Thomas Pedulla, LICSW, is a clinical social worker and psychotherapist in private practice in Arlington, Massachusetts, where he works with individual clients and also leads mindfulness-based cognitive therapy groups. A member of the faculty and board of directors at the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, Tom has also served on the board at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center. Before a deepening interest in mindfulness meditation led him to change careers, he worked for over two decades as an advertising copywriter and creative director. Tom has been a practitioner of meditation in the vipassana tradition since 1987. He is a contributing author of the second edition of Mindfulness and Psychotherapy.