Miranda Bevis

I have been practicing Meditation and Yoga for about 20 years. In 2007, I attended a Mindfulness course to deepen my own experience of meditation, and also to learn more about an approach which I felt could be of help in my work as a counsellor.

My experience was immensely positive, both personally and professionally. Mindfulness is a powerful life enhancing approach, together with being a safe and effective therapeutic tool.

I became keen to promote Mindfulness more widely, and completed a teacher training course run by Bangor University to teach the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course. to date I have taught 33 group courses and also worked with many one to one students.

I run courses at The Terrace, a centre for psychological and complementary health therapies in Taunton. (www.the-terrace.co.uk)

I have recently completed a teacher training for the Mindfulness Based Compassionate Living course and am now running groups.

As well as teaching courses, I have run workshops about Mindfulness for hospital staff, yoga teachers, businesses, and a number of charities.

In my teaching, I aim to fulfil the criteria for training and continuing professional development issued by the UK Network for Mindfulness-Based Teachers, and am on the UK listing of Mindfulness Teachers (www.mindfulness-network.org/listingspagenew.php).
I have regular supervision.

My background was in Medicine, and I worked as a GP in Somerset for 12 years. I have always had an interest in psychological problems, and, while working part-time as a doctor I gained a Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling.

In 2001, I gave up medicine to concentrate on counselling, and became a BACP accredited counsellor, and also an accredited EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) practitioner.

In addition I furthered my studies into Yoga, and qualified as a Yoga Teacher.

Until recently, I have worked as a Senior Counsellor at the Somerset Counselling Centre in Taunton, Somerset, (www.scctaunton.org.uk ) and also in private practice.