Rochelle Calvert (Voth), Ph.D., CMT, SEP, BCBA-D, is the founder of New Mindful Life. She has studied mindfulness for the past 16 years and has taught classes, courses, workshops, and retreats. Rochelle leads classes/courses/seminars in Six-week Introductory Training in Mindfulness, (S.I.T.), Awake in the Wild- Nature-Based Mindfulness retreats, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Mindfulness Based Eating, Mindful Parenting and Mindful Workplace. She also facilitates professional trainings in mindfulness for clinicians and travels the country teaching seminars for PESI. She also works as clinical psychologist in private practice in San Diego.
Rochelle offers mindfulness, nature-based therapy and somatic experiencing as a psychologist with New Mindful Life. Her therapeutic approach includes teaching people individual mindfulness meditations- both indoors and outdoors- specific to their unique concerns to support healing. She also integrates somatic experiencing healing (body based healing through nervous system reorganization) with the mindfulness and nature based meditation practices. Rochelle has therapeutic specialty areas of training to support integration of these services to individuals struggling with life transitions, depression, anxiety, PTSD, pain conditions, eating disorders, as well as families of developmentally delayed children/adults.
Rochelle’s mindfulness meditation journey begun over 16 years ago. She was introduced to mindfulness via an MBSR course during her clinical training. Over the years she has cultivated her own personal mindfulness practice by establishing a daily mindfulness practice, attending yearly silent retreats and participating in mindfulness trainings. She practices mindfulness based meditation rooted in the Buddhist Theravada Tradition. She has also studied mindfulness in nature with Mark Coleman, and practices meditation in nature daily.
Her mindfulness, nature, somatic therapy is offered to support individuals in learning to heal their own suffering. The use of the support from local nature locations, the sprinter therapy van as well as an office room space provides options for healing settings that can be tailored for the unique needs of her clients. She teaches with warmth, compassion, kindness and openness to encourage others to explore the teachings of mindfulness to cultivate a more easeful way of living.
Training received:
Certified Mindfulness Teacher, CMT- International Mindfulness Teachers Association (IMTA) & Mindfulness Training Institute (MTI): Mark Coleman (Spirit Rock Teacher Council) and Martin Alyward (founder of the Tapovan Dharma Community and Moulin De Chaves in South West France)
Certified Awake in the Wild Mindfulness Teacher- AITW facilitator, Awake in the Wild training, Mark Coleman.
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, SEP, Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute
UMASS Medical Center in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
UCSD Center for Mindfulness. Former professional training director for the UCSD Center for Mindfulness.
