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.

CLICK HERE to Contact Dr Quintiliani about conducting or participating in a workshop, or to inquire about a consultation of any kind.

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

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 […]

Advanced Meditation Practices on Perception As the Sutra story goes, the Buddha instructed Ananda to visit the ailing venerable Girimananda, who was very, very ill. In an effort to help the ailing man, the Buddha told Ananda to guide him in the Ten Meditation on Perceptions (on sensory input and the objects of mind). According […]

Your Regular Practice: Impact on Yourself From the Eleanor R. Liebman Center for Secular Meditation in Monkton, Vermont Compassion Training: Here is a quick self-assessment process to see if your regular compassion practice has had positive effects on you. Review the questions below and decide what your answers are. I hope you have noted pleasant […]

Meditation for Managers and Helpers Let’s Talk – Contact Me – Click Here I am a Licensed Psychologist-Doctorate and a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor with 35 years of clinical experience in community clinics, schools, professional organizations, and universities (OSU, UVM, etc.). I have been the past Clinical Director of Howard Center, and Past President […]

Deepak Chopra’s Ideas on “The Future of God” – Part 3 of In this third and last post I will discuss Deepak Chopra’s views of the three worlds of human experience: Material, Subtle, and Transcendent. As usual, I will paraphrase and add my own comments as appropriate. Belief in god or a higher power has […]

Core Elements in Clinical Supervision In addition to what supervisors bring into group supervision and clinical training, the list below will be used for discussion about YOUR supervisory role. The order of content below is generally random. The content noted applies to clinical supervision; it could also apply to doing effective therapy. The skills and […]

Mindfulness On Loss, Grief and Mourning Mindfulness about personal loss, grief, and mourning may encompass many things. Here I will focus on the process and what people can do to better handle their suffering and pain. One way to look at it is through the lens of radical acceptance; another is via the reality of […]

More on Yoga Nidra Yoga nidra is sometimes called yoga sleep or yoga relaxation. It is a very powerful mindfulness technique that allows one to relax the body and limbic brain area, while holding mental control for deeper relaxation and projective practices without falling asleep. For some it may be like lucid dreaming, but a […]

Quintiliani’s Brief Life Experience Screening Years ago, when I received a rather large number of managed care referrals for adolescent “treatment failures” and their families, I soon realized that typical screening, assessment and therapy was NOT working well. I tried so, so hard to reach these young people – all experiencing extreme psychological suffering with […]

Mindfulness in the NFL Yes, mindfulness as part of sports psychology programming is being used in the NFL. Yes, big and physically tough football players are being helped via a mindfulness component of sports psychology. There are some important roots here. Dogen, the famous ancient Japanese Buddhist meditation master, brought Chan Buddhism from China to […]

Very “SAD” Facts about the Addictions Field A recent issue of the Addictions Professional presented very disturbing news about how clinicians in the field are doing. NOT WELL! Addictions clinicians treat people with addictions but mainly people with co-occurring disorders – addictions with trauma, depression, anxiety and/or eating disorders. Often there is also a co-occurring medical […]

Mindfulness Skills and Psychotherapy Outcomes There are at least ten good reasons why mindfulness training and regular practice may improve psychotherapy outcomes. These reasons assume the training is presented by a well-trained clinician-mindfulness practitioner. Of course improved outcomes also depend upon the client’s motivation and energy to actually practice mindfulness skills on a regular basis. […]

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 […]

Liberation of the True Self Socrates is reported to have noted that “the secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old but on building the new.” In Buddhism there are clear relationships between “no-self” and the force of impermanence, that reality that ensures constant change and thus personal […]

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 […]

Self-Reality Checks Are Needed in Your Mindful Clinical Practice It is highly important for helpers working in the co-occurring conditions field to become keenly aware of their own realities in practice and life that impact clinical effectiveness. Below I have listed four areas that show up in clinical surveys and added four more that I […]

Mindful Leadership Skills: How to Lead in Wise Mind Ways Researchers dealing with leadership skills have noted several acquired characteristics of effective leaders. These same skills may be used in spreading “the word” about how mindfulness and wise mind practices reduce stress reactivity, enhance compassion, and expand the possibilities for human happiness, inner peace and […]

Spiritual Mantras from Buddhism Spiritual Mantras: Mantra practice is certainly not informal Buddhism, nor is it a way to apply practical mindfulness skills to life. The path of mantra practice is much deeper than the psychological applications for good health. Mantra practice is a highly important part of formal Buddhist practice, especially on the spiritual […]

A Tribute to Ram Dass (Richard Alpert) Recently Ram Dass died at his home in Maui. He was 88 years old. He was born into a well-off Boston family, and enjoyed materialism in his early professional years. When completing a Ph.D. in Psychology at Stanford University he was still into material things. His spiritual awakening […]

A Radical Feminist in her Time Over 800 years ago Hildegard of Bingen presented radical viewpoints on women-power and male-dominance in the Christian Church, stone/gem healing, meditation, insight and intellect, the web of life or planetary oneness, being in nature, environmentalism, and personal stories of suffering, etc. Despite her outspoken manner and her popularity among […]