• Founding Teacher of the Hong Kong Center for Mindfulness
• Associate Teacher and Trainer of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, U.K.
• Certified MBSR Teacher and MBSR Supervisor of the Center for Mindfulness, University of Massachusetts.
• Certified MBSR Teacher and MBSR Supervisor of the Center for Mindfulness, University of Massachusetts.
• MBSR Supervisor of the Mindfulness Center at Brown University

Since 1987, Dr. Ma has served as a clinical psychologist in private practice as well as hospitals in Hong Kong and Australia.

Since 1997, she has been offering mindfulness training to the public as well as healthcare professionals.

In 2002, she obtained her doctoral degree at the University of Cambridge.

Her doctoral research was on MBCT and she was supervised by Dr. John Teasdale, one of the founders of MBCT.

She was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Centre for Buddhist Studies, University of Hong Kong from 2002 to 2014.

In recent years, Dr. Ma has been devoting her time to training MBCT and MBSR teachers.