About

Dr Anthony Quintiliani

Here is a more detailed summary of Dr Anthony Quintiliani’s body of work. Dr Quintliani is available to conduct and participate in select workshops, as a speaker or panel participant and as a general consultant to any size organization. Contact him by CLICKING HERE to fill our general information form.

Licensed Psychologist and Licensed Addictions Counselor –

Anthony R. Quintiliani, Ph.D., LADC, is a licensed (Doctorate) Psychologist, specializing in Clinical Health Psychology, addictions, and Mindfulness-Based therapies and practices. During his long career he has provided approximately 1200 all-day clinical professional workshops. His main training locations have been in Vermont and New England; however, he has provided clinical workshops as far West as SanDiego, CA and as far South as Alexandria, VA. His clinical psychology career has spanned the period of 1985-2014. He is a Past President and Continuing Education Chair of The Vermont Psychological Association.

The Vermont Addictions Academy on Co-Occurring Disorders –

As past Clinical Director of Howard Center, MHSAS, Dr. Quintiliani has provided 10-12 all-day workshop per year for The Addictions Academy for the past 25 years. Each year the Academy presents 10-12 workshops on various clinical topics related to co-occurring disorders and professional ethics Dr. Quintiliani has been the Academy’s primary clinical trainer during this time period. The Academy’s workshops have been approved for CEU hours related to professionally licensed mental health and substance use disorder treatment professionals.

The Vermont Addictions Professionals Association –

Dr. Quintiliani has also provided approximately 4-5 all-day workshops per year for The Vermont Addictions Professionals Association and various State of Vermont Departments for the past ten years or so. Again, various clinical topics dealing with evidence-based therapies, mindfulness applications, and co-occurring disorders as well as professional ethics have been included. VAPA’s workshops have been approved for CEU hours for licensed mental health and substance use disorder treatment professionals.

Higher Education –

Dr. Quintiliani holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from The University of Vermont and various Master’s degrees. He has been teaching graduate levels courses (history, education, psychology, and counseling) since 1969. He has taught at The Ohio State University, where one of his edited textbook was adopted for required reading in a major introductory course. He has also taught at The University of Vermont, Southern New Hampshire University, and Saint Michael’s College. He has been a Graduate Lecturer in the Graduate Counseling Program at The University of Vermont since 1978.

Mindfulness and Meditation Training –

During the past ten years, Dr. Quintiliani has refined his clinical areas to include secular mindfulness and meditation trainings for clinical practitioners, business professionals and laypeople as means to reduce suffering and enhance personal happiness. Some of these workshops included school-based training programs in at least 5 Vermont school districts. Many other workshops have been provide to non-profit mental health and substance use treatments programs in Vermont. His

most recent workshop on mindfulness-based stress reduction for co-occurring disorders was taught this Summer at The New England Institute on Addiction Studies, Best Practices Conference in New Hampshire.

The Eleanor R. Liebman Center for the Study and Practice of Secular Meditation in Vermont –

For the past two years, Dr. Quintiliani has served as the Head Teacher at The Eleanor R. Liebman Center for the Study and Practice of Secular Meditation in Monkton, Vermont. In that capacity, he has lead approximately 20 meditation training workshops and retreats. His approach – “MBSR and Beyond” includes the core evidence-based practices of secular Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (Jon Kabat-Zinn and others), and integrations from Clinical Health Psychology. His training product looks like this: Skill practices in basic MBSR with refinements from various other evidence-based mindfulness approaches, especially those involving Clinical Health Psychology.

Mindful Happiness Book and Mindful Happiness Website –

In 2014 Dr. Quintiliani published Mindful Happiness and opened his mindful happiness website (www.mindfulhappiness.org). Both resources publicize clinical, mindfulness-based, and happiness- based information and skill practices at layperson and professional levels of expertise. Many thanks to his brother, Steven Quintiliani, Psy.D., for editing the text. Great appreciation to his nephew, Bob Gallagher, for many hours working on the website.

Philanthropic Activities –

Since August of 2011, when his beloved wife Eleanor died unexpectedly, Dr. Quintiliani has provided many free and reduced-cost workshops on mindfulness and meditation to various non-profits in Vermont. He is a believer in compassion and wise-mind practices; he feels it is time to give something back to society. He is strongly opposed to uncontrolled greed in America. In 2012 he established The Eleanor R. Liebman Fund at Vermont Community Foundation; this small grant fund provides free mindfulness (inner peace) and happiness (inner joy) activities for adults suffering from severe mental health challenges. This project was one of Ellie’s last great ideas.

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May you be MINDFUL
May you be SAFE
May you be HEALTHY
May you be HAPPY
May you live with EASE

Interoceptive Practices for Generic Tai Chi & Chi Kung Postures By Anthony R. Quintiliani, Ph.D. From The Eleanor R. Liebman Center for the Study of Secular Meditation in Monkton, Vermont These practices will require either knowledge of Tai Chi/Chi Kung postures or following pictures of the same postures. Be prepared before you begin to practice. […]

Vipassana Meditation -No-Self Journey 3 In this third vipassana meditation I will guide you on a meditation dealing with the experience of no-self. No-self is a highly advanced experience in Buddhist meditation and wisdom practices, and it is, perhaps, one of the most misunderstood concept and experience. Along with impermanence, dependent origination, typical reality […]

Preverbal Trauma – Therapy Problems A. R. Quintiliani, Ph.D., LADC Preverbal trauma (hereafter PVT) is one of the most pervasively troubling human conditions. PVT occurs when a preverbal child is exposed to parental, caretaker, or other forms of abuse. This abuse may be sexual, physical, or emotional. This form of abuse is so destructive because […]

Tibetan Tantric Meditation on Selflessness Mahamudra meditations tend to unify emptiness and bliss, and represent many core principles of Tibetan Buddhism. Nagarjuna’s text on The Middle Way played an important and influential role in these practices. Selflessness of persons and selflessness of phenomena are highly represented in noted meditation practices. Therefore,, this can be considered […]

Use of Breathing Techniques – Do a Polyvagal Test First Polyvagal Test The polyvagal theory (S.Porges) and polyvagal functions are complex, highly important, evolutional processes with powerful influences on human survival, overall physical health, and emotion regulation. The tenth cranial nerve (from scull base to anus) functions in various ways, the most important of which […]

Wise Mind and the Neuroscience of Mindfulness Practice What is wise mind? Marsha M. Linehan developed this clinical process in her work on dialectical behavior therapy. Wise mind is the middle way between rational/reasonable mind and emotional mind; it allows us to live with balanced reason and emotion in daily interactions. When practiced regularly, it […]

College Students – Mental Health in The US R. Quintiliani, Ph.D., LADC The Association of University and College Counseling Center Directors has released data on the mental health status of American college students. Two survey between 2016 and 2018 yielded results from as far back as 2014. Here are some selected statistics (rounded): Anxiety 47-61%; […]

Psychodynamics of Alliance – Therapeutic Relationship Enhancement This post includes basic considerations, processes, and clinical skills necessary for developing a strongly positive clinical alliance and therapeutic relationship in therapy. Here the alliance is required for any substantial change in psychotherapy, and the therapeutic relationship rides the quality of the initial alliance to expand and inter-penetrate […]

From The Eleanor R. Liebman Center for Secular Meditation We humans have a unique way of perceiving and processing emotional experiences. Years ago I developed a formula to understand the perception and process of emotional experiences: CABS-VAKGO-IS/Rels. The C stands for cognition; we spend a great deal of time thinking about pretty much everything we […]

The Lotus Sutra and Meditatin Practice The Lotus Sutra is one of the most important and sacred of Buddhist sutras. It is often considered a summary of The Buddha’s teaching, presented many years after he began to teach and share his experiences. The version considered here is the Kumarajiva translation, as translated by B. Watson; it […]

Interoception and Your Inner Self-Helper Interoception (sometimes called neuroception) is a sensory experience, in which you feel sensations in your body (viscera, heart, throat, etc.) that may be warning signs of limbic surveillance or inner continuity of your inner self-helper – that part of you and your brain that hopes to help you in whatever […]

Cognitive Defusion in Mindfulness Psychotherapy A well-meaning therapist might ask: What is cognitive defusion. Well this practice, as used in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, is beyond cognitive restructuring of cognitive distortions and automatic negative thoughts ( I call “Red Ants”). The practice concretely de-literalizes the personal truth and meaning of unhelpful, repetitive thoughts and words. […]

Human Needs and Spiritual Experience and the Need for Supportive Rituals From the Eleanor R. Liebman Center for Secular Meditation in Monkton, Vermont Recently the Human Givens Blog in the United Kingdom presented a post about human needs. I will paraphrase their information as well as information from other sources for Mindful Happiness. Having such […]

Supervision and Self-Care in Trauma Therapy Today there is an ever-increasing demand for effective trauma therapy. Our American clinical history on this matter leaves much to be desired. John N. Briere and Cheryl B. Lanktree offer important suggestions on how to use clinical supervision and self-care in your clinical work with clients suffering from serious […]

Meditations and Mantra: Try Them Out in Your Practice There are many forms of meditation. In most cases, the common meditation forms fall into one of two categories: Mindfulness and Insight. There are also demanding concentration meditations, chakra meditations, and mantra meditations. Here we’ll deal only with the two forms noted above and the use […]

Helping Professions and Emotional Balance Helping professions must practice to achieve emotional balance. Working conditions for the helping professions have become more and more difficult over time, especially with the advent of so called “helpful technologies” and ever-increasing governmental/funding requirements for documentation. When I started in the (behavioral health) field of clinical psychology and addictions […]

Loving Kindness Meditation – More Thoughts Some less experienced meditators complain about how easily the mind’s wandering thoughts distract them from paying attention and deepening concentration. This is a very common problem in meditation practice, and not always just for novices. Here is a solution for you to try. In Loving Kindness Meditation, you focus […]

A Buddhist Sutta on Your Desires and Suffering This post is about the Buddhist Sutta called The Gilana Sutta (SN 35:74). It is a touching story about a young monk, who became very ill. Another monk informed The Buddha of the young monk’s health conditions. Buddha visited and hoped he had improved and held on to […]

Using Mindful Movement as a Form of Meditation Practice with the Body In Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction practices Hatha Yoga has been used as part of the recovery process from both psychological and physical suffering. In my own clinical use of mindful movement with children, youth and adults, I found that basic Qi Gong/Che Kung, Walking […]

Forgiveness Meditation Practice – Mindful Happiness – Dr Anthony Quintiliani Sit comfortably in a meditation posture. Allow your breath to remain natural without any intentional modification. Allow your body to relax, and allow your mind to be open to and to expect forgiveness. Focus attention on your heart area deep within your soul, and allow […]