Liana Taylor

B.A., M.Clin.Psych., FCCLP

Consultant Clinical Psychologist | Founder, The Mindfulness Centre

Liana Taylor has spent more than three decades synthesising the biological, psychological and relational dimensions of human functioning. A pioneer in the Australian mindfulness landscape, her work helped establish mindfulness within postgraduate psychology training, school education and specialist clinical services, influencing professional frameworks that extended nationally.

Her clinical thinking was shaped early by training in narrative family therapy and systemic couple therapy, establishing a deep understanding of how individual difficulties emerge within relationships, families and wider systems. This systemic foundation has since been integrated with three decades of clinical psychology, neuroscience and integrative medicine for mental health. 

Liana's particular strength lies in seeing the whole landscape — how biological, psychological, relational and professional pressures interact, and where stability has begun to give way.

For over twenty years, Liana directed the Applied Mindfulness Institute, teaching and mentoring thousands of psychologists, psychiatrists and health professionals across Australia and internationally. Her work focused on translating advanced mindfulness, neurobiology and systemic thinking into practical approaches for complex clinical and organisational settings.

Her perspective has also been shaped far beyond the consulting room. Decades of Argentine tango and leading wilderness adventure expeditions across Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the Himalayas brought her into environments where presence is not an idea, but an absolute requirement. The depth of those experiences became part of the wisdom she later brought to her clinical work and teaching — including the recognition that some things are learned most deeply not through explanation, but through experience.

Liana has a longstanding clinical interest and advanced training in integrative medicine for mental health. Her clinical and lived understanding of the intersection between physical health, nervous system dysregulation and psychological endurance informs her work with founders, executives and other high-capacity individuals navigating complex personal or professional instability.

Following four years of deliberately capped clinical hours while navigating significant family illness and her own recovery from spinal injury, Liana has reopened her clinical intake to a limited number of clients through The Clinical Stabilisation & Orientation Protocol.

Our work provides a safe, informed harbour from which to see things clearly, restore stability, and determine what is needed next.