in?
Mindfulness and self-compassion for dealing with trauma
Compassion training increases closeness to a disliked person
Online self-compassion intervention helps older adults with loneliness
Creating a legacy of (self) compassion
Medicine for the heart
This holiday, let’s rest and renew together
Watch
Videos about Compassion in Mental Health
Meditating Together: Tania Singer on the Contemplative Dyad
The Home Within You Book Collection
Psychological flexibility: How love turns pain into purpose
Mental Brakes to Avoid Mental Breaks
Empowering The Mental Health Paradigm
Self-Compassion: Why and How to Be Kind to Yourself
Healing Burnout Meditation
Deep Rest Meditation
Bring Love to What We Do
Untangling
Modern Monk
Tending to Suffering with Equanimity
Our Founding Supporters
People Working on Compassion in Mental Health from our Founding Supporters

Abigail Marsh
Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Cognitive Science
Georgetown University

Aditi Ganguly
Senior Psychologist
Anjali Mental Health Rights Organization

Albert Garcia-Romeu
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research

Alex Howard
Founder
Alex Howard Group Ltd

Alex Nunn
Head of Movement Building
Action for Happiness

Amber Tout
Postdoctoral Researcher and Founder of Sleep Positive
University of Sussex

Andrés Gutiérrez-Carmona
Universidad de Antofagasta

Ari Cowan
Director-General
The International Center for Compassionate Organizations

Arlene MacDougall
Psychiatrist, Researcher, Educator and Innovator
The Global Minds Collective

Barbara Fredrickson
Kenan Distinguished Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Bliss Beata Lewis
Psychiatrist
Mind Body Seven Psychiatry PC

Bruce Ecker
Co-director
Coherence Psychology Institute

Carole Pertofsky
Director Emerita; Health Promotion Services
Stanford University

Cassandra Vieten
Clinical Professor, Family Medicine and Public Health
Center for Mindfulness, University of California, San Diego

Catherine Andreu
Certified CCT Instructor

Charlene Sunkel
Founder/CEO
Global Mental Health Peer Network

Christian Waugh
Professor of Psychology
Wake Forest University

Christine Russel
Youth Mentor & Facilitator (Pou-whiri)
The Kindness Institute

Christopher Germer
Co-founder, Center for MSC
Center for Mindful Self-Compassion

Christopher Willard
Lecturer at Harvard Medical School
Founder Enlightened Livelihoods

Clifford Saron
Research Scientist
Center for Mind and Brain UC Davis

Dan Siegel
President
Mindsight Institute

David Steindl-Rast
Benedictine Monk
www.grateful.org

Diana Fosha
AEDP Founder & Director of AEDP Institute
AEDP Institute

Doris Chang
Clinical Psychologist and Associate Professor
New York University Silver School of Social Work

Douglas Otieno
Executive Director
TINADA Youth Organization (TiYO)

Elaine Fox
Head of School of Psychology
University of Adelaide

Elisha Goldstein
Author, Psychologist, Educator
The Center for Mindful Living

Elissa Epel
Health Psychologist
The University of California, San Francisco

Eric Zimmer
Podcast Creator and Host, Behavior Coach
The One You Feed, LLC

Erika Malm
Founder/Psychotherapist
Erika Malm Collective

Farid Numa
Neurociencia + Mindfulness + Emociones

Fleet Maull
Master Trainer, Author, Consultant, Executive Coach
Heart Mind Institute and Prison Dharma Network

Foteini Lekka
MBCT Teacher, Trainer and Supervisor, CBT Trainer and Supervisor
Association of Cognitive Behavioural Studies

Fredric Rabinowitz
Professor, Chair Psychology
University of Redlands

George Taylor
Marriage & Family Therapist
A Path for Couples

James Kirby
Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology
The University of Queensland

Jason Marsh
Founding Editor in Chief and Executive Director
The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley

Jed Diamond
Founder, VHS (Visionary, Healer, Scholar in residence) MenAlive.com
MenAlive

Jeff Jacobs
Senior Director, Organizational Effectiveness
Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, Inner MBA, Compassion 2.0, Institute for Organizational Science Mindfulness

Jess Miller
Postdoctoral Research Associate and Principal Investigator
University of Cambridge and Police Care UK

Joe Loizzo
Founder and Academic Director
Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science

John Forsyth
Professor of Psychology
Association for Contextual Behavioral Science

Julia Mossbridge
Co-Founder and Board Member, TILT: The Institute for Love and TIme
TILT: The Institute for Love and Time

Kate Cavanagh
Professor of Clinical Psychology
University of Sussex

Katie Shillington
PhD Candidate
Western University

Koshin Paley Ellison
President & Co-Guiding Teacher
New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care

Kristin Neff
Researcher and author
Center for Mindful Self-compassion

Kyle Thiermann
Journalist, Podcast Host and Filmmaker

Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
Founder and Director
The Trauma Stewardship Institute

Liliana Lengua
Professor, Child Clinical Psychology
University of Washington Center for Child and Family Well-being

Lobsang Tenzin Negi
Co-founder and Executive Director
The Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics at Emory University

Lori Gottlieb
Writer and Psychotherapist

Lori Schwanbeck
Founder
Lori Schwanbeck

Lynne Reeder
Adjunct Research Fellow
Federation University, Australian Compassion Council, Charter for Compassion

Marcela Matos
Clinical Psychologist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Coimbra

Margaret Cullen
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and MBSR Teacher

Maria Fernanda Porcelli
Certified CCT Instructor

Marian Stuart
Emeritus Professor of Family and Community Medicine
Rutgers University

Mark Williams
Professor of Clinical Psychology
University of Oxford

Mary-Frances O’Connor
Associate Professor
University of Arizona

Nan Herron
Psychiatrist
Sage Integrative Health

Nicola Petrocchi
Psychology Professsor & CFT Therapist
John Cabot University

Norman Farb
Psychology Professor
University of Toronto Mississauga

Paul Fulton
Board member
Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy

Paul Gilbert
Founder & Professor
Compassionate Mind Foundation UK, University of Derby

Richard Layard
Professor
LSE and Action for Happiness

Richard Schwartz
Founder
Internal Family Systems Institute

Robin Ticic
Psychologist, Therapist, Author and Director of Development and Training Coherence Psychology Institute
Coherence Pyschology Institute

Roger Walsh
Professor of psychiatry, philosophy, and anthropology
University of California

Ron DeStefano
Psychologist
The Human Species

Rona Hart
Course leader, The Psychology of Kindness and Wellbeing at Work
School of Psychology, University of Sussex

Ronald Siegel
Assistant Professor of Psychology, part time, Harvard Medical School
Center for Mindfulness and Compassion, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School

Shauna Shapiro
Professor
Santa Clara University

Shawn Achor
Happiness researcher and author

Sonja Lyubomirsky
Distinguished Professor
University of California, Riverside

Stan Steindl
Clinical Psychologist & Professor

Stan Tatkin
Clinician, Researcher & Teacher
PACT Institute

Stephen Porges
Adjunct Professor for Intelligent Systems Engineering
Indiana University

Steven Hayes
Foundation Professor of Psychology
University of Nevada, Reno

Tania Singer
Scientific Head of the Social Neuroscience Lab of the Max Planck Society
Max Planck Society, Germany

Terry Real
Author and Family Therapist
Relational Life Institute

Timothy Harrison
Associate Director
Emory University Compassion Center

Tina Bryson
Author/Speaker/Founder & CEO, LCSW
The Center for Connection

Tobias Esch
Professor of Medicine, Neuroscientist, Happiness Researcher
Mind-Body Medicine Research Council (MBMRC), Witten/Herdecke University

Tony Fernando
Psychiatrist, Sleep Specialist
Practice 92

Tracy Dennis-Tiwary
Founder
Arcade Therapeutics

Tricia Wolanin
Community Wellness Consultant/Clinical Psychologist

Zindel Segal
Distinguished Professor of Psychology in Mood Disorders
University of Toronto Scarborough



























