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Petra Spiteri is an accredited mindfulness trainer for adults and children, a certified Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Practitioner, and trained in Mindful Self–Compassion. She runs mindfulness courses to help clients to reduce anxiety, stress, reactivity, and worry and improve emotional awareness and resilience. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy can significantly reduce relapse in people who have had previous episodes of major depression. Mindfulness-based interventions may reduce pain, fatigue, and stress in people with chronic pain. Petra is currently reading for a Masters degree in gestalt psychotherapy to add to her resources to support others.

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy involves the use of interactive sessions. Training is done on understanding our emotions, learning to meditate, and also using our senses to slow down and bring more non-judgemental awareness to the present moment. Corporate motivational sessions are also provided for an idea of the role of mindfulness from an experiential and informative stance, to empower others to live with more emotional resilience. Corporate past clients include Malta Medicines Authority, William Hill, KafeRocks, Farsons, Agenzija Sapport and Evolve Ltd.

Petra can be contacted through her Facebook page.

Dr. Daniela Zammit is a psychiatrist working with Mental Health Services in Malta. Her special interest lies in suicide prevention, involving herself in service development, research, and education. She is a licensed trainer with the Zero Suicide Institute of America, delivering courses entitled “Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk©” (AMSR©) to all mental health professionals and gatekeepers. Moreover, Dr Zammit is passionate about spreading awareness on suicide care, teaching students sitting for their Masters’ Degree in Mental Health on suicide risk assessments as well as offering supervision on research projects. Outside of her professional career, she enjoys trekking, physical exercise, and swimming as part of her selfcare.

Marcia Gafa’ is a Senior Lecturer teaching nursing and health at the Institute of Applied Science, Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST). After qualifying as a psychiatric nurse 2000, she continued to profess both professionally and academically and has received her PhD in Education with the focus on continuous professional development and lifelong learning following qualification. Marcia has been an active member within the psychiatric and mental health community as a board member on the Maltese Association for Psychiatric Nursing and has sat as a board member for Horatio: European Psychiatric Nursing association. Her current recent interests are in professional development, curriculum development, the application of mental health nursing within the wider context of health, mental health nursing with a particular focus on acute care and nursing theories.

Steffi is a warranted counselling psychologist in private practice and a senior Visiting Lecturer at University of Malta.  Her areas of interest and experience include personality disorders, trauma, grief and children using play techniques. She is currently furthering her studies in the field of perinatal and infant mental health. Steffi has a special interest in improving the relationship between parents and their children as well as coping with perinatal and antenatal loss. She is also an Parent Infant Interaction Observation Scale Accredited Practitioner.

Marie Noelle recently graduated from the University of Malta with a Master of Psychology in Counselling Psychology. Marie Noelle has been working with Richmond Foundation for the past 8 years, and has served in many of Richmond’s services such as KIDs, Community Support Services and Villa Chelsea. Presently Marie Noelle serves as a rehabilitation manager at Villa Chelsea. Areas of interest include mental health, trauma, attachment and addiction disorders among others.

Dr Camileri is a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and on the executive committee of the Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry Special Interest Group (NDPSIG), currently working in Malta having previously been a clinical academic psychiatrist in Newcastle. He is a triathlete and is introducing sport psychiatry to Malta. He is an expert on ADHD and Autism and trains professionals on diagnosing autism.

Jasmine graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology (Honours) from the University of Malta and went on to read for a Master’s in Sport, Exercise & Performance Psychology from the University of Limerick, and a Master’s in Health Psychology from the University of St Andrew’s in the UK. Her interest in health and sport stemmed from an early age, growing up immersed in an active lifestyle. She eventually became a qualified swimming instructor, conveying swimming skills and promoting sports to both children and adults of varying abilities, helping them believe in their own abilities to face and overcome challenges whilst boosting their own confidence, physical ability and mental strength.

Arianne graduated from the University of Malta with a Bachelor in Psychology (Honours) in 2011. She worked with children, adolescents, and adults with intellectual and neurodevelopmental disabilities. She went on to occupy the role of services manager where she facilitated in the setting up and running of services provided to adults with disabilities or mental health difficulties to find and maintain employment. In the meantime, Arianne also furthered her studies and obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Systemic Family Therapy in 2015 and a Master of Arts in Disability Studies in 2017. In 2019 she pursued a Masters in Clinical Psychology at the University of Malta. As part of her studies, Arianne researched the therapeutic journey of individuals engaging in self-harm.
Arianne is presently employed as a psychology practitioner with the local mental health services with children and adolescents. She is also a part-time visiting lecturer at the University of Malta and has worked on several local research projects focusing on early intervention, employment and disability. She has also formed part of the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Heath (ACAMH) Malta since 2018. On a personal level, Arianne likes to lead a very active lifestyle. She danced ballet for 23 years, spent several years volunteering as a cub scout leader and now enjoys running and gym. She is also involved with a local football club where she supports the running of a women’s football team.