Trish Magyari, MS, CGC, MS, LCPC, NCC, RYT-200 is a mindfulness and self-compassion-based psychotherapist, Genetic Counselor, Certified MBSR teacher/researcher/retreat leader, Certified MSC Teacher, Insight Meditation Teacher, MMTCP/MBSR mentor, and LifeForce yoga practitioner based in Baltimore, MD, specializing in anxiety, trauma, adaptation to illness, chronic pain, disability, and loss. She has a Master’s degree in Genetic Counseling (1981), a second Master’s in Clinical Community Counseling (JHU, 2009), and is a licensed professional counselor in the State of Maryland in private practice.  She has 40 years of meditation experience, has taught the MBSR 8-week series more than 100 times, and is trained in MBSR, MBCT, MSC and mindfulness-based and compassion-based psychotherapy.  

First trained in MBSR in 1987, she completed the UMASS MBSR Teacher Development Intensive, their highest level of professional mindfulness training, in 2000; since then she has developed curriculum for and been the interventionist in 12 successful clinical trials at NIH, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and University of Maryland Center for Integrative Medicine.  These studies documented mindfulness and self-compassion practices as reducing anxiety, depression and PTSD symptoms for persons with chronic pain due to hereditary connective tissue disorders, for persons with arthritis, for at-risk adolescents, for adolescents who are HIV positive, for women with complex PTSD due to childhood sexual trauma, for those with unremiting migraines, and for mother's of babies in the NICU.  

Trish has written two book chapters derived from these research studies, focused on her trauma-informed and healing engaged manner of teaching mindfulness-based interventions.  "Teaching mindfulness to women with complex trauma" in Mindfulness-Oriented Interventions for Trauma: Integrating Contemplative Practices (Guildford Press, Jan 2015).  A second chapter, "Teaching Individuals with Traumatic Stress" has been  published  "Resources for Teaching Mindfulness: An International Handbook" (2016), edited by Don McCown and Diane Reibel. Provides an overview of her universal guidelines for teaching in a trauma-informed and healing engaged manner, as well as further refinements for teaching to dedicated groups for those with traumatic stress histories.

Fall 2021: Building on a life-time of social justice work and advocacy, I am committed to anti-racism and equity for all including those in the BIPOC and LGBTQ communities. In the past 2 years I have taken multiweek trainings from White Awake; from Chrystal Johnson/East Bay Meditation Center; a 6 week course on the book Biased; and recently completed Ruth King's yearlong Racial Affinity Group program based on her book Mindful of Race.

Fall 2018 Update:  For the past 12 years, my work has focused on offering trauma-informed and healing engaged mindfulness and self-compassion workshops, trainings and retreats for health and mental health practitioners as well as other MBSR and mindfulness teachers. Please see my new blog posts which focus on my trauma-informed and healing engaged mindfulness work as well as a list publications for projects that I developed the curriculum for or was the teacher/interventionist, and the two professional book chapters that I've written on teaching mindfulness in a trauma-informed and healing engaged manner. I have been humbled by the work of other teachers and therapists who have used the trauma-informed and healing-engaged curriculum and guidelines I've developed to create their own ground-breaking mindfulness projects in VA hospitals, domestic violence shelters, pain clinics, hospitals, programs for those affected by sexual trauma and even refugee camps in South Sudan.  I have had the honor of mentoring many teacher-therapists in the development or delivery of their projects--work I find extremely gratifying.  If this is a role that I could play for your trauma-informed or trauma-focused mindfulness project, please contact me. 

Trish has been offering professional trainings in mindfulness-based therapies, including a practicum, apprenticeship and supervision since 2004.  Nearly 100 professionals have completed her 48 hour professional practicum in mindfulness-based therapies.  Since 2009, Trish has been teaching the mindfulness component to first year medical students at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the required Integrated Medicine course.  She has also taught the MBSR course twice at the JH School of Nursing, as well as a practicum in mindfulness-based therapies for nursing faculty. 

As a genetic counselor, Trish focuses on grief counseling, helping families and individual's adapt to chronic health conditions, and facilitating decision-making regarding genetic conditions and/or genetic testing in her private practice.  From 1997 - 2013 she trained Master's level genetic counseling students in psychosocial counseling skills, grief counseling, disability awareness, self-awareness, and professional development through the NIH/JHU Genetic Counseling Training Program as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the JHU Bloomberg School Of Public Health. 

Besides Trish's academic credentials, she has studied both Eastern and Western forms of contemplative practice since adolescence and has been a longtime student of mind-body medicine generally, and body-oriented psychotherapies specifically.  She has extensive training in many forms of meditation, yoga, guided imagery/visualization, bio-energetics, chanting, and authentic movement.   Trish completed the LifeForce Yoga Level 1 Practitioner training in January 2011 and completed the 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training program at Baltimore Yoga Village in 2012.  She is a practicing Quaker as well as a teacher with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (IMCW) through which she has led a weekly Insight Meditation/mindfulness/self-compassion  practice group since 2005 as well as local retreats.  Trish herself has completed over 20 5-day or longer retreats, including two six-week retreats (1995, self-retreat and 2007, IMS), with approximately 350 retreat days.  Retreat teachers include Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Sylvia Boorstein, Sharon Saltzberg, Larry Rosenberg, Ajahn Amaro, Lama Surya Das,  Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Jon Kabat-Zinn and Thich Nhat Hanh--who gave Trish the dharma name "Reverent Teaching of the Heart".

In collaboration with Diane Reibel, PhD, Trish has been leading retreats and trainings specifically for MBSR/MBCT/MSC teachers and others involved in bringing mindfulness into the world since 2004.  Their successful year-long program, The Mindful Journey, supports other MBSR teachers, classroom teachers, doctors, nurses and therapists to deepen their practice both for themselves and in their work with others and is a model for this type of long-term training.  The Mindful Journey includes two weekend retreats, bi-monthly day-long retreats, bi-monthly small group gatherings, weekly "buddy" meetings, and seven individual sessions with one the two teachers. 

Trish and Diane also lead targeted retreats for women, including their April 2011 weekend mindfulness retreat for "Women Touched by Cancer".  This retreat was for women diagnosed with cancer, women who are care-givers to persons with cancer, as well as women from hereditary cancer families. 

During her year-long internship in mindfulness-based psychotherapy (under the supervision of Margaret Chesney, PhD, clnical psychologist) at University of Maryland Center for Integrative Medicine, Trish worked intensively with both individuals and groups with depression, anxiety, trauma and chronic pain using approaches steeped in positive psychology and mindfulness-based psychotherapy.  She has adapted the MBSR course to be applicable to persons with chronic pain issues, for teens, and for those who have PTSD and trauma histories, presenting her work at the annual UMASS MBSR conference on these and other topics.

In 2013, Trish was the Director of the Joy Wellness Center at Shepherds Clinic, a component of Union Memorial Hospital.  There she oversaw the programming and operations of this large wellness center for an uninsured urban community in Baltimore City, as well as taught MBSR, Life Force Yoga, chair yoga, stress reduction classes and smoking cessation courses.  Trish supervised and managed over 20 volunteer integrative health practitioners (acupuncture, massage, yoga, nutrition, organic gardening),  a volunteer adminstration staff of over 25 and a full-time admin. assistant.

"I delight in helping others to increase their sense of wholeness and well-being in the world, and to find peace and contentment in the midst of life’s difficult challenges. Please contact me for further information and  availability to help you reach your personal or professional goals."