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

Mindfulness Expands the Art of Journal Writing T. Merton, J. Kerouc, I. Progoff, J. Upton, and others have helped to expand the art or journal writing practice. This type of practice can become your mindfulness practice. You will need to write on a daily basis (even if briefly), and you will need to be highly […]

More Characteristics of Happiness – Happiness #4 Here I will continue my posts about the common characteristics of happiness. Here is the list. Keep an Open Mind – Maintaining an open mind opens up doorways to interesting things in the world, some of which may help you to become happier. Also, open-mindedness reduces inner tension […]

Basics of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is, perhaps, one of the major contributions to evidence-based mindfulness therapies. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s development of this model of intervention was both timely and exquisite. In clinical care of psychological and physical problems, these skills and practices are of utmost importance for improving (according to the most recent […]

Journaling and Grief Process Regular brief journaling may be helpful in your grief and horror regarding significant personal losses of self and/or others. Here are the various ways it may be helpful to you. Writing and reading about your personal loss experience may help you to make sense of the process, and at the same […]

Gurdjieff’s The Fourth Way to Consciousness: Background A core teachings is that there are three ways of being: the fakir (master of the physical body); the monk (master of faith and feeling); and, the yogi (master of mind development). A key goal is to KNOW yourself at the deepest levels. To KNOW is to be, […]

Expanded Lectio Divina for Self-Development In this post I will provide an expanded version of this process by combining information from Origen, the Carthusian Monk Guigo II, and Augustine of Hippo. The presented process of 12 steps may be used to enhance internalization of sacred writing and/or to support internal healing of the participants. […]

Anahata – Heart Chakra Meditation Practice Rumi noted that to reach the sky we must use our hearts. The Heart Chakra is a very popular focus of meditation practice. Here we will simply review some characteristics and then move on to a meditation practice. Specific characteristics: Green color, YAM sound (say at least three times […]

Vipassana Meditation – Emptiness One of the great insights from regular, long-term vipassana practice is the experience of emptiness. The actual knowing of it by the experience of it. This is not your typical conceptual emptiness of the West; it is not total void, negative beings, or nihilistic pit, or suffering in endlessness. It is […]

The True Nature of Phenomena Here I will present common steps in the process of vipassana meditation. My presentation will end with a brief discussion of nirvana (enlightenment). 1) It will be helpful not to have strong conceptual intention about your goal of attaining insight. You will know when you have entered it via your […]

Mindful Happiness – Happiness – Guided Imagery of Your Life This experience will include guided imagery and multi-sensory memory of happy experiences in your life. At time, shadow experience may pop up, in which a happy memory has an unhappy component. Your mindful concentration will be needed to remain on track with only the happy […]

The Needs of Traumatized Children – Learning Activity As a means to hone in on your helping behaviors, complete this learning activity. NEEDS List a Concrete Example for Each Unmet Need. Biological _______________________________________________ Psychological ____________________________________________ Social __________________________________________________ Emotional _______________________________________________ Educational ______________________________________________ Spiritual ________________________________________________ Attachment ______________________________________________ What can YOU do to help meet […]

Trauma Therapy: Basics from Some Expert Clinicians For many years trauma therapist have used many approaches in their psychotherapy. Most of these approaches lack strong empirical support for outcomes, and are often the “favorites” of these therapists. One might wonder what benefits therapists derive from using approaches that are not evidence-based. If an intervention fails […]

Loving Kindness – An Alternative Version The writings of Thich Nhat Hanh offer a different version of Loving Kindness Meditation or Metta (Pali). This version may be influenced by Buddhaghosa in Visuddhimagga (or The Path to Purification, fifth century system of The Buddha’s teachings). The reality of no-self, or a static, permanent and inherent self is a core […]

Tips for Improving Your Mindfulness Practices The following practices may improve your mindfulness skills. It all depends – it all depends on whether or not you will do regular, daily practices. If you desire to improve your mindfulness skills, consider following the tips noted below. Most of the practices below involve sitting meditation. Likewise, regular […]

How to Find & Choose an Effective Therapist Recently The Harvard Health Newsletter posted some interesting questions to ask while seeking out a psychotherapist. I will add a few more details and areas of inquiry in this post. Keep in mind that these questions and inquiries do not mean you will be happy and improve […]

Insights – Vipassana Mediation There will be future, more advanced vipassana meditations posted on the site. For now, however, we will end this series with a final post about the insights often experienced via vipassana meditation. We learn via experience about impermanence, suffering and its causes, no-self, emptiness and many other things – or, perhaps, […]

Mindful Happiness – Brain on Meditation Reports from various MRI and self-report measure studies support the proposition that your brain changes (neuronal plasticity) when you practice meditation on a regular (daily) basis. The same is likely true when you practice yoga on a regular basis. Here are some noted changes in brain functioning that […]

Practice: Mindful Actions to Improve YOUR Self-Esteem Improving Your Awareness with Practice Remain mindfully aware of the content and meta-cognition regarding the “speaking” of your inner, self-conscious critic. Note what trends appear in the conversation. Remain mindfully aware of the reactions your mind and body experience regarding the activity of your inner self-critic in dealing […]

Gratitude Practices to Improve your Emotional Mood The following fourteen suggestions may improve your emotional mood. One reward from practicing gratitude is that we tend to feel a little better no matter what our causes and conditions are at the time. Here is the list. Make a habit of thanking people. “Thank you.” Appreciate […]

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 […]