About John Christopher

John Chambers Christopher, Ph.D is a licensed Psychologist practicing psychotherapy and mindfulness in Bozeman Montana, and online via Telemedicine. Dr. Christopher is a researcher and scholar who has devoted his life to the areas of mindfulness, self-care, well-being, developmental psychology, integrative medicine, attachment, and cultural psychology. John was a professor at Dartmouth University, University of Washington, University of Guam and Montana State University. Most recently, he was in private practice in Bozeman Montana. Learn more about John at johnchristopherphd.com

John is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a past president of the Society of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (a Division of the APA). John is also a Fellow of the Mind & Life Institute. He was a founding member of the Mind & Life Institute’s Ethics, Education, and Human Development Project to develop a pedagogy and curriculum to promote the Dalai Lama’s vision of teaching ethics in schools.  In 2012 and 2013 John was a Fulbright Scholar in India and a Visiting Professor at The University of Delhi. John is a founder of the Bozeman Center for Mindfulness and Mindful Self-Care and currently provides consultation to corporations and businesses, health care agencies, higher education, and schools, bringing the practice of mindfulness into these settings to enhance performance and creativity, promote resilience and self-care, and prevent burnout and stress-related illness.

John is an expert in mind/body medicine and stress management and has been teaching Mindfulness for over 30 years. In addition to over 35 years of experience in his own daily practice of meditation and yoga, he brings over 15 years of experience practicing qigong to his practice of integrative medicine. John has pioneered the application of mindfulness to counselor training. His innovative graduate counseling class “Mind-Body Medicine and the Art of Self-Care” was featured in the American Counseling Association’s Counseling Today magazine.

John’s research articles on using mindfulness practices in the training of counselors appear in the Journal of Counseling & Development, The Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and The Teachers College Record. The 2006 article “Teaching self-care through mindfulness practices: The application of yoga, meditation and qi gong to counselor training” is currently listed on the Journal of Humanistic Psychology’s website as its most frequently read article.

Dr. John Christopher is the author of over 60 scholarly articles and chapters. He has written extensively on the cultural, moral, and ontological underpinnings of theories of psychological well-being, moral development, and psychotherapy. For over thirty years, John has been bridging the traditions of science and spirituality, and Western and non-Western healing traditions.

He is licensed to practice psychology and counseling in Montana and New York.