Meet the Team
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Adele Pacini
Adele is one of our directors. She is a registered Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy teacher with the British Association of Mindfulness Based Approaches (BAMBA). A chartered clinical psychologist, she previously worked in the NHS before establishing the Mindful Life Group.
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Amanda Bloomfield
Amanda is the CEO of Gatehouse Charity, and provides support and mentorship for our organisation. We work also in partnership with Gatehouse Charity to deliver some of our mindfulness courses. You can read more about Gatehouse charity and their work here
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Annabel Stickland
Annabel is one of our directors, with an interest in qualitative approaches to understanding people’s experiences on the course. She manages the delivery of our programs and supports our interns and volunteers.
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Gemma Hawkins
Gemma is a psychology graduate with interests in clinical and educational psychology. She oversees the data collection and analysis for our courses, and co-leads on funding applications alongside Adele.
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Raechel Schoder
Raechel works on our community outreach work, helping us to let people know about upcoming mindfulness courses. A psychology undergraduate, she also assists with running the courses and has worked with various clinical groups in the NHS and community.
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Krystal Iniguez
Krystal is a psychology graduate with an interest in occupational therapy. She helps us to interpret our text based feedback from people who attend the mindfulness courses
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Janice Birrell
Janice will graduate with a BSc Hons Psychology with Counselling degree this summer. She has an interest in qualitative approaches to understanding people's experiences and is assisting with transcription and qualitative analysis of focus and follow-on group interviews
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Aimee Bailey
Aimee is a final year psychology student with an interest in clinical and neuropsychology. She helps us with our qualitative data analysis and is passionate about working with older people
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Summer-Jeanne Spencer
Summer-Jeanne is a biology degree student and qualified health coach, with an interest in science communication for health and wellbeing
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Amy Photiou
Amy is a second year psychology with counselling undergraduate with a keen interest in clinical psychology and psychosexual counselling. She is helping us with transcribing our interviews and supporting delivery of our mindfulness courses.