Annelies De Zaeytijd

Annelies De Zaeytijd is a clinical psychologist, psychodynamic psychotherapist and mindfulness trainer. Through her practice, Mindtraining, she helps people strengthen their resilience with skills from psychology: mindfulness, heartfulness, focusing and acceptance. She describes her aim as coaching people in self-care and resilience, so they can better meet the challenges life brings.

Her training includes a master's in clinical psychology and a master's in comparative cultural sciences. She is also a facilitator of Feeding Your Demons. She introduces herself as an enthusiastic, passionate doer, and says mindfulness helps her bring calm and space into her life and pause now and then to see where she stands and where she wants to go.

According to her Insight Timer teacher page, she has worked as a psychologist and psychotherapist since 2001 and as a mindfulness trainer and meditation coach since 2013. Her coaching helps people see more clearly the preconscious thoughts, emotions and body sensations that arise during meditation, through inquiry. Her anthropological research on the structure and flow of learning environments in traditions led her to develop online learning environments for meditation, for clients and for mental health professionals in Belgium.

Her own practice began in 1995, when she was first coached in meditation in Thailand. She continued in traditional Tibetan Buddhism and in 2015 deepened her practice during a sabbatical year in monasteries and mountains in Asia.

She teaches through group programmes, multi-day retreats and an online practice garden. Its exercises cover mindfulness, heartfulness, working with thoughts and emotions, focusing, and living by one's values.