Meg Landers

Meg Landers, MSW, LCSW, has stayed engaged in Iyengar yoga, the arts, and meditation for over 40 years. A life-long learner, Meg is currently deepening her enduring commitment to practice as a mentee of two contemplative masters, Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, in their 2-year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program, a robust curriculum certified by the University of California at Berkeley. Meg brings a rich and varied background to both her Mindfulness teaching and her psychotherapy practice. During her Master’s program at Salem State University with a double concentration in Mental Health/ Aging and End of Life, she received the Recognition Award for Distinguished Service and the Best Mental Health Research Award for co-authoring, The role of self-efficacy, its influence on self-empowerment and advocacy groups in homeless populations.

Prior to focusing on Social Work and Mindfulness Studies, Meg received her B.A. in Fine Arts from Rochester Institute of Technology. She went on to do post-graduate work at Rhode Island School of Design, Haystack School of Art, Penland School of Art, and School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Meg has exhibited nationally and internationally, receiving commissions from both the corporate and non-profit sectors. Two of these commissions: “Our Stories: Meeting the Intellectually Disabled” (2012) and “Voices of the Homelessness” (2015) were exhibited at the Massachusetts State House and credited by state representatives from both sides of the aisle as having influenced their votes for the state's fiscal budget in favor of these concerns.

Additionally, Meg’s creative arts background enabled her to launch the Creativity Coach Program at LifeCare Advocates, MA. She was a featured speaker at the New England regional conference, presenting her practice model on Art-Based Coaching with a strength-focused perspective to support well-being for older adults and the disabled. Her unique Creativity Coach Program utilizes a range of holistic techniques and sensory art-making to improve cognition, positive emotional integration and communication.

Meg is the proud mother of two terrific young adults and lives in the Boston area.