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Diana Shimkus, LCSW is a California licensed psychotherapist actively practicing in Encinitas, California since 1985. As co-director of North Coast Counseling and founder of Everyday Mindfulness, Diana offers a variety of programs, courses and opportunities for mindfulness training to those experiencing the effects of life stressors such as physical illness and their treatments, life transitions, chronic pain and its management, anxiety, depression and the ordinary daily life stress that results from this very fact of being human. 

Diana has been teaching Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) since 1996 and has completed the seven-day health professional training and Teacher Development intensive (1998) through the University of Massachusetts, Center for Mindfulness. Since that time, Diana has continued to further her training and practice and commit her life’s work to cultivating and teaching mindfulness through a variety of settings including the San Diego Cancer Center, Scripps Research Institute, corporations, schools, hospice and other health care settings.

Diana also provides private individual, couples and family psychotherapy from her outdoor garden office in Encinitas, California.

Diana is devoted to the cultivation of mindful, compassionate and loving relationships with oneself and others in everyday life.  
Please contact Diana at diana@everydaymind.com or (760) 310-2920.