School of Good Listening
Everyday Mental Health Tools to Support Your Emotional Resilience, Authentic Expression, and Ease of Connection with Others.
What we believe in
We can all access the better parts of our human nature if we embark on the humble task of optimising the quality of our listening.
Good listening is a foundational skill in self-knowledge, healthy relationships, and bridging differences. To listen well, we must have the tools to experience a calm and regulated inner state.
Good listening is a foundational skill in self-knowledge, healthy relationships, and bridging differences. To listen well, we must have the tools to experience a calm and regulated inner state.
We are Doctors of Clinical Psychology with a wealth of experience treating individuals and groups from diverse backgrounds with wide ranging mental health difficulties.
TheSchoolofGoodListeningbelieveswecanallaccessthebetterpartsofourhumannatureifweembarkonthehumbletaskofoptimisingthequalityofourlistening.
About us
Meet | Dr. Ana Carina Maloney
Dr. Ana Carina Maloney is a US and UK trained Clinical Psychologist (PsyD) and Coach with a special interest in mindfulness-, and compassion-based approaches. To find out more, click here
Affiliations
- Health and Care Professions Council - HCPC registered
- British Psychological Society - BPS
- Mindfulness in Schools Project – MiSP
- Compassionate Mind Foundation
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Association - Germany
Meet | Dr. Katrin Scanlan
Dr. Katrin Scanlan is a Clinical Psychologist who completed her doctoral training in the UK (DClinPsych). After working in the public health care system in the UK, she set up a private practice in the South of France offering therapy and psychometric assessments. To find out more, click here
Affiliations
- British Psychological Society - BPS
- Fédération Française des Psychologues et de la Psychologie - FFPP
- EMDR Europe
Whether you want to follow the steps of the Listening Process, dip into our blog, expand your knowledge via our Personal Growth Library or take part in our local talks, trainings, or groups, this website features carefully curated content you can access in a way that suits you.
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Discover How Our Support Has Impacted
Our Clients’ Lives
Ana has been the most incredible support to me over 5 years, during a time of severe change in my life. She has been a constant source of relief, comfort, and reassurance and I look forward to every session. I will forever be grateful for her and all of her wisdom.
– India, 32
Our most asked questions
01.How can I join your local talks, trainings, and groups?
Please fill in the contact form and specify your interest. We will follow up with an email.
02.Do you offer individual therapy?
We offer in-person and online individual therapy. Please contact our individual websites if this is what you are seeking:
www.katrinscanlan.com (Dr. Scanlan)
www.mindfulcoach.eu (Dr. Maloney)
03.What languages do you speak?
We are both fluent in English and German. Dr. Scanlan is also fluent in French.
04.Is what is discussed in your groups confidential?
We cannot guarantee confidentiality but we ask all participants to respect confidentiality at the outset of all of our groups and events.
05.What is the cost of your groups?
The costs of our groups vary. We can provide details on the group you wish to join.
06.Do you give talks or shorter trainings?
Yes. We organise short talks and half-day workshops.
07.Do you take insurance?
We cannot guarantee that insurance will cover our talks, trainings, and groups. Our individual therapy work is covered in some cases.
08.What free content can I access?
You can sign up for our newsletter and peruse our personal growth library.
09.What Are Your Areas of Expertise?
We are well-versed in Psychoanalytic Theory, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), EMDR, Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), Systemic Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), Applied Polyvagal Theory (Porges), Interpersonal Neurobiology (Siegel), Compassionate Inquiry (Mate), Mindful Self-Compassion (Neff and Germer), Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Systemic Approaches. These are briefly explained here:
10.What is Psychoanalytic Theory?
It focuses on identifying and releasing unconscious repressed feelings, thoughts, memories, and desires that are negatively impacting your life to bring about positive change and growth.
11.What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)?
CBT focuses on challenging and changing cognitive distortions and their associated behaviours to improve emotion regulation and strengthen personal coping strategies to problem-solve life challenges more effectively. Clients become more aware of how their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours impact each other and learn tools to break out of unhelpful patterns.
12.What is EMDR?
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy is a treatment method developed by Dr Shapiro to treat traumatic memories. It involves bilateral stimulation, typically by moving your eyes back and forth, much like we do during REM sleep, to promote reprocessing and integration of problematic memories. EMDR’s goal is to help you ‘file away’ traumatic memories so that they no longer have an active influence on your emotions and your day-to-day life.
13.What is Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)?
CFT was developed by Professor Paul Gilbert to work with issues of shame and self-criticism. It integrates techniques from Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy with concepts from evolutionary psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, Buddhist psychology and neuroscience. It supports individuals in developing experiences of inner warmth, safeness, and self-soothing via compassionate mind training (CMT).
14.What is Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)?
IFS is based on an understanding of our minds being made up of different parts, which drive our behaviour. It helps individuals to heal by accessing and healing their protective and wounded inner parts. IFS creates inner and outer connectedness by helping people first access their authentic self and then heal their parts while anchored in self. Resting in authenticity allows more rewarding experiences of connection with others.
15.What is Polyvagal Theory?
Polyvagal theory offers a way of understanding how our autonomic nervous system works and how the different states of the autonomic nervous system affect our ability to feel safe and effective in the world.
16.What is Interpersonal Neurobiology?
This approach was developed by Dr. Dan Siegel. It describes how the brain, body, and mind develop and how they function and change in the context of our social relationships throughout life. Integration is seen as the essential mechanism of health because it promotes a flexible and adaptive way of being that is filled with vitality and creativity.
17.What is Compassionate Inquiry?
This is a psychotherapeutic method developed by Dr. Gabor Maté that reveals what lies beneath the appearance we present to the world. This allows us to access and express our deeper needs and our authenticity. Individuals are led to recognise the unconscious dynamics that run their lives and how to liberate themselves from them.
18.What is Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC)?
MSC was developed by Dr. Chris Germer and Dr. Kristin Neff. It combines the skills of mindfulness and self-compassion, providing a powerful tool for emotional resilience that is more reliable than self-esteem. Self-compassion means giving yourself the same compassion you would naturally show a friend when you’re struggling or feeling badly about yourself. It helps you acknowledge what is difficult in your life and to ask: How can I comfort- and care for myself in this moment?
19.What is Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)?
MBSR is an 8-week group program that focuses on the acquisition of mindful awareness. It was developed by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979, who founded the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts and, nearly twenty years later, the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine. Kabat-Zinn describes mindfulness as a universal human capacity that can foster clear thinking and open-heartedness.
20.What is Conscious Parenting?
Dr. Shefali Tsabary encourages us to be mindful of who we are as parents to better grasp how our own physical and emotional well-being affects the quality of our relationships with our children. As a parenting approach it emphasises improving emotional self-regulation, self-compassion, and a non-judgmental open parental presence rather than exerting power and control.
21.What is Systemic Therapy?
Systemic Therapy is a treatment approach that sees problems as occurring between people rather than within one person. It examines the patterns and dynamics that exist between a person and the different systems he or she may be in (families, communities and workplaces). It is solution-oriented and looks for systemic changes that can promote positive change.