Dr. Ameeta Dudani, CPsych, RYT (she/her) (drdudani.com), Gentle Healer of the Heart, is an Aspirant of the Order of Interbeing and has had the joy of mentorship by Jo-ann Rosen for the past three and a half years. Ameeta was born in Mumbai, India and immigrated to Canada at 11 years of age. 

She resides in Toronto/Tkaronto, Canada, on the traditional territories of the Anishnaabe, Mississaugas and Wendat peoples, and practices with the Mindfulness Practice Community of Toronto. 

Ameeta is a Clinical Psychologist who works with children and youth (0-19), and their families. She currently works at a local Family Health Team and in private practice. Ameeta is also a Mindfulness meditation teacher/consultant, who trained with Jon Kabat-Zinn in MBSR in Mind-Body Medicine, and a Hatha Yoga teacher (RYT-200). Ameeta has a longstanding practice of meditation and yoga. She offers mindfulness-based therapy to children and adolescents and has been teaching mindfulness groups to all ages for the past 9 years. She is a trauma educator who frequently facilitates mind-body workshops on trauma and trauma-sensitive practice.

Ameeta's favourite way to teach mindfulness is in nature. In 2015, she was recruited by the Toronto Region Conservation Authority to curate a mindfulness in nature program. She developed a 6-week course and has offered this course regularly since 2015, along with Silent retreats in nature, in the Toronto area. This is her passion and she loves learning from and with nature, and helping others to heal and cultivate mindfulness skills in nature. 

Ameeta is profoundly inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh, this path and our beautiful community. She aspires to continue to develop herself as an earthholder, to live and serve with interbeing in her heart, and finally, her deepest aspiration is that "Happy families will heal the world.