Clinical Psychologist
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC)
Teacher Trainer
MSC Teacher Training France 2020
MSC Intensive Berlin 2019
MSC Teacher Festival 2018
MSC Teacher Training China 2016
Meditating
Caring for This One
Find your own way to kindness by trying different MSC meditations. What is your access? Body? Words? Images? Breathing?
Befriending Loneliness
A Six-Session Audio Course
Do you struggle to be alone? Do you feel lonely even in company?
This audio course might help you to turn towards loneliness and to move through it with great kindness to develop what you have always longed for: loving connectedness. Available in English and in German.
Mindful Self-Compassion
Bohüslan, Sweden
29 Aug – 3 Sept 2021
Immerse yourself in an MSC Intensive on the West Swedish coast in late summer. Let the rugged beauty and serenity of the sea and hotel with spa support you.
Mindful Self-Compassion
Amsterdam, 6-9 December 2020
Join MSC Teacher Trainers Mila de Koning and Christine Braehler for a non-residential intensive Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) Training.
Chapter
On PTSD
Braehler, C. & Neff, K. (2020). Ch. 20: Self-Compassion in PTSD. In M.Tull & N. Kimbrel (Eds.) Emotion in PTSD.(pp. 567-591). Elsevier.
Training
To Teach MSC
Get a flavour of the 1st International MSC Teacher Festival, which I co-organised. Apply to take the first step: the 6-day Teacher Training.
Psychotherapy
Clinical Workshops
How to return to my compassionate self when I feel powerless or shamed by a client? How to repair a rupture, set boundaries and yet deepen my compassion? How to safely access compassion within an injured attachment system? Find answers in a chapter or workshop.
Chapter
On Depression
Braehler, C. & Germer, C. (2017). Compassion in Psychotherapy. In Loizzo, Neale & Wolfe (Eds.). Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy: Accelerating Transformation. (pp. 131-145). Routledge.
Chapter
On Psychosis
Braehler, C., Harper, J. & Gilbert, P. (2013). Compassion Focused Group Therapy for Recovery after Psychosis. In C. Steel (Ed.), Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Schizophrenia: Evidence Based Interventions and Future Directions (pp. 236-266). Chichester: Wiley.