About
About Gina Rubinsky
About Gina Rubinsky, Psychologist, Certified Yoga Teacher, M.Ed., O.P.Q., K.Y.T.
Gina Rubinsky is a registered Montreal based psychologist in private practice, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Facilitator and Certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher. She has been specializing in the area of stress management for the last 20 years in Montreal and Ottawa. She created Living Arts in 2000 which provides mindfulness based psychotherapy, individual and group yoga and meditation classes, mindfulness-based stress reduction programs (individual and group), meditation retreats and workshops. Professional talks and trainings are also available to organizations, hospitals, educational institutions, community groups and businesses that are seeking to provide support and stress management to its staff.
As a psychologist, mindfulness meditation teacher, MBSR facilitator and Kripalu certified yoga instructor, Gina integrates mindfulness and meditation in her work, supporting individuals in being able to connect with their own inner strengths, resources, resiliency, compassion and wisdom.
Gina’s unique personalized and caring approach, whether in groups or in private sessions, places the individual’s unique needs and goals as a priority. This has become the priority in all of the services offered by Living Arts.
A yoga and mindfulness meditation practitioner since 1990, Gina became inspired to share these practices as healing modalities given the profound and life changing benefits she experienced during her own health challenges. Her own journey inspired her to receive training as a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction facilitator in 2000. She was amongst the first to introduce the MBSR program to Montreal in 2000 after having completed an internship at the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness in Worcester Massachusetts under the direction of Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Gina feels privileged to continue to witness the personal transformation of the clients she has worked with over the years and feels deeply committed to continue to support individuals in empowering them in taking a proactive role in their own healing.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, Concordia University
- Master of Education in Counselling: McGill University, Montreal
- Individual Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Certificate: Argyle Institute, Montreal
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Teacher Certification: Center for Mindfulness, University of Massachusetts Medical Health Care Center, Worcester, Massachusetts
- Certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher: Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Lenox, Massachusetts
- Professional Training in the Management of Chronic Pain: Quebec Order Of Psychologists, Montreal
- Professional Training in Mindfulness Based Psychotherapy, Tara Brach, Washington, D.C.
- Member of the Professional Order of Psychologists of Quebec, O.P.Q.
