Wendy Chabot, MD

Wendy graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a B.S. in Zoology and earned her M.D. from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1984. Subsequently, she completed a three-year pediatric residency at Baystate Medical Center, a Tufts affiliated teaching hospital in Springfield, MA. Since 1987 she has provided pediatric primary care, largely in western Massachusetts.

As a primary care pediatrician Wendy became increasingly aware of the frequent and harmful effects of stress on health. Motivated by a commitment to preventive medicine, she began to study stress, stress physiology, and the mind-body connection. In 2007 she completed the Practicum in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction at The Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In the same year, she completed a 200-hour yoga teacher's training at The Yoga Center in Amherst, MA. She pursued further yoga training with Amy Weintraub, a Kripalu yoga teacher and author of Yoga for Depression and the upcoming book Yoga Skills for Therapists: Effective Practices for Mood Management. Wendy continues to pursue additional areas of interest including positive psychology and mindfulness-based therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). She benefits greatly from her own daily practice of yoga, meditation and visualization.

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