Dr. Chris Goto-Jones is a certified Philosophical Counsellor and a diplomate in Existential Analysis & Logotherapy (cand). He has a special interest in Asian philosophical traditions such as Buddhism and Daoism, and is an experienced meditation teacher. He holds advanced certifications to facilitate Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy; he is also a registered Counselling Hypnotherapist. Educated at Cambridge (BA, MA), Keio (Tokyo), and Oxford Universities (MPhil, DPhil), he has published extensively in modern, comparative, and Asian Philosophy. He was chair professor in Comparative Philosophy at Leiden University in The Netherlands for a decade; now he lives in Victoria, BC, Canada, where he is Professor in Philosophy at the University of Victoria. He has been an active counsellor since 2013.