Fabrizio Didonna is an internationally renowned clinical psychologist, adjunct professor of Clinical Psychology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Padua, professor at the Institute of Lifelong Learning of the University of Barcelona, Spain and visiting professor in Shanghai Jiao. Tong University. He is also the founding director of the MBCT International Center for OCD, in Vicenza, Italy.

He is the developer of the therapeutic model and author of the related manual, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Guilford Press, 2020, translated into Chinese, Spanish, Italian, French and Russian), the first manualized and validated. Mindfulness-based treatment model for OCD. He is also the founder and honorary president of the Italian Institute of Mindfulness (IS.I.MIND). He presents scientific articles, conferences and workshops at various International Congresses and Meetings, as well as at Universities around the world, including Harvard and Oxford.

He is the editor of the Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness (2009, Springer), the first manual on the clinical applications of mindfulness meditation (translated into five languages). For 25 years he was Director of a Mood and Anxiety Disorders Unit and a OCD Unit at the Villa Margherita Private Hospital in Vicenza, Italy, where he implemented his therapeutic model for hundreds of serious and hospitalized patients. He is the founder of MBCT at Work, a program based on mindfulness for application in the workplace, and has been the scientific director of the one-year master’s program in mindfulness-based therapy sponsored by the Institute in Milan. He is an experienced instructor in interventions based on mindfulness and has trained more than 2,000 patients in hospital and outpatient settings. He teaches workshops and training retreats in the field of mindfulness and MBCT for OCD at an international level, including the United States, United Kingdom, China, Mexico, Spain, Panama, Israel, Finland and Poland.