Neha Chawla PhD

Neha Chawla, Ph.D., is the founder and director of the Seattle Mindfulness Center. She provides empirically supported mindfulness and acceptance-based treatments and facilitates Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention groups (MBRP). She is a co-creator of MBRP and co-author of Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention for Addictive Behaviors: A Clinician's Guide. In addition to her private practice, Dr. Chawla writes, consults, and provides training in Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP). She is involved with the continued development and evaluation of mindfulness-based treatments, as well research on issues related to therapist training and competence.

She has authored several theoretical and empirical articles and book chapters on topics related to mindfulness, addictive behavior, and mindfulness-based treatments, has facilitated numerous groups in private and community treatment settings, and conducted therapist training workshops in both the US and abroad. She is also clinical instructor at the University of Washington, providing supervision to psychology graduate students.