|  About Dr. Handlin
Dr. Diane
Handlin, Ph.D., a practitioner of Clinical Psychology,
has
degrees from Columbia University and Albert Einstein College
of Medicine as well as Parsons School of Design. She
has a degree in Career Counseling as well as Clinical
Psychology and is a clinical supervisor for doctoral students
at
the
Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
of
Rutgers University. She
was the Diversity Coordinator and Teacher of the History
of
Philosophy and Religion
and Ceramics
at The Pingry School for a number of years as well
as a Staff Psychologist
at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School/UBHC, and a
Consulting Psychologist to the Brooklyn Friends School
and the
Rockland Country Day School. In
addition, she has trained with Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founder
of the
Mindfulness-Based Stress
Reduction
Program at the University of Massachussetts Medical
School’s
Stress Reduction Program. A popular speaker, she has given
many professional lectures and workshops at numerous schools
and other organizations.  These have encompassed a number of
topics ranging from stress reduction, gender issues and social
cruelty through shifting gender roles and contemporary women’s
stories and dreams.
Some
of Dr. Handlin’s publications
include Sex Roles (Vol.
33, Nos. 7/8, 1995), Working Woman Magazine,
Independent School Magazine, The London Observer,
Time-Life Books, New
Ideas in Psychology. She served as guest editor
and contributor to two issues of The New Jersey
Psychologist
(Fall,
2006 and Winter
2007)
on Mindfulness and Psychotherapy. and has been repeatedly
published in New Jersey Life magazine (See
May 2009). As
part of her separate educational work as
the Founder and Executive Director of the Mindfulness-Based
Stress Reduction
Center of NJ, she teaches a separate educational program
for which she is one of the few people in the world, and
the only person in New Jersey who
has been Certified by
Jon Kabat-Zinn’s and Saki Santorelli’s Center
for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical
School. In addition, Dr. Handlin currently
maintains
a private practice in Metuchen, N.J.
For
more information about the
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Center of New Jersey™,
LLC which is a separate educational endeavor and not part
of her psychology practice, see www.mindfulnessnj.com
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