Dharmachi Ananta
FacilitatorDharmachari Ananta, is a certified Mindfulness teacher through Brown University and ordained Buddhist within the Triratna tradition. He has taught meditation and dharma for over fifteen years, is a guide and mentor to people training for ordination in his tradition, and has cumulatively spent three years on retreat. He recently taught mindfulness to under-served communities as part of a Fellowship with the Interfaith Center of New York.
Shivam Gosai, MS
TherapistShivam is a psychotherapist who believes the therapeutic journey is not one of fixing perceived damages but of rediscovering the wholeness that has been there all along. He collaborates with clients to explore their inner worlds and partners with their best selves to achieve deep healing and emotional growth.
H. Kimball Jones, MDiv, PhD, LMHC
TherapistKimball Jones has practiced pastoral psychotherapy at PSI since its inception in 1975. A practicing Buddhist as well as an ordained Methodist minister, Dr. Jones brings a unique multi-disciplinary experience to his work, encapsulating the motto of PSI to “treat body, mind, and spirit as one.”
Jessica E. Heller, MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT
TherapistJessica is a licensed therapist specializing in creative arts therapy. In her clinical practice, she aims to provide integrated psychological, behavioral, emotional, and spiritual support services that are unique and geared towards the clients’ expressive interests and strengths. Creative arts therapy integrates the traditions of psychotherapy with creative expression via visual art, writing, and movement, to name a few. Jessica utilizes a diverse set of “tools” including art therapy, writing, breath work, mindfulness, and traditional talk therapies.
Lana Hurst, MHC-LP
TherapistLana Hurst (she/her) cares deeply about helping her client’s step into their journeys with greater courage and authenticity. Her work with clients includes those navigating gender identity, sexual orientation, relationship concerns, anxiety, depression, spiritual issues, and religious trauma.
Sarah McCaslin, MDiv, LCSW
Therapist and PSI Executive DirectorSarah McCaslin is devoted to fostering the human capacity for resilience, growth and meaning-making, even under the most daunting circumstances. She believes in the inherent spirituality of all people to be a resource for achieving healing and wholeness.
Mary Ragan, PhD, LCSW
TherapistMary Ragan, PhD, LCSW is a clinician and supervisor at the Psychotherapy & Spirituality Institute. Her professional work consists of three areas of interest: clinical work as a therapist, consulting work with groups and academic teaching in various institutions.
Kim Schneiderman, LCSW
TherapistKim is a Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) psychotherapist who views every life as a sacred story that is open to interpretation, especially one’s own. As a holistic psychotherapist, seasoned writer, and “deep soul diver,” Kim Schneiderman, LCSW, helps clients befriend and unburden different parts of themselves that are no longer serving them, so that they can create a life that both honors and expresses their deeper needs, values, and gifts in their personal and professional relationships.
Craig Sloane, LSCW, CASAC, CSAT
FacilitatorCraig is a psychotherapist in private practice in NYC and a qualified MBSR teacher through Brown University. Craig specializes in working with developmental trauma, addiction recovery, harm reduction psychotherapy, sexuality and life transitions. In addition to teaching MBSR Craig has facilitated community based mindfulness programs and corporate workplace mindfulness workshops.