Trudy Goodman and Christiane Wolf

Trudy Goodman is Executive Director and Founding Teacher of InsightLA. Trudy was a psychotherapist in private practice for 25 years  and studied Buddhist meditation for 36 years with Asian and Western teachers. She was the fourth teacher of MBSR, mindfulness-based stress reduction, which she taught with its creator, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn. She is the Guiding Teacher and co-founder of the original Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Los Angeles, Trudy co-founded Family Path and Growing Spirit, family mindfulness programs, with Susan Kaiser Greenland and has worked with children all her life. She is a contributing author: Guilford 2005, Mindfulness and Psychotherapy; Springer, 2008 Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness.

Christiane Wolf is the Director of MBSR programs at InsightLA and a certified senior MBSR teacher by the Center for Mindfulness, University of Massachusetts Medical Center. A board licensed Ob/Gyn in Europe, she also holds a PhD in Psychosomatic Medicine from the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Besides MBSR she teaches Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP) and beginning and intermediate level Buddhism classes. Her areas of expertise include working with patients who have cancer and chronic disease, and working with pain in the general population as well.