Sitting Together: Essential Skills for Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy

About Ronald D. SiegelSusan M. PollakThomas Pedulla

Susan M. Pollak MTS EdD is cofounder and senior teacher at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance where she has supervised and taught since the mid-1990s. She is past president of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy and a psychologist in private practice in Cambridge Massachusetts. A longtime student of meditation and yoga Dr. Pollak teaches about mindfulness compassion and self-compassion in psychotherapy and has been integrating the practices of meditation into psychotherapy since the 1980s. She is author of Self-Compassion for Parents (for general readers) and coauthor of Sitting Together: Essential Skills for Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy (for mental health professionals). Thomas Pedulla LICSW is a clinical social worker and psychotherapist in private practice in Arlington Massachusetts where he works with individuals and leads mindfulness-based cognitive therapy groups. A faculty and board member at the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy since 2007 Mr. Pedulla has also served on the board of the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center and has been a practitioner of meditation in the vipassana tradition since the 1980s. Ronald D. Siegel PsyD is Assistant Professor of Psychology part time at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance where he has taught since the early 1980s. He is a longtime student of mindfulness meditation and is a faculty and board member at the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. Dr. Siegel teaches internationally about the application of mindfulness practices in psychotherapy and other fields and maintains a private practice in Lincoln Massachusetts. His books include The Mindfulness Solution for general readers as well as several acclaimed works for professionals.