Abstract
This is a portfolio of research work completed during my three years of training on the PsychD in Psychotherapeutic and Counselling Psychology at the University of Surrey. It comprises a literature review and two research reports. The literature review explores some of the conceptual and empirical links between mindfulness and attachment. The first research report is a qualitative enquiry into how therapists and clients experience joint mindfulness practice within therapy sessions, and identifies themes and superordinate themes relating to this experience. The second research report employs a qualitative methodology to understand how therapists bring mindfulness to the therapeutic relationship, and presents a theory of the processes through which this is achieved.