EQness is led by Dr. Olga-Lucia Gamboa Arana, who aims to support the mental and emotional wellbeing of individuals and organizations through practical tools based on state-of-the-art research findings.
About Dr. Olga-Lucia Gamboa Arana
Dr. Olga-Lucia Gamboa Arana, based in Sydney, Australia, is a Cognitive Neuroscientist, Psychotherapist, Coach, and Mindfulness Teacher.
Her academic background in physics ignited a profound interest in the complex dynamics of human emotions and behaviors, leading her to earn a Ph.D. in Neuroscience. She expanded her knowledge in Psychology, specializing in emotional education and stress management and later getting a master’s degree in Psychopathology, Clinical Intervention, and Health.
Olga Lucia is proficient in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a qualified instructor of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion (MSC), and a certified teacher of the Mindful Based-Eating Awareness (MB-EAT) program. Outside of her professional endeavors, she enjoys teaching dance.
With over 15 years of research experience utilizing non-invasive brain stimulation and neuroimaging technologies such as EEG and fMRI, her work spans anxiety, attention, memory, and reward processes, among others. Her personal research focuses on intentional forgetting —a crucial brain function essential for daily functioning and mental wellbeing. She is also engaged in exploring the benefits of mindfulness for mental health.
Why Working With Companies?
Recognizing that work consumes a significant portion of our lives, Olga Lucia, through EQness, is dedicated to transforming workplaces into environments that promote growth and wellbeing.
By integrating scientific rigor with practical applications, the EQness methodology places the individual at the center, emphasizing personal development and psychological wellbeing as key drivers for both individual thriving and organizational success.
Scientific Publications
This is a list of selected publications by Dr. Gamboa Arana relevant to the topics of cognition wellbeing, and, brain health.
Brain Health & Mindfulness
- Mindfulness intervention effect on endometriosis-related pain dimensions and its mediator role on stress and vitality: A path analysis approach. (2024). Franca M, OL Gamboa, M.A. Pinho Oliveira.
- Mindfulness-Based Intervention effect on the psychophysiological marker of self-regulation in women with endometriosis. (2024). M. Franca M, OL Gamboa, M.A. Pinho Oliveira.
- Cognitive-affective changes mediates the Mindfulness-Based Intervention effect on endometriosis-related pain and mental health: A path analysis approach. (2023). Franca M, OL Gamboa, M.A. Pinho Oliveira.
- Obliviate! Reviewing neural fundamentals of intentional forgetting from a meta-analytic perspective. (2022). OL Gamboa, CP Hu, CE Salas, Yuen.
- A Single-blind, randomized, pilot study of a brief Mindfulness-Based Intervention for the endometriosis-related pain management. (2022). Franca M, OL Gamboa, M.A. Pinho Oliveira.
- Association between severity of pain, perceived stress and vagally-mediated heart rate variability in women with endometriosis. (2021). M. Franca M, OL Gamboa, M.A. Pinho Oliveira. Women Health.
- Intensity- and timing-dependent modulation of motion perception with transcranial magnetic stimulation of visual cortex. (2020). OL Gamboa, H. Palmer, M. Dannhauer, C. Hile, R. Ramadan, T. Worth, R. Cabeza, S.W. Davis, A. Peterchev, M. Sommer, L.G. Applebaum.
- Assessing the impact of mindfulness attitudes on attentional quality through focused breath induction. (2019). M. Franca, França M, G.K. Tanaka, . B. Velasques, M. Cagy M, P. Ribeiro P, OL Gamboa.
- The challenge of forgetting: Neurobiological mechanisms of auditory directed forgetting. (2018). OL Gamboa*, K. Yuen*, M. Behrens, H. Steinmetz, F.von Wegner.
- Suppress to forget: the effect of a mindfulness–based strategy during an emotional item–directed forgetting paradigm. (2017). OL Gamboa, J. García-Campayo, T. Müller, F.von Wegner.
Brain Plasticity & NIBS
- Bilateral TMS in MCI and healthy controls impacts cognition through induced connectivity. (2023) McAllister, R. Morales, OL Gamboa, M. Dannhauer, M. Woldorff, S. Davis.
- A questionnaire to collect unintended effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A consensus-based approach. (2022). Giustiniani A, Vallesi A, Oliveri M, Tarantino V, Ambrosini E, Bortoletto M, Masina F, Busan P, Siebner H.R, Fadiga L, Koch G, Leocani L, Lefaucher JP, Rotenberg A, Zangen A, Violante I.R, Moliadze V, Gamboa O.L, Ugawa Y., Pascual-Leone A, Ziemann U, Miniussi C, Burgio F.
- Editorial: Non invasive stimulation techniques: “Modulating cognition”. (2019). OL Gamboa.
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