Ron Vereen, MD

Ron Vereen is a board-certified psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and certified group psychotherapist in private practice in Durham and Consulting Associate in the Department of Psychiatry at Duke University.  Having practiced mindfulness since 1992, he began teaching this to others in 1999 as an instructor in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at Duke Integrative Medicine, as well as integrating mindfulness principles into his psychotherapy practice.  He applies a mindfulness-informed approach to individual and group therapy modalities in the treatment of a variety of difficulties ...

Jeffrey Brantley, MD

Jeff is a native of North Carolina, a physician, psychiatrist, meditation teacher, and author.  For most of sixty-six years, he has studied history and humanities, practiced medicine and psychiatry, and personally explored a variety of spiritual traditions and contemplative practices, all with the intention of better understanding and supporting the conditions that can empower anyone to find out for themselves what it means to act as a conscious, compassionate human being in this amazing and complex world. Training Education

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Phyllis K. Hicks, D Min, NCLPC

Phyllis Hicks is a psychotherapist and meditation teacher. She directs the Pastoral Care and Counseling Institute, a nonprofit in Durham, NC and offers psychotherapy, mindfulness based interventions and clinical training. For twenty-five years she has melded eastern and western understandings of psychology and contemplative practice, studying with a variety of western Vipassana teachers since 1999. She participated in professional training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli. She has trained intensively with Gregory Kramer in the practice of Insight Dialogue since 2004 ...