Profile

Dr. Steven Hickman is the Executive Director of the non-profit Center for Mindful Self-Compassion and its Director of Professional Training. He is a Clinical Psychologist and Associate Clinical Professor in the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, as well as the Founding Director of the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. Steve co-developed the Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher Training program (along with Michelle Becker and MSC co-founders Christopher Germer and Kristin Neff), and has participated in the training of over 700 MSC teachers around the world. Steve has co-taught the 8-week and intensive MSC program many times around the globe and is also a Certified teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and trains teachers of that program. He is married and has three young adult children, affording him ample opportunity to practice what he teaches!