Dr Nicole Eisen

Nicole is interested in the impact of mindfulness and compassion on mental health, wellbeing, and prosociality

Staff details

Dr Nicole Eisen

Position

Lecturer in Psychology

Department

Psychology

Email

N.Eisen (@gold.ac.uk)

I am a Lecturer in Psychology at Goldsmiths and a mindfulness and compassion teacher and mindfulness teacher-trainer.

Academic qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Psychology, King’s College London
  • MA Philosophy of Religion, King’s College London
  • BSc (Hons) Psychology, University of Bath

Teaching and supervision

I can provide supervision for students wishing to undertake projects on mindfulness, compassion, or prosociality. I can supervise quantitative or qualitative projects. I can provide research guidance for projects conducted in schools.

Research interests

My research and teaching interests include:
• The science of meditation
• Research methods in meditation research
• The science of compassion
• The development of prosociality
• Mindfulness as a therapeutic approach
• The mechanisms of mindfulness
• Mindfulness and compassion as foundations for those learning third wave therapeutic approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)
• Mindfulness of dream and sleep (including lucid dreaming)

Featured publications

Professional projects

I am currently a trial therapist for the University of Cambridge on the ATTEND trial, a multi-site, large-scale, randomised-controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of an adapted form of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for adolescents with depression and their carers.

I am an Associate Trainer for Mindfulness in Schools Project.

I teach the following courses:
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
• Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living
• The Mindfulness in Schools Project curricula