Wellness-Connect Faculty

Gina M. Biegel

Founder, Stressed Teens

Gina M. Biegel, LMFT, is a psychotherapist, researcher, speaker, and author who specializes in mindfulness-based work with adolescents. She has been offering mindfulness-based stress reduction for teens (MBSR-T) to adolescents, families, schools, professionals, and the community since 2004. Gina created MBSR-T to help teens in a large HMO’s outpatient department of child and adolescent psychiatry whose physical and psychological symptoms were not responding satisfactorily to a multitude of other evidence-based practices. 

Gina is the author of several works, including Be Mindful & Stress Less: 50 Ways to Deal with Your (Crazy) Life; A Workbook to Help Teens Reduce Stress and Enhance Performance and The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens: Mindfulness Skills to Help You Deal with Stress. Gina has been featured on the Today Show, CNN, Psychology Today, Reuters, the New York Times, and Tricycle.