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 a personal yoga practice has deepened her understanding and appreciation of the mind body relationship.

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 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.

"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 risking opening one's heart again..."

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 South East Queensland corporate sector.

Alison Keane is PACFA Registered