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Miami, Florida is where I live and share my life with my loving husband, precious daughter, and dog, Cody. A lifelong lover of nature and movement, I enjoy the beach, yoga, dancing, interesting food, and traveling.
About Founder, Dr. Kristin Jones
Many people suffer from painful emotions that may feel exhausting and depleting. If you are one of these many people, your suffering can be reduced through the use of effective skills for emotional balance, and those skills will create both revitalization and resilience. As a Doctor of Health Science, a Psychotherapist, and Yoga and Mindfulness Teacher, I have witnessed firsthand the transformational benefits of these skills in the lives of so many people. Jones Mindful Living was created to bring life enhancing practices to you in a way that is affordable and accessible, overcoming the obstacles of time, cost, and distance.
My Training and Career: I hold a Doctoral Degree in Health Science, Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology. My private practice is called Jones Therapy and Coaching and is in Miami, Florida. I am intensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (“DBT”) through Behavioral Tech, the official training organization founded by Dr. Marsha Linehan and served as the director of the DBT program at The Counseling Group in Miami for nine years. I am also intensively trained in DBT Prolonged Exposure for posttraumatic stress disorder, and Radically Open DBT. I also have extensive training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Mindfulness, and Yoga. I specialize in the treatment of eating disorders, anxiety disorders, depression, borderline personality disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Please visit www.jonestherapyandcoaching.com for more information about my clinical practice.
Contributors
Sherid Carter, Peer DBT Skills Coach
Sherid is professionally trained in DBT Foundational Skills from the Dr. Linehan Institute. She specializes in DBT Skills peer to peer support work. She has two years’ experience in working as DBT skills support worker and has a Bachelor of Arts in Education and Sociology as well as a Post Graduate Diploma in Primary School Teaching.
She discovered DBT Skills while on her own life journey and experienced its life changing potential. She has since been passionate about supporting and encouraging others to become empowered and begin creating and living their best life, a beautiful life worth living, through applying the DBT skills. As an experienced DBT skills peer to peer support worker she has a special focus in providing students with homework feedback and individual DBT skills support. She believes that homework is the crucial element in DBT skills training that gives students the ability to gain their own personal empowerment and experience a changed life by integrating these skills into their every-day life. Her passion is to see others experiencing a life that is exciting, worth living and full of hope.
Outside of DBT, Sherid lives in the Cook Islands and loves spending time at the beach. She is also a teacher and a triathlete. When she isn’t working you can find her hiking the topical island’s mountains, open water swimming in the lagoon, running or cycling.
Amanda Espino, Certified Life Coach
Amanda is a Certified Life Coach, Social Media Manager and Artisan. In 2016, she graduated with a BA in Psychology from Florida International University and embarked on a self-exploration journey that led her to integrate life coaching, spirituality, and art into her career. Today, Amanda’s soul-mission is to inspire others to recognize their potential and discover what they’re passionate about so that they can create a meaningful path of purpose.
When Amanda isn’t coaching clients, creating with her hands, or serving her community, you can find her hanging out at the beach and spending time with her loved ones.
Contact Amanda at creativecollabsbyae@gmail.com and follow her on instagram @giraamor and @thegracefulartisan.
Inge Sengelmann, LCSW, SEP, RYT
Inge is a licensed clinical social worker, DBT specialist and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner who specializes in the treatment of disorders of extreme stress. She also is a certified ParaYoga teacher whose passion is to help people embody their lifeforce through tantric hatha yoga (including meditation, restorative yoga and yoga nidra). Inge promotes a practice of psychology and spirituality that is embodied, integrating body, mind and spirit using energy healing techniques from tantra, yoga, and Vedanta. As a clinical psychotherapist, Inge has worked in various settings, from a publicly-funded trauma resolution clinic, to residential eating disorder treatment, group psychotherapy practice, as well as solo private practice. She established Miami’s first Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) comprehensive program with a group of colleagues in 2011 at The Counseling Group. In 2012, she earned recognition by the Florida Center for Survivors of Torture for her pro bono work with traumatized refugees seeking political asylum. She’s passionate about working with clients on trans-generational and ancestral trauma and resilience integration. She’s also trained extensively to work somatically with medical syndromes and near-death experiences, including post-COVID syndrome and ICU/ventilator delirium trauma. Her book “It’s Time to Eat: Embody, Awaken & Transform our Relationship with Food, Body and Self” is available on Amazon and blends her personal and professional experience with eating disorder recovery. Her booklet “The GOD(d) Method: 15 Grounding, Orienting and Distracting Strategies to Rapidly Reduce Distress” is also available on Amazon in print and as an eBook. Follow Inge on Instagram @SomaPsycheYogi and find out more about her services on her website at www.embodyyourlife.org
Dr. Lyndsey Karns, PsyD
Dr. Lyndsey Karns is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in the state of Florida and founder of The Middle Path, LLC. As a licensed psychologist, Lyndsey has advanced training and extensive experience in working with a variety of issues that can get in the way of emotional, spiritual and physical balance. Her areas of specialization include trauma, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), substance abuse, borderline personality disorder, depression & anxiety, and relationship issues.
Contact Dr. Karns at Dr.Lyndsey@Middlepathcounseling.org and visit her website here.
Alma Lovaton Quagliato, MS, LMFT
Over 20 years of experience as a psychotherapist has provided Alma Lovaton Quagliato, MS, LMFT, Co-Founder & Co-Director of The Counseling Group, with an appreciation for the suffering her clients are experiencing by the time they reach out for help. Throughout her career, Alma has sought out to further her education in the most cutting edge developments in the field that would prove the most effective in helping her clients attains their goals.
This search for treatments that worked led her to receive intensive training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT); the gold standard in empirically validated treatment for the most challenging cases. “The changes I have seen as my clients in our DBT Program reclaim their lives and work towards lives worth living is the is the most rewarding work I have done in my career. I am passionate about this work, and the improvement of people’s lives”.
Alma works with adults, families and couples, and runs DBT Groups. Her specialties include Depressive Disorders, Borderline Personality Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Eating Disorders, and Marriage and Family Therapy.
Visit http://counselinggroupmiami.com/providers/alma-lovaton-quagliato/ if you are interested in working with Alma.
About Dalit Szkolnik, MA, RD, LD/N, CEDRD-S
Dalit is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and approved Supervisor with more than 15 years of experience working with clients with Eating Disorders. Dalit graduated with a double major in Nutrition & Dietetics and Psychology and attained a Masters in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University, NY. Dalit has worked with athletes such as the Red Sox baseball team, provides talks to both professionals and schools and is currently seeing clients from her private practice at The Counseling Group, Miami, while serving the community as current President for the iaedp Miami Chapter.
Email Dalit at dalitrd@gmail.com for more information and follow her on instagram @dalitrd!
About Cristina Oliver, MS, LMFT
Cristina Oliver, MS, LMFT is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in Miami, Florida. She works within a group private practice, The Counseling Group, and is one of the therapists within their Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Program. Cristina has over 6 years of experience working with clients who suffer from emotion dysregulation, anxiety, depression, interpersonal conflicts, family conflicts, and eating disorders. She specializes in treating borderline personality disorder and a wide spectrum of eating disorders
Email Cristina at coliver@counselinggroupmiami.com for more information and if you are interested in working with her.