Certifications & Degrees

 
 

Collaborations

  • SJSU: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Founder and Lead Instructor for Certificate in Applied Mindfulness

  • Elevate Your Health: Mental Wellness Facilitator, Living with Uncertainty and Mindfulness for Stress Reduction and Resilience Webinars

  • Corporate Clients: DMG Media, Aztec Group, Avanti, BofA, Teneo UK, OGUK, Abcam, Capricorn, Alliance Bernstein, and HSBC

  • NCEFT: Mindfulness-Based Equine-Assisted Therapies

  • OTAC: Mindfulness Retreats and Workshops

  • Dragonfly Healing Center DBA Ways of the Rising Woman: Transforming the Heart Workshops, Moving in the Light Retreat Teacher, and I'm on the Board of Directors

  • Dominican University: Mindfulness & Healing Course

  • Stanford Hospital: Developed Mindfulness in Fall Prevention Program

  • 1440 Multiversity: Lead multiple 3-day Mindfulness Retreats

  • Health & Wellness Channel Voice America: Revolutionary Wellness Talk Radio

  • Cancer CAREpoint: Developed Mindfulness and Palliative Care Program

  • Bay Area Pain & Wellness Center: Developed Mindfulness and Pain Management Program

 

Training

  • Saybrook University: Seeking Ph.D. in Transformative Social Change

  • SJSU: Master of Science in Occupational Therapy

  • CSUC: B.S. Kinesiology

  • UMASS Medical School Center for Mindfulness: MBSR

  • Awareness and Relaxation Training Mindfulness Programs: MBSR

  • Transformative Justice Training - various workshops

  • Ancestral & Cultural Trauma Healing - various workshops

  • Non-Violent Communication Training - various workshops

  • Spirit Rock: Intensive Mindfulness & Compassion Meditation Training

  • Saybrook University: Humanistic Psychology

  • Mount Madonna: MBSR and Yoga Training

  • Avalon Yoga International: 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training

  • Emotional Awareness & Conscious Parenting (Dan Siegel, Daniel Goleman, and various other training)

  • Grief Training with Frances Weller and various other workshops

  • Activism: (Bayo Akomolafe, Charles Eisenstein, and various others)

  • Somatics, Embodiment, and Healing Trauma with Bessel Van Der Kolk and various other workshops

  • Cultural Somatics with Tada Hozumi

 

Professional Publications

  • McLaughlin, R., & Giroux, J. (2017, 2023). Midwestern University’s OT and Mental Health, Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation.

  • McLaughlin, R., (2016, 2020, 2023). Pedretti’s Occupational Therapy for Physical Dysfunction, Mindfulness-Based Occupational Therapy and the Therapeutic Use of Self, 2020.

  • McLaughlin, R., & Hiley, J., (2018, 2023). Umphred’s Neurological Rehabilitation (7th Edition), Psychosocial Aspects of Adaptation and Adjustment to Disability.