Alison Keane is a Brisbane psychotherapist, writer and mindfulness educator.

In 2007, she travelled to the United States to study and experience

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) under the direction of Drs Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli. Dr Kabat-Zinn is the founder of MBSR and founding teacher of Oasis, an international learning centre for clinicians, researchers and educators engaging in mindfulness-based approaches and interventions.

Earlier in 2001, Alison's curiosity about the healing pathways of Eastern traditions including Buddhism and Hatha Yoga drew her to an unconventional decision, at the time, to study as a hatha yoga and remedial yoga teacher. This training and her personal yoga practice in the tradition of Iyengar, and later Astanga Yoga significantly deepened her understanding and appreciation of the relationship between mind and body.

In her efforts to distill classical yoga and present it in a way that reaches a wide audience including newcomers, Alison has studied its application within a therapeutic setting, and has been influenced  by esteemed teachers such as TKV Desikacher, Swami Shankarananda (Shiva School of Yoga), Godfrey Devereux and Iyengar yoga’s Alan Goode.

Alison's experience as a mindfulness educator is informed by a personal meditation practice and application within her private counselling work of solution-focused narrative therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)and humanistic psychology.

Her counselling clients include women and men who have experienced and survived psychological and physical abuse within intimate relationships. Alison has worked as a counsellor at Brisbane's Buddhist palliative care hospice Karuna and continues to work as a domestic violence counsellor in private practice.

"Finding the strength to leave a difficult relationship, and then learning to become a whole person, to laugh and to trust once more takes courage. It also involves taking the risk to be open again, as before, to whatever arises in each moment...."

Alison's commitment to understanding the psycho-physical nature of anxiety, stress and other issues that overwhelm people in today’s world is reflected in her on-going work in the Queensland secondary school system, within Queensland Health and in the corporate sector in South East Qld.