Dr. Catherine Cook Cottone

Catherine Cook-Cottone, Ph.D., is a Licensed Psychologist, Registered Yoga Teacher, and Professor at SUNY at Buffalo. She is creator and director of the Mindful Counseling Advanced Certificate program and co-founder and president of Yogis in Service, Inc. a not-for-profit organization that creates access to yoga.    Catherine’s research specializes in embodied self- regulation (i.e., yoga, mindfulness, and mindful self-care) and psychosocial disorders (e.g., eating disorders, substance use, and trauma). Her research has been funded by National Science Foundation, UNICEF, lululemon athletic, and the Give Back Yoga Foundation. Catherine has written eight books and over 75 peer reviewed articles and book chapters.    Her international work includes research and consulting with the Africa Yoga project and the United Nations Foundation helping develop and deliver a trauma-informed, mindfulness-based resilience training for yoga teachers in Kenya, Somalia, and Rwanda and humanitarian workers in North America, Africa, and the Middle East. She teaches courses in psychopathology, mindful therapy, yoga for health and healing, self-care and service, and counseling with children and adolescents. In 2018, she was awarded the American Psychological Association’s Citizen Psychologist Presidential Citation.