Trudy Goodman Kornfield, Ph.D., is is a Vipassana teacher in the Theravada lineage. She is the Founding Teacher of InsightLA, the first center dedicated to training in both contemporary mindfulness teachings and Buddhist meditation. Integrating real-life experience with the ancient teachings, Trudy teaches residential retreats and mindfulness internationally, from Asia to Africa.
Trudy has trained in both meditation and psychotherapy. She is co-founder and Guiding Teacher of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy and a contributing author of Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness (Springer, 2008); Compassion and Wisdom in Psychotherapy, (Guilford Press, 2011); and Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, (Guilford Press, 2013).