Krista De Castella (Ph.D, LMFT) is a licensed psychotherapist and certified mindfulness teacher (MBSR). She completed a PhD in Psychology at the Australian National University and a Clinical Masters at San Francisco State University. Since moving home, she is currently completing AHPRA provisional registration requirements for general registration as a psychologist in Australia. Krista is passionate about mindfulness-based interventions for children and adults and spent two years as a Fulbright visiting researcher in Stanford's Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience Lab (CAAN) researching the implications of mindfulness meditation for anxiety disorders and emotion regulation. Krista has worked with groups, couples and adults at the SF Stress and Anxiety Center and at Seeds of Awareness where she helped provide mindfulness and nature-based interventions for neurodiverse kids. Outside of her clinical work, Krista is an avid martial arts practitioner and has spent over a decade training in the Japanese Soto Zen meditation tradition in which she is an ordained priest. Krista received training in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) from Bob Stahl, Ph.D and Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. Her MBSR training is through the OASIS institute/UMass Medical Center.Her main research interests lie in the field of psychedelic assisted psychotherapy, Clinical Psychology and Affective Science. She’s particularly interested in how people’s beliefs shape their experience and impact psychological health and well being.