Marta Alonso

Marta Alonso
Board Member

Marta Alonso is Licensed Clinical Psychologist specialized in mindfulness and
compassion treatments and European Expert in Psychotherapy by the European
Federation of Psychologists Associations, having obtained Europsy certification. She is an MSC Teacher Trainer and Mentor and the first certified teacher in the Spanish language.

Marta has taught more than 60 MSC courses since 2012, which she introduced in
Spanish speaking language, being a pioneer in taking compassion programs in
Iberoamerica. She has improved the teacher training pathway with other trainers
creating the Teacher Training Practicum and some new policies and devotes lot of time to train Self Compassion teachers along the world. She is co-founder of the Red Española de Programas Estandarizados de Mindfulness y Compasión and teaches mindfulness and compassion in clinical practice in several universities in Spain. She joined the Center for MSC Board of Directors in 2018 as the only European member at that moment, to bring an international, culturally diverse and more global perspective, her intention in the Board has always been helping the non-American organizations (mainly European and Latin) that offer MSC teacher training and teachers’ communities to be seen and heard into CMSC.