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Joseph Loizzo, MD, PhD, is a contemplative psychotherapist, Buddhist scholar, and author with over four decades’ experience integrating Indo-Tibetan mind science and healing arts into modern neuropsychology, psychotherapy, and clinical research. He is founder and academic director of the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science, developer of its Contemplative Psychotherapy Program, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, and a clinician in private practice in Manhattan.

Fiona Brandon, MPS, MA, MFT, is a psychotherapist, contemplative educator, group facilitator, and the director of the Nalanda Institute’s Compassion-Based Resilience Training and Embodied Contemplative Psychotherapy programs. For more than fifteen years she has integrated Buddhist psychology, depth psychology, and meditation into her clinical work with adults and couples in her private practice in San Francisco.

Emily J. Wolf, PhD, MSEd, is the founder and director of Contemplative Psychology PC, where she provides psychotherapy, clinical supervision, and training for mental health providers. She has conducted groundbreaking research on the integration of contemplative methods of Indian yoga and meditation into Western psychodynamic therapy, recovery, and health education and is a former director and co-developer of the Nalanda Institute’s Contemplative Psychotherapy program. She is also an adjunct clinical instructor of psychology at Weill Cornell Medical College.

Miles Neale, PsyD, is a Buddhist psychotherapist in private practice, founder of the Contemplative Studies Program, and clinical instructor of psychology at Weill Cornell Medical College. He has more than twenty years of experience integrating Tibetan Buddhism and psychology, is the author of Return with Elixir (2023) and Gradual Awakening (2018), and leads Buddhist pilgrimages throughout Asia.