“Treat The root Cause Not The Symptoms”
Therapy & Mind-body medicine with an Experienced Psychologist
Licensed Psychologist MT & NY Mindfulness Expert Researcher & Teacher
Psychotherapy, Coaching & Research
Dr. John Chambers Christopher is a licensed psychologist, consultant, Fulbright Scholar, and internationally recognized expert in mindfulness, well-being, and the art of self-care. He is licensed to practice psychotherapy and counseling in New York, Montana, Vermont, and Massachusetts, and Consultation and executive coaching is offered worldwide.
In addition to his psychological counseling services, Dr. Christopher helps CEOs, top-tier executives, high-profile individuals, and leaders restore resilience and well-being, prioritize mental and physical health, and improve professional productivity. He maintains a special interest in supporting thoughtful leaders to lead mindfully. John teaches mindful leadership, resilience, and stress management, helping organizations, businesses, companies, healthcare agencies, universities, and schools transform their workplace culture and create healthier work/life balance in the US and internationally. John received his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Texas and an MA from Harvard. With decades of experience at the intersection of psychology, philosophy, and embodied healing, his work is rooted in the belief that deep transformation emerges through presence, skilled attunement, and an integrative understanding of the human condition.
Dr. Christopher specializes in mindfulness-based and somatic therapies that support healing from emotional distress, chronic stress, trauma, and complex mind-body concerns. He works with professionals facing burnout, individuals living with chronic pain, and those seeking greater self-awareness and resilience. Drawing from his background in developmental psychology, neurobiology, and attachment science, he weaves together research-driven interventions with contemplative practices such as Focusing, Hakomi, Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC), and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). His relational and insight-oriented approach helps clients regulate emotions, reduce reactivity, deepen connections, and align more fully with their values and vitality.
In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Christopher is a sought-after consultant and coach for leaders, educators, healthcare providers, and mission-driven organizations. His leadership coaching and workshops emphasize mindfulness, emotional intelligence, resilience, and sustainable performance. He offers tailored consultation for corporations, universities, healthcare systems, and school communities, guiding individuals and teams toward more grounded, ethical, and creative leadership.
As a psychologist licensed in four states—New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Montana—Dr. Christopher provides all therapy and consultation services through secure video platforms, making expert care accessible across state lines. His work is especially suited for individuals seeking a depth-oriented, integrative approach to mental health, grounded in both contemplative wisdom and scientific rigor.
Dr. Christopher is a Nationally Registered Health Service Psychologist and holds a Certificate of Professional Qualification in Psychology (CPQ) from the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards. He is known for bringing both intellectual clarity and a steady, compassionate presence to his work—offering clients not just tools for change, but a renewed capacity to meet life with awareness, resilience, and care.
About Dr. John Christopher
Before going into a full-time psychotherapy practice in Montana, John was a Professor for 23 years at Montana State University, Dartmouth, the University of Washington, and the University of Guam.
John is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a Past-President of the Society of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Division 24 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. This Project developed a pedagogy and curriculum to promote the Dalai Lama’s vision of teaching ethics in schools.
John Christopher PhD, is a licensed psychologist in the states of New York, Montana, Vermont and Massachusetts.
Work With Dr. John Christopher
Coaching
Mindfulness-focused coaching for wellness, stress management, and resilience. I tailor programs to meet your unique needs and lifestyle. My goal is to be flexible and responsive as we work together to support your health goals.
Research
Research and scholarship on well-being, moral and ethical development, self-care, resilience, and cultural sensitivity. My research is interdisciplinary in nature, pursuing themes of culture & self, identity, meaning, moral development, and psychological well-being.
Psychotherapy
As a Psychotherapist working with Individuals and Couples, I work with people struggling with a variety of concerns and problems to help them cope more effectively in today's challenging world.
Consultation
Wellness and mindfulness-based workshops or consultation for organizations, businesses, health care agencies, universities, and schools. I consult internationally to help organizations promote wellness.
Clinical Expertise
Individual Psychotherapy
Anxiety Concerns
Stress Management
Depression and Mood Disorders
Emotion Regulation
Chronic Pain, Insomnia, and Medical Challenges
Spirituality and Self-Growth
Self-Esteem Concerns
Transitions, Life Challenges and Coping Skills
Mindfulness Training, MBSR, Self-Care and Well-Being
Psychosomatic Medicine
Trauma, PTSD
Sexuality and Identity concerns
Codependency Concerns
Attachment Difficulties and Family of Origin Issues
Grief, Bereavement and Loss
Mindfulness Expertise for Business and Organizations
Health Care Professionals, Burnout Prevention
Men's Issues
Professional Supervision, College Students and Career
mindfulness & Meditation routines
Mind-body medicine Philosophy
In today’s fast-moving world, true healing requires more than symptom relief—it asks for a deeper integration of mind, body, and spirit. As a licensed psychologist offering psychotherapy, executive coaching, and mindfulness-based consultation in New York, Massachusetts, Montana, and Vermont, I help individuals and professionals move beyond surface-level change to experience authentic well-being from the inside out.
My philosophy is grounded in the principles of mind-body medicine, which recognizes the interconnected nature of psychological and physiological health. Emotional stress, trauma, and burnout often show up not only in our thoughts, but in our bodies—through tension, fatigue, illness, or a general sense of disconnection. Through an integrative, trauma-informed, and relational approach, I support clients in reconnecting with their inner resilience and restoring nervous system balance.
Whether you're a high-level executive facing burnout in Manhattan, a health-conscious professional in Boston, a rural Montanan navigating chronic stress, or a Vermonter seeking purpose and clarity, I offer personalized care that blends:
Psychodynamic and humanistic psychotherapy
Somatic and mindfulness-based interventions (including MBSR, Hakomi, and Focusing)
Ethical leadership coaching and burnout prevention
Support for life transitions, chronic illness, anxiety, depression, and loss
Reflective space for meaning-making, spiritual exploration, and self-renewal
With decades of clinical experience, academic scholarship, and contemplative training, I help clients cultivate internal coherence, emotional clarity, and a grounded sense of purpose. I believe therapy and coaching should honor the complexity of the whole person—not just alleviate distress, but open the door to transformation. From New York City to Bozeman, Burlington to Boston, I invite you into a process of discovery that integrates science, presence, and the timeless wisdom of embodied healing.
Professional Services
Mindfulness-Based Consultation, Workshops & Program Development
Dr. John Christopher, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and international consultant specializing in mindfulness-based leadership development, organizational wellness, and stress reduction training. He collaborates with organizations, businesses, healthcare systems, universities, and schools across the U.S. and globally to create programs that foster mindful leadership, reduce burnout, and support healthy workplace cultures.
With expertise in neuroscience, mind-body medicine, and somatic psychology, Dr. Christopher designs and delivers customized consultation programs that integrate mindfulness training, resilience-building, disease prevention, and wellness education. His offerings include executive retreats, continuing education workshops, and keynote presentations for companies seeking to enhance performance, morale, and employee well-being.
Supervision for Clinical and Professional Development
As a mentor and seasoned educator, Dr. John Christopher offers clinical supervision for psychologists, counselors, and graduate students working toward licensure in Montana. His supervision helps early-career clinicians integrate mind-body psychology, somatic therapy techniques, and mindfulness-informed practices into their work with clients.
Dr. Christopher pioneered one of the first graduate-level courses on counselor self-care and mindfulness: Mind-Body Medicine and the Art of Self-Care. Drawing on over three decades of experience as a university professor, clinical supervisor, and licensed psychologist, he supports the next generation of mental health professionals in cultivating self-awareness, emotional resilience, and ethical clinical presence. He has taught at Dartmouth, the University of Washington, Montana State University, and the University of Guam.
Mindfulness-Focused Coaching
Mindfulness is the ability to notice your present moment experience—without judgment and with compassion. Dr. Christopher began his journey into mindfulness in 1981 and has since trained in yoga, qigong, Buddhist meditation, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) around the world. Since 1998, he has taught MBSR and helped hundreds of individuals—including clinicians and executives—incorporate mindfulness into daily life and professional settings.
His mindfulness coaching and resilience training empower individuals to reduce stress, enhance creativity, and recover balance in the face of adversity. Through one-on-one coaching or group consultation, Dr. Christopher helps individuals and organizations build sustainable practices that prevent burnout and promote long-term well-being.
He collaborates with healthcare providers, executives, educators, and corporate teams to embed mindfulness in daily operations, leadership models, and organizational culture.
Therapy, Counseling & Psychological Consultation
Dr. John Chambers Christopher, PhD, offers integrative psychotherapy and virtual therapy across New York, Montana, Massachusetts and Vermont via HIPAA-compliant telehealth. His clinical work is tailored for adults seeking support for:
Anxiety, depression, and chronic stress
Mind-body conditions and psychosomatic symptoms
Grief, trauma, and major life transitions
Emotional regulation and relationship challenges
Multicultural identity, spirituality, and existential distress
Blending psychodynamic and interpersonal theory with somatic-based interventions like Focusing, Hakomi, MBSR, and Mindful Self-Compassion, Dr. Christopher helps clients restore nervous system balance and reconnect with inner vitality. His unique background in mind-body psychology, cultural studies, and clinical neuroscience allows for deep, whole-person healing that bridges evidence-based psychotherapy with contemplative wisdom.
Consultation, Keynotes, Leadership Development & Executive Coaching worldwide
Dr. Christopher provides keynotes, seminars, and executive coaching for high-level leaders, healthcare professionals, and mission-driven organizations seeking mindfulness-based leadership development and ethical workplace transformation.
Through customized programs, he helps clients:
Cultivate resilient, emotionally intelligent leadership
Manage stress and prevent burnout
Enhance decision-making and strategic vision
Foster integrity-driven, inclusive leadership cultures
Build supportive and mindful teams grounded in empathy and well-being
Whether working with a global corporation or a healthcare agency, his consulting services are informed by cutting-edge neuroscience, contemplative practice, and over 30 years of experience supporting organizational change.
About psychological Counseling
As a licensed psychologist and counselor licensed to practice therapy in New York, Vermont, Massachusetts and Montana, I work with people experiencing a range of emotional, situational, and health concerns to help them cope more effectively in today’s challenging world. During therapy and counseling sessions, I provide a supportive environment to help individuals explore their inner lives and sort through obstacles and barriers that interfere with personal and professional satisfaction and general well-being. I pay particular attention to helping people reduce their stress and cultivate a sense of internal ease by providing helpful skills to integrate emotional experience and gain greater comfort dwelling in their bodies. Clients experience greater life satisfaction and healthier relationships.
Integrating my extensive mind-body training and research with the best of traditional psychotherapy and counseling techniques, I help clients reduce their stress response and improve immune functioning for optimal emotional and physical health. I do this by helping individuals better understand how their autonomic nervous system works and discover tools to work with the inner states that, in the present, limit their ability to function optimally in areas of their lives. I welcome working with patients who have medical concerns, diagnoses, chronic pain, and other related symptoms. I also have expertise in multicultural counseling and enjoy a diverse practice.
In my Montana private psychotherapy practice, I draw on psychodynamic and interpersonal principles combined with research on social and cognitive development, including the neurobiology of attachment. I also have extensive training in a number of body-centered or somatic practices including focusing, Hakomi, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and Mindful Self-Compassion.
About Executive Coaching
Executive Coaching for Mindfulness, Resilience & Burnout Prevention
Mindfulness is the capacity to become fully aware of your present-moment experience—with clarity, acceptance, and non-reactivity. For leaders and professionals navigating high-stakes environments, mindfulness isn’t just a wellness practice—it’s a strategic asset. Dr. John Chambers Christopher offers tailored executive coaching that integrates mindfulness, emotional regulation, and stress-reduction practices to help high-performing individuals thrive under pressure, prevent burnout, and sustain long-term wellbeing.
As an executive coach and licensed psychologist, Dr. Christopher works with CEOs, healthcare providers, physicians, business leaders, educators, and professionals across industries who face chronic demands, decision-making fatigue, and increasing personal and professional responsibilities. His coaching programs are customized to align with your leadership goals, lifestyle, and the specific challenges you face—whether that’s navigating organizational change, supporting a team through transition, managing personal health, or recovering from chronic overextension.
These programs support high-level individuals in integrating mindfulness not just as a concept, but as a daily practice and leadership stance. The goal is not simply stress relief, but the cultivation of clarity, presence, resilience, and deeper emotional intelligence. Through one-on-one virtual coaching sessions, clients learn how to:
Strengthen attention and mental clarity
Improve emotional self-regulation
Reduce reactivity in high-stress moments
Enhance creativity, innovation, and perspective
Sustain energy and cognitive performance over time
Restore a deeper connection to self and purpose
Prevent and recover from executive burnout
Executive and professional burnout is a serious, often hidden, consequence of sustained high output without adequate internal repair. It’s marked by emotional exhaustion, physical depletion, detachment, irritability, reduced effectiveness, and a growing sense of disconnection from one’s work or values. Symptoms can include chronic fatigue, sleep disturbance, cognitive fog, depression, anxiety, and even somatic expressions such as chronic pain, headaches, or autoimmune flare-ups.
Dr. Christopher’s approach goes beyond generic stress management—offering a personalized, research-informed coaching experience that addresses the underlying causes of burnout while rebuilding the inner foundation required to thrive. His background in mindfulness, contemplative neuroscience, somatic psychology, and leadership development allows him to support professionals with both clinical insight and practical, integrative tools.
Coaching may also be helpful for individuals managing major life stressors—such as personal transitions, relational strain, grief and loss, chronic illness, or emotional dysregulation. For physicians, therapists, educators, and caretakers, the work often focuses on cultivating sustainable care for the self, so one can continue offering care to others from a place of steadiness and wholeness.
All coaching sessions are conducted virtually via secure video platforms, making them accessible to professionals across New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Montana, as well as nationally and internationally. Whether you're leading a company, stewarding a medical team, or managing a demanding career, Dr. Christopher offers a space to pause, reflect, recalibrate, and lead with greater clarity and integrity.
Inspiration & Philosophy
For over forty years, John Christopher has been bridging traditions: science and spirituality and Western and non-Western healing traditions. To gain perspective on American society, he has traveled extensively to study indigenous practices of healing in non-Western cultures. In 2012-2013, he was a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar in India, where he focused on Indian indigenous psychology. His research has also included participant observation in various forms of mindfulness training as well as fieldwork with traditional healers. John has spent over thirty years learning from Balinese shamans and integrating these experiences into behavioral medicine. These cross-cultural experiences have provided John with a vantage point to observe the cultural assumptions and values that underlie Western understandings of health and healing. He brings these perspectives into his teaching as well, emphasizing how Western views of the self can obscure how we are embedded in socio-political-economic practices that have consequences for health. Focusing on consumerism, health disparities, and social determinants of health, he helps others understand how working downstream with patients will never solve the deeper structural problems that contribute to mental illness and health disparities. He sees this broader program of work as critical for promoting health across our society and avoiding the pitfalls of looking at health in solely individualistic terms, such as focusing on individual health risk factors.
Scholarly Contributions
As a Scholar, John Christopher’s work spans the fields of health psychology, cultural psychology, theoretical and philosophical psychology, and developmental psychology. The author of over 60 articles and chapters, he has written on the cultural, moral, and ontological underpinnings of theories of psychological well-being, moral development, and psychotherapy. John is the recipient of the 2003 Sigmund Koch Early Career Award by the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He also received Montana State University’s top research award, The Wiley Award. Most meaningful to John is the Bozeman Peacemaker Award for which his students nominated him. His scholarly work appears in leading journals in psychology and counseling and he has guest-edited special issues of the journals Theory & Psychology and The Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. His recent article “Critical Cultural Awareness” was the lead article in a recent issue of The American Psychologist, the flagship journal of the APA. John was also on the editorial boards of The Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, The Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Counseling & Spirituality, and The International Journal of Spirituality.
About Cultural Psychology
Cultural psychology provides conceptual resources for helping us realize that our most fundamental ways of thinking always presuppose particular cultural values and assumptions. Discerning these presuppositions underlying our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors is a discipline—it requires an ongoing commitment to expose ourselves to those who differ from us in important ways. When we engage in cross-cultural and historical study we discover that in different places and in different times people have held vastly different understandings of such important notions as health, the self, the mind, and the good life. Awareness of this range of variation can help us to not only better understand what is potentially at stake in cross-cultural interactions, but it can also allow us to better understand ourselves.
To gain perspective on American society, I have spent a considerable amount of time traveling internationally and studying indigenous practices of health in non-Western cultures. My scholarly research has also included participant observation in various forms of mindfulness training as well as fieldwork with traditional healers and shamans.
These experiences have provided me with a vantage point to observe what is presupposed in Western understandings of health and have expanded my training in methods that are increasingly being used in behavioral medicine. I continued this line of work while on a Fulbright-Nehru Award in India studying Indian indigenous psychology. I bring these perspectives into my teaching as well, emphasizing how Western views of the self can obscure how we are embedded in socio-political-economic practices that have consequences for health. By including units on such topics as consumerism, health disparities, social determinants of health, and community-based participatory research, I try to help students understand how working downstream with patients will never solve the deeper structural problems that contribute to mental illness and health disparities in the first place. I see this broader program of work as critical for promoting health across our society and avoiding the pitfalls of looking at health in solely individualistic terms, such as focusing on individual health risk factors.
About Interdisciplinary Research
My research is interdisciplinary. I pursue themes that I first addressed through an undergraduate major I designed at the University of Michigan entitled The Psychological and Philosophical Foundations of Culture. As a social scientist, my passion is in exploring how culture shapes the self, identity, meaning, moral development, and psychological well-being. Much of my scholarly work attempts to examine Western psychology from a cross-cultural and historical perspective. I have been particularly interested in how Western assumptions about the nature of the person, or self, and the good life, underlie Western psychological theories, research, and practice. In particular, I have examined how individualism influences a variety of psychological fields.
Most of my current research considers the limitations of current understandings of positive psychology and psychological well-being and explores the nature of psychological well-being in non-individualistic cultures. Other areas that I have addressed include moral development, character education, and psychotherapy. I have spent a considerable amount of time studying indigenous psychological traditions in non-Western cultures. This has included participant observation in various forms of mindfulness training as well as fieldwork learning from traditional healers and shamans. This research has provided me with a vantage point from which to get more clarity about what is presupposed in Western understanding of well-being but has also expanded my training in methods that are increasingly being used in behavioral medicine. I see this program of work as critical for the practice of counseling and psychotherapy in general and for working with clients of differing ethnic backgrounds and international clients in particular. Moreover, it has implications for related fields such as public health, health promotion/education, character education, and personality and developmental psychology.
More recently my focus has been developing alternative notions of the self and of well-being that aim to transcend many of the conceptual limitations of much of current theory and research. While this work has been over twenty-five years in the making, it has only been in the past five that I have been able to integrate the two main strains in my intellectual formation – philosophical hermeneutics and interactivism – into what I see as a compelling framework.
One area where I’ve applied my theoretical work is in mind/body medicine and stress management which I’ve been teaching for over 25 years. I bring over 30 years of experience practicing meditation and yoga and 15 years of practicing qigong to the practice of integrative medicine. I have been pioneering the application of mindfulness to counselor training. My graduate counseling class “Mind-Body Medicine and the Art of Self-Care” was recently featured in an article in Counseling Today, the monthly magazine of the American Counseling Association. My 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.
I have attempted to publish my work in a variety of journals. Some, like the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology and Theory & Psychology, I chose because they allow me to pursue the furthest reaches of my conceptual work. I have chosen to engage with outlets such as The American Psychologist, The Journal of Counseling and Development, and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, and Training because I am deeply committed to making theoretical psychology practically meaningful to practitioners and bridging the gap that can sometimes exist between theoretical scholarship and the actual practice of psychotherapy and counseling.
About Interactivism
Interactivism maintains that much of mainstream psychology is dominated by substance and structure ontologies in contrast to process ontologies (Bickhard, 2002, 2003a; Bickhard & Christopher, 1994). In the natural sciences, substance and structure ontologies such as phlogiston theories of fire, caloric theories of heat, and fluid theories of magnetism have all been superseded by process models in which substance models have been replaced by process and patterns and organizations of process. Psychology has yet to develop a generally accepted process ontology. One implication of this is that much of psychology is left trying to establish relationships between “things” that have been reified such as mind and body, culture and self, inner representations and external realities, facts and values, and so forth (see also Adams & Markus, 2001; Hermans, 2001; Sawyer, 2002). Once split by these reifications into substantial domains, entities, or realms of entities, however, it has proven to be impossible to reintegrate them. Interactivism’s process ontology is an attempt to reconceptualize psychological phenomena in such a way that these “things” and the dualities among them are overcome. In particular, they are reconceptualized as poles or aspects of process, and of organizations of interacting process, rather than as entities in any foundational sense. In other words, structures are emergent stabilizations of process.
Building on the philosophy of pragmatism and formed in dialogue with Piagetian principles, the interactivist view (Bickhard, 1980, 1992a, 1992b, 2000; Bickhard & Christopher, 1994; Campbell & Bickhard, 1986; Campbell, Christopher, & Bickhard, 2002; Christopher & Bickhard, 2007) considers development at its heart to be characterized by the ability to abstract from or transcend the patterns of interaction and thought that we are currently engaged in so that we can move to a “higher” level where we can reflect upon what we had previously taken for granted. Piaget (2000) referred to this ability as “reflective abstraction.” It can be defined as “the relationship between adjacent levels of knowing…in which properties resident in a given level, implicit in the organization or functioning of that level, are explicitly known at the next higher level” (Campbell & Bickhard, 1986, p. 85).
About Mindfulness
Mindfulness is the ability to become aware of present moment experience with acceptance. It is typically cultivated through meditative, contemplative, and yogic practices. I began practicing meditation and yoga in 1981 while an undergraduate student in Ann Arbor and found they literally saved my life. In 1984 I became a yoga and meditation teacher and in 1996 I added qigong to my practice. In 1998 I began teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and training counselors and psychotherapists how to use mindfulness practices in the service of self-care. My training in these practices has involved studying with teachers in India, Thailand, Bali, Mexico, and the United States. I incorporate mindfulness practices and principles into my work with individuals and couples. I provide consultation to corporations and businesses, health care agencies, higher education, and schools on bringing mindfulness into these settings to enhance performance and creativity, promote resilience and self-care, and prevent burnout and stress-related illness. I also provide mindfulness-based coaching to individuals.
John Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, a well-researched program at the University of Massachusetts for teaching mindfulness through meditation, yoga, and a body scan awareness technique to a variety of medical patients, provided a way for me to bridge my personal experiences with meditative and contemplative practices with more traditional forms of psychotherapy and health care. This led me to develop an MBSR program for the local hospital and then to integrate mindfulness into a graduate counseling class entitled “Mind-Body Medicine and the Art of Self-Care.” This integration has been deeply fulfilling personally and the impact of MBSR on patients and students has been far greater than I’d imagined. Most striking is the way mindfulness practices assist people to accept or tolerate those aspects of their life (like chronic pain) that can’t be altered (Christopher, Chrisman, Trotter, Schure, Dahlen & Christopher, 2011; Schure, Christopher, & Christopher, 2004).
Scholarly Research & publications
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Christopher, J. C. (2018). Let It Be: Mindfulness and Releasement—Neglected Dimensions of Well-Being. Journal of Theoretical & Philosophical Psychology, 38 (2), 61-76.
Marecek, J., & Christopher, J. C. (2017). Is Positive Psychology an Indigenous Psychology? In N. J. L. Brown, T. Lomas, & F. J. Eiroá-Orosa (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of critical positive psychology (pp. 84-98). London, UK: Routledge.
Christopher, J. C. (2016). Hermeneutics and developmental psychology. In H. L. Miller (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of theory in psychology (pp. 412-414). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Christopher, J. C., Marecek, J., Wendt, D. C. (2015). Culture revisited: A reply to comments, American Psychologist, 70(7), 662-663. doi: 10.1037/a0039203
Christopher, J. C., Gable, S., & Goodman, D. M. (2015). Theoretical bases of psychotherapeutic practice. In J. Martin, J. Sugarman & K. Slaney (Eds.), The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (pp. 424-440). New York: Wiley.
Felton, T., Nored, L, Christopher, J. C. (2015). Examining the impact of mindfulness training on counseling students’ perceptions of stress throughout a mindfulness training course. Mindfulness, 6 (2), 159-169. DOI: doi: 10.1007/s12671-013-0240-8
Christopher, J. C., Wendt, D. C., Marecek, J. & Goodman, D. M. (2014). Critical cultural awareness: Contributions to a globalizing psychology. American Psychologist, 69 (7), 645-655. doi: 10.1037/a0036851
Christopher, J. C. (2014). Putting “positive” and “psychology” in perspective: The role of Indian psychology. Psychological Studies. DOI 10.1007/s12646-014-0256-8.
Christopher, J. C. & Howe, K. (2014). Future directions for a more multiculturally competent (and humble) positive psychology. In J. Teramoto-Pedrotti & L. M. Edwards (Eds.), Perspectives on the intersection of multiculturalism & positive Psychology (pp. 253-266). New York: Springer.
Türk Smith, S., Smith, K. D., Christopher, J. C. (2014). Respecting the complexity of values systems: Psychological realism and the case of Turkish culture. In S. J. Kulich, L. Weng & M. H. Prosser (Eds.), Value dimensions and their contextual dynamics across cultures (pp. 401-427). Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
Christopher, J. C., Oswal, N., & Deokar, N. (2013). Perspectives on mindfulness from the Buddha's homeland: A focus group inquiry. Counseling & Spirituality, 32 (2), 33-58.
Campbell, J. C., & Christopher, J. C., (2012). Teaching Mindfulness to Create Effective Counselors. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 34 (3), 213-226.
Christopher, J. C., Chrisman, J., Trotter, M., Schure, M., Dahlen, P. & Christopher, S. (2011). The long-term influence of mindfulness training on counselors and psychotherapists: A qualitative inquiry. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 51 (3), 318-349.
Christopher, J. C. (2010). Situating positive psychology. In C. R. Snyder, S. Lopez & J. Teramoto-Pedrotti (Eds.), Positive Psychology: The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths, 2nd Edition (pp. 80-82). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Christopher, J. C. (2010). Peak experiences, mindfulness practices, and the search for meaning. In M. Trotter-Mathison, J. M. Koch, S. Sanger, & T. M. Skovholt (Eds.), Voices from the field: Defining moments in counselor and therapist development (pp. 37-40). New York: Routledge.
Christopher, J. C. & Maris, J. (2010). Integrating Mindfulness As Self-Care Into Counselling and Psychotherapy Training. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 10, 114-125.
Christopher, J. C., Foster, G., & James, S. (2009). A hermeneutic approach to culture and psychotherapy. In H. D. Friedman & P. K. Revera (Eds.), Abnormal psychology: New research (pp. 225-261). New York: Nova Science Publishers.
Chrisman, J. A., Christopher, J. C., & Lichtenstein, S. J. (2009). Qigong as a mindfulness practice for counseling students: A qualitative inquiry. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. 49, 236-257.
Christopher, J. C. (2008). Culture, moral topographies, and interactive personhood. Journal of Theoretical & Philosophical psychology, 27, 168-191.
Christopher, J. C., & Campbell, R. C. (2008). An interactivist-hermeneutic metatheory for positive psychology. Theory & Psychology, 18, 675-697.
Christopher, J. C., & Hickinbottom, S. (2008). Positive psychology, ethnocentrism, and the disguised ideology of individualism. Theory & Psychology, 18, 563-589. Christopher, J. C., Slife, B. D., & Richardson, F. C. (2008). Thinking through positive psychology. Theory & Psychology, 18, 555-561.
Hoshmand, L. T., & Christopher, J. C. (2008). Theorizing on the cultural. Journal of Theoretical & Philosophical psychology, 27, 141-145.
Smith, A. J., Thorngren, J., Christopher, J. C. (2008). Rural mental health counseling. In I. Marini & M. A. Stebnicki (Eds.), The Professional counselor’s desk reference (pp. 263-274). New York: Springer.
Schure, M., Christopher, J. C., Christopher, S. E. (2008). Mind/body medicine and the art of self-care: Teaching mindfulness to counseling students through yoga, meditation and qigong. Journal of Counseling & Development, 86, 47-56.
Christopher, J. C., & Bickhard, M. H. (2007). Culture, self, and identity: Interactivist contributions to a metatheory for cultural psychology. Culture & Psychology, 13, 259-295.
Christopher, J. C. (2007). Situating positive psychology. In C. R. Snyder & S. Lopez (Eds.), Positive psychology: The scientific and practical explorations of human strengths (pp. 90-91). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Christopher, J. C., Foster, G., & James, S. (2007). A hermeneutic approach to culture and psychotherapy. In A. Columbus (Ed.), Advances in Psychology Research, Volume 48 (pp. 1-38). New York: Science Publishers.
Smith, K. D., Türk-Smith, S., & Christopher, J. C. (2007). What Defines the Good Person? Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Experts’ Models with Lay Prototypes. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 38, 333-360.
Christopher, J. C. (2006). Hermeneutics and the moral dimension of cultural psychotherapy. In L. T. Hoshmand (Ed.), Culture, Psychotherapy, and Counseling: Critical and Integrative Perspectives (pp. 179-203). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Christopher, J. C., & Smith, A. (2006). A hermeneutic approach to culture and psychotherapy. In R. Moody, & S. Palmer (Eds.), Race, culture and psychotherapy: Critical perspective in multicultural practice (pp. 265-280). New York: Brunner/Routledge.
Christopher, J. C., Christopher, S. E., Dunnagan, T., & Schure, M. (2006). Teaching self-care through mindfulness practices: The application of yoga, meditation and qi gong to counselor training. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 46, 494-509.
Newsome, S., Christopher, J. C., Dahlen, P., & Christopher, S. (2006). Teaching counselors self-care through mindfulness practices: the application of mindfulness-based stress reduction to counselor training. Teachers College Record. 108, 1881-1900.
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Christopher, J. C., & Fowers, B. J. (1998). Placing culture at the center of multiculturalism: Moral visions and intercultural dialogue. Dialogues in Psychology [Online], 1.0, 56 paragraphs. Available: http://hubcap.clemson.edu/psych/Dialogues/1.0.html [1998, September 14].
Lightsey, O. R., & Christopher, J. C. (1997). Stress buffers and dysphoria in a non-Western population. Journal of Counseling and Development, 75, 451-459
Schmitz, S. E., & Christopher, J. C. (1997). Trouble in Smurftown: The moral visions of youth gangs on Guam. Child Welfare, 76, 411-428 .
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Richardson, F. C., & Christopher, J. C. (1993). Social theory as practice: Metatheoretical options for social inquiry. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 13, 137-153.
Stark, K. D., Humphrey, L. L., Laurent, J., Livingston, R., Christopher, J. C. (1993). Cognitive, behavioral, and family factors in the differentiation of depressive and anxiety disorders during childhood. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 61, 878-886.
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