Dianna Stencel, LCSW is the owner of Breathing Space: Mindfulness and Therapy. She is an experienced licensed clinical social worker who has been bringing mindfulness meditation to Loyola University Chicago’s students since 2002. She is training at the renowned Center for Mindfulness where admission to the program is limited to those with extensive professional experience and a solid meditation practice. She is the current vice-president of the Illinois Consortium of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy and Researchers. Additionally, she is a trained yoga teacher registered with the Yoga Alliance, completed a certificate in Yoga Informed Psychotherapy and have been teaching mindfulness interventions in her free time on research studies at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine