Kathleen (Kate) Mitcheom, M.S.N., C.N.M., R.Y.T., graduated from the Yale School of Nursing as a Nurse-Midwife in 1981. She has practiced women’s health care for 36 years at the Fair Haven Community Health Center, which motivated Kate to pursue areas of Integrative Medicine including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Energy Medicine, Yoga and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy.
Kate has been practicing meditation since 1991 and teaching meditation since 1995, after training at Omega with Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., and Saki Santorelli. In 1996, she founded the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program (MBSR) at the Fair Haven Community Health Center in New Haven, CT, where she taught meditation to pregnant women and their partners in the inner-city, and offered MBSR for patients with chronic and life-threatening illnesses.
In 1997, she was part of the first Teacher Development Intensive at the Center for MIndfulness at UMASS in Worcester, MA, and began teaching there in 2012. In 2017, she began teaching for Brown University where she is an adjunct faculty member.
Kate has also taught mindfulness to high school level students, and offers consulting, conference presentations, and staff development training for hospitals, health centers, schools and universities throughout Connecticut, New England and internationally. Kate also leads Mindfulness-Based Travel retreats to countries around the world. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher in the Anusara style, and completed and was certified as an Energy Medicine Practitioner after four years of study at the Institute for Healing Arts and Sciences.
Kate lives in Branford, CT where she and her husband of over thirty years raised their three children.
Gratitude
I wish to express my gratitude to the following amazing teachers that I have been lucky enough to develop my practice with:
- Anusara Yoga Teacher Training, New York, New York. May 2003
- Yoga Teacher Training, 200 hour basic training with Todd Norian, Phoenix Rising Yoga Center, West Stockbridge, MA, Jan.-May 2002
- Teacher Development Intensive for Advanced Mindfulness Instructors, sponsored by the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society. University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Spring 1997.
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Training for Health Care Professionals, Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Rhinebeck New York. Instructors: Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. and Saki Santorelli, Ed.D. June 1995.
- Internship in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Fair Haven Community Health Center, New Haven, CT. Preceptor: Beth Roth M.S.N. Fall 1995
- Life Death and Transition, 7 day workshop with Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Escondido, CA. Oct. 1983
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
- College of Saint Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota. B.A. Nursing conferred May 20, 1973
- Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, CT. M.S.N. , Maternal Newborn Nursing/Nurse-midwifery conferred May 1981.
- Institute of Healing and Sciences, Hartford, CT. Energy Medicine, Sept. 2004-May 2008
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
- Certification Training, Yoga for Osteoporosis with Dr. Loren Fishman and Ellen Saltonstall, Chicago February 2017
- Mindful Self Compassion Training with Kristen Neff and Christopher Germer June 2016
- Mindfulness-based Relapse Prevention with Joel Grow, Omega August 2016
- Integrated Study and Practice Program with Andrew Olendzki and Gloria Ambrosia Barre Center for Buddhist Studies August 2013-May 2014
- Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy Training with Susan Woods Center for Mindfulness, University of Massachusetts Medical Center 2012
- Anusara Yoga Teacher Training with John Friend, New York, New York. May 2003
- Yoga Teacher Training, 200 hour basic training with Todd Norian, Phoenix Rising Yoga Center, West Stockbridge, MA, Jan.-May 2002
- Teacher Development Intensive for Advanced Mindfulness Instructors, sponsored by the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society. University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Spring 1997.
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Training for Health Care Professionals, Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Rhinebeck New York. Instructors: Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. and Saki Santorelli, Ed.D. June 1995.
- Internship in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Fair Haven Community Health Center, New Haven, CT. Preceptor: Beth Roth M.S.N. Fall 1995
- Storytelling, Connecticut College, New London, CT. Spring Semester 1996
- Reiki Level One Training, New Haven, CT., Spring 1996 Reiki Level Two Training, Branford, CT., Spring 2004
- Life Death and Transition, 7 day workshop with Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Escondido, CA. Oct. 1983
CLINICAL PRACTICE
- Department Chair, Nurse Midwifery Service, Fair Haven Community Health Center, New Haven, CT July 1995-Present
- Certified Nurse Midwife, Fair Haven Community Health Center, New Haven, CT. July 1981-Present. Full scope midwifery services with deliveries at Yale New Haven Hospital and the Hospital of St. Raphael.
- Senior Midwife and service director July 1986 – Present
- Primary care for adolescents, Wilbur Cross High School, Body Shop (School Based Health Center). New Haven. CT September 1996 – Present
- Head Nurse Critical Care for the National Institutes of Health, Civil Service GS-11. Bethesda, Maryland. January – September 1979
- United States Navy Nurse Corps, Hospital Supervisor for evening and night shifts, Guam Naval Regional Medical Center May 1977-September 1978
- Registered nurse for labor and delivery, postpartum and newborn nursery. Guam Naval Regional Medical Center July 1977-September 1978
- Head Nurse for a 36 bed medical unit, Oakland Naval Regional Medical Center, January 1976 – May 1977
- Registered nurse in critical care, coronary care, and hemodialysis. Oakland Naval Regional Medical Center September 1973- January 1976.
FACULTY AND TEACHING POSITIONS
- Certified Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Teacher; Adjunct faculty at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center 2013- Present
- MBSR for Adolescents, Foreman School, Litchfield, CT 2014
- MBSR at the Copper Beech Institute 2015-2016
- MBI-TAC Prompt Study, Oxford University 2017
- Faculty Mentor, UCSD Center for Mindfulness 2016-Present
- Faculty Mentor, University of Toronto 2016-Present
- MBSR Facilitator for Research Project Yale University Center for Emotional Intelligence 2015-2016
- Clinical Instructor, Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, CT. 1982 – Present
- Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Program, Fair Haven Community Health Center, New Haven, CT. 1997 – Present
- Instructor, Fairfield University School of Nursing, Fairfield, CT. 1997-1998 Lectures to masters level nursing students on the applications of mindfulness- based stress reduction in clinical practice.
- Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction for Teen Mothers, Wilbur Cross High School, School Based Health Center, New Haven, CT. 1996-1998.
- Co-creator and Instructor for Group Prenatal Stress Reduction, Fair Haven Community Health Center, New Haven, CT. 1997 – Present
- Prenatal Yoga, Raven’s Wing Yoga , Branford, CT 2002- Present
- Mom and Baby Yoga, Guilford Women and Family Life Center 2003 The Yoga Studio, Branford CT 2003-2004
- Yoga for Stress Reduction and MBSR, Raven’s Wing Yoga, Branford, CT 2002- Present
- Published contributor to Happify
PROFESSIONAL LICENSES
- Minnesota Registered Nurse License inactive
- California Registered Nurse License inactive
- Maryland Registered Nurse License inactive
- Connecticut Registered Nurse License #R-32988
- Connecticut Licensed Midwife License #00021
- Registered Yoga Teacher Registry ID: 186478
UNPUBLISHED WORKS
- Master’s Thesis: Yale School of Nursing. “Parenting Education for Expectant Parents” 1981
- Journal for Mindfulness, “MBSR in the context of Group Prenatal Care” Spring 1998
- Mindfulness-based Yoga for Stress Reduction 2016
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- Mindfulness in the School, Consultant Bridge Academy , Bridgeport CT 2016-2017
- Mindfulness for School Social Work Interns, Wilber Cross High School 2016-2017
- Out of Your Mind? Get into Your Body, A Mindful Society Conference, University of Toronto April 2017
- Mindfulness in the Workplace, Liberty Insurance Company, Boston MA March 2017
- Mindfulness at Work, Organizational Performance Group, New Haven CT October 2016
- Television Talk Show: Better Health, “Working Mothers”, New Haven, CT. Fall 1982
- Head Start Teachers, “Uses for Mindfulness in Working with Children” New Haven, CT. Fall 1997
- Workshop for People and their Families with HIV, Bridgeport Community Health Center, Bridgeport, CT. Spring 1999
- Inservice Training in Mindfulness for Ob/Gyn Staff, New Haven, CT. Fall 1998
- Inservice for Middle School Teacher in Mindfulness, Fair Haven Middle School, New Haven CT. Spring 1999
- Mindfulness in Prison, Manson Correctional Center for Adolescent Males, Cheshire CT. Winter 2000
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction; Life Skills for the Midwife and Her Clients, American College of Nurse Midwives Workshop, Anchorage, AK. May 2000
- MBSR for the Nurse Midwife and Her Clients, Camden ME. July 2000
- Day of Mindfulness, Psychology Networkers Conference, Washington DC, March 2005
- The Use of Storytelling as a Tool for Teaching MBSR, 4th Annual Conference: Integrating Mindfulness-Based Interventions into Medicine, Health Care, and Society for Clinicians, Researchers and Educators. Worcester, MA March 2006
- Yoga for MBSR Teachers 18th, 19th and 20th Annual Conference: Integrating Mindfulness-based Interventions into Medicine, Health Car and Society for Clinicians, Researchers and Educators, Worcester, MA 2011-2014
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS
- Chapter Chair, American College of Nurse Midwives, Region 2. 1982 – 1984.
- Member, American College of Nurse Midwives. 1981 – Present