About Us

Established in 2012, Mindfulness Liverpool provides expertise in mental health and wellbeing throughout Liverpool and the North West.

Our team is small and specialised, allowing us to bring a personal approach to the work we do.

We genuinely care about our clients. We do this work because we know it makes a difference in people’s lives.

Our Core Values

Integrity

Integrity is everything to us. Our work is informed by research and ongoing training. Inner integrity is important to us as well, so be assured that we practice what we preach. We teach from experience, sharing practices that have worked for us. We walk our talk.

Kindness

At the heart of our work is, well, heart. Much of therapy and mindfulness is a process of learning to befriend ourselves and that’s not always easy! It’s crucial to be gentle with ourselves during this process. Therefore, kindness underpins every part of our work.

Creativity

Every person and every moment is different. Because of this, we believe must always listen, learn, and creatively adapt to who we're with. We want every moment of our work to be imbued with aliveness and presence. We build responsiveness into our work from the ground up.

Dave J. Spencer
Founder

Dave is a counsellor, psychotherapist, CBT therapist and mindfulness specialist. He holds a Masters of Science degree, with Distinction, in Mindfulness from The University of Aberdeen and a Post-Graduate Diploma, with Distinction, in Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Dave regularly brings his expertise in wellbeing to a wide range of organisations. He has worked extensively with universities and colleges across the North West as a teacher, therapist and lecturer.

Dave is known for his specialism in mindfulness-based practices. He teachers mindfulness for many different organisations, as well as working extensively as a mindfulness trainer for Breathworks CIC – one of the leading mindfulness organisations in Europe.

Gillian Torres
Business Manager

Gillian is an marketing consultant, business consultant, and entrepreneur. She works with a wide range individuals and organisations, alonside developing community focused entrepeneurial projects. Gillian brings her business and creative skills to Mindfulness Liverpool, helping us connect with and help our clients.

Gillian is also a writer and author. She is an experienced mindfulness practitioner and teaches courses and workshops on mindfulness and therapeutic writing.

Keith Harvey
Associate

As well as being a highly experienced mindfulness teacher and trainer, accredited in several approaches to mindfulness, and a person-centred counsellor, accredited with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and a qualified counselling supervisor, with experience of working as a therapist in schools, the NHS, with homeless young people, and with the LGBT community.

Keith has been meditating and practicing mindfulness for more than 15 years and is interested in the secular applications of mindfulness practice for individuals, in the workplace and in schools. Prior to his work in mindfulness, therapy and counselling, Keith worked as a university lecturer in linguistics, French literature and translation and has a PhD from the University of Manchester.

Keith is well known for his kind, thoughtful presence, which comes through in all his work.

Gina Torres
Associate

Gina works for Mindfulness Liverpool delivering movement based classes, workshops and training. She delivers our extremely popular Mindful Movement and Yoga workshops and has a fantastic reputation, throughout the North West, as a teacher of hatha, vinyasa, pregnancy, post natal and baby yoga. She is also passionate about working with women, sharing menstruality knowledge and practices and teaching womb yoga.

A consummate professional, Gina has extensive experience of working in corporate environments. She delivers regular yoga classes throughout the city for organisations including tech start-ups and large corporate firms. She also works one-to-one, or with small groups of busy professionals in their own office environments.

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