Meet the Founder of MBIR™
The vision, science, and experience behind a trauma-safe approach to transformational change.
Tania A Prince is the creator of Mindfulness Based Inner RePatterning™ (MBIR™) and founder of MBIR™ International, the global standards body overseeing MBIR™ training, certification, and professional practice.
With more than 33 years of therapeutic experience and over 26 years training practitioners internationally, she developed MBIR™ to address one of the most important questions in therapeutic change.
About Tania A Prince
Tania A Prince is an internationally recognised trainer, therapist, conference speaker, best-selling author, and innovator in advanced psychological change work.
Over the course of her career, she has worked with thousands of clients and trained practitioners internationally, developing deep expertise in trauma-informed therapeutic change, nervous-system regulation, and transformational practitioner education.
She is widely respected for her pioneering work in helping practitioners understand why lasting change cannot be achieved through insight alone when the nervous system remains organised around protection and survival.
- An EFT Founding Master, one of only 29 worldwide invited by Gary Craig
- An EFT International Accredited Master Trainer of Trainers
- Creator and Founder of MBIR™️ The Mindfulness-Based Inner RePatterning methodology
- Creator of Deep State RePatterning (DSR)
Her professional background includes extensive training and practice in Emotional Freedom Techniques, NLP, Hypnotherapy, trauma-informed therapeutic approaches, and nervous-system-based change work.
Before entering the therapy profession, Tania completed an Honours Degree in Chemistry, bringing scientific rigour, analytical precision, and evidence-aware thinking into her clinical work and training.
Founder Journey
Tania’s professional journey has been far from conventional.
She first completed an Honours Degree in Chemistry, developing strong scientific rigour, analytical precision, and evidence-aware thinking.
She later spent several years in showbusiness—an experience that gave her unique insight into identity, performance, emotional expression, and the often striking contrast between outward success and inner struggle.
She eventually transitioned into the field of therapy and practitioner training, where these seemingly different worlds began to integrate.
Combined with more than three decades of clinical practice, this unusual blend of science, lived experience, and therapeutic expertise helped shape the integrative thinking that would eventually lead to the creation of Mindfulness Based Inner RePatterning™ (MBIR™).
Why I Created MBIR™
After decades of working with clients and training practitioners, one question became impossible to ignore.
Many clients understood their patterns intellectually.
They could explain their trauma, their beliefs, their attachment patterns, and their behavioural responses.
Yet deep and lasting transformation often remained out of reach.
Over time, a repeated pattern became clear.
This led to a fundamental realisation. Change cannot be forced through insight alone. Transformation requires safety.
MBIR™ was developed to work with the protective intelligence of the nervous system rather than against it.
Scientific and Clinical Influences
MBIR™ integrates research and clinical insight from multiple disciplines, including:
Core Beliefs Behind MBIR™
The Mission of MBIR™ International
MBIR International™ was created to establish global standards for:
- MBIR™ education
- Practitioner competency
- Certification
- Ethical practice
- Trauma-safe application
Our mission is to support practitioners worldwide in delivering transformational work with safety, precision, and integrity.
A Personal Note
I created MBIR™ because I repeatedly witnessed capable practitioners feeling frustrated when insight alone failed to create meaningful change.
I wanted to develop an approach that respected the intelligence of the nervous system.
MBIR™ is not about forcing transformation.
It is about creating the internal conditions that allow transformation to emerge safely.
My hope is that MBIR™ helps practitioners work more deeply, more safely, and more effectively while honouring the protective wisdom within every client.
— Tania A Prince