About Me

My mindfulness practice began in 2001 within the Zen tradition at the Bodhidharma Sangha in Poland. In the beginning my interest was only contemplative however with time it evolved into exploring more practical and therapeutic aspects of mindfulness.

Over the years, I deepened my practice through long residential retreats in different parts of the world and explored a range of movement-based practices, such us yoga, qigong and karate continually seeking ways of integrating mindfulness practice into daily life.

Alongside my personal practice, I trained clinically and began integrating mindfulness into therapeutic work in 2009, following training with Prof Alan Marlatt in Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP) and the completion of my dissertation on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). Since then, mindfulness has been important part of my work with individuals and groups across a range of mental health contexts.

I completed formal UK mindfulness teacher training between 2016-2018 and have been teaching MBCT within NHS mental health services since 2016. In this role, I have been closely involved in establishing mindfulness pathways, developing services, and embedding mindfulness-based interventions within multidisciplinary teams. Since 2023, my work has expanded to include the integration of mindfulness into Long Covid and chronic pain services, adapting mindfulness-based approaches to meet the complex needs of these populations.

I am currently undertaking a PhD focused on the development and evaluation of a mindfulness-based treatment for fibromyalgia, with a particular interest in adapting mindfulness-based interventions for primary chronic pain conditions.

Alongside my clinical work, I have been providing mindfulness and mental health training for NHS professionals for several years and I am trained supervisor of mindfulness-based interventions.