About Pat Vroom, Ph.D.

licensed psychologist

Pat Vroom Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist in New Jersey (#35S100442300) and New York (#015611-1). Her mindfulness-based practice is dedicated to helping individuals and groups to access their own inner strengths for growth and healing. She particularly enjoys teaching mindfulness groups because they are so effective in empowering participants to reclaim their lives.

She is trained or licensed in

•	Jon Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
•	Ericksonian Hypnosis
•	Mindfulness Meditation
•	Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression (MBCT)
•	Hypnosis for Weight Loss (including Virtual Gastric Band, Hypno-Band)
•	IBS Hypnosis (Dr. O. Paalson, Univ. NC at Chapel Hill)

Pat sees mindfulness and self-hypnosis as powerful tools to manage stress, anxiety, depression, insomnia, and other symptoms of illness, to facilitate positive behavior change, reduce pain, and improve coping. She currently teaches in the New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York City areas.

Pat has extensive experience in hospital-based treatment support for serious illness. At Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City, she established and led the Mind-Body Program within the Integrative Medicine Service for over 7 years, including clinical and research programs to support cancer patients, caregivers, pediatric, and high-risk populations. Subsequently, she was the founding Director of Integral Medicine at Capital Health Medical Center, a large community-based hospital in the Princeton-Hopewell New Jersey area.

In 2009 following a long-time interest, she initiated mindfulness groups within the homeless community, where she leads MBSR at the Rescue Mission of Trenton, integrating the important research of Alan Marlatt, PhD on addiction and mindfulness.

Prior to becoming a psychologist, Pat spent over 20 years in the corporate world as a computer scientist and R&D manager. She earned her doctoral degree in psychology at Columbia University Teachers College. She has had a meditation practice for over 15 years.