Miles Neale, PsyD, LMHC is a Buddhist psychologist, meditation teacher and expert on the clinical application of contemplative arts and sciences. He is Assistant Director of the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Sciences, where he collaborates on scientific research of meditation and teaches the liberating practices of the Indo-Tibetan tradition.
Dr. Neale is of mixed British and Turkish heritage, born in Singapore, raised in Hong Kong, and has travelled extensively throughout the world. He has studied Buddhist philosophy and meditation while living for extended periods of time in traditional monastic settings in Thailand, Sri Lanka, China, India and Nepal.
Dr. Neale received his doctorate in clinical psychology in 2006 from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and is licensed to practice counseling and psychotherapy in the state of New York. He completed his psychology predoctoral internship and postdoctoral psychoanalytic training at the Fifth Avenue Center for Counseling and Psychotherapy in New York City. In 2001, Dr. Neale completed his Master’s research on the clinical applications of mindfulness meditation at New York University's Gallatin Program for Individualized Study. He graduated summa cum laude as a Wheaton Scholar from Wheaton College in 1998, where he pursued independently designed research in East/West comparative psychology.
Since 1998, Dr. Neale studied clinical applications of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism with his mentor Joseph Loizzo, MD, PhD, a Harvard trained psychiatrist, Columbia trained Buddhist scholar, and Founding Director of the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science. He has also been greatly influenced by preeminent Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman, PhD and Buddhist psychiatrist and author Mark Epstein, MD both of whom he studied with at Tibet House, New York.
Beginning in 1996, Dr. Neale received training from the late Insight meditation masters Godwin Samararatne and Anagarika Munidra while attending Antioch University’s Buddhist Studies Program in Bodh Gaya, India. He has also studied with renowned Tibetan masters Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Gelek Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche. For more on Dr. Neale’s teachers and influences see his Inspiration page.
In addition to his private psychotherapy practice and position at Nalanda, Dr. Neale is a teaching faculty member of the Tibet House, a Lineage Mentor of the Interdependence Project, and regularly offers lectures and workshops through his affiliates in the New York metropolitan area. Dr. Neale has taught meditation programs at prestigious university hospitals including Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Albert Einstein, and the California Pacific Medical Center. He consults on the design of contemplative programs for domestic and international organizations, wellness clinics, institutions of higher learning and private businesses, as well as leads spiritual pilgrimages to sacred sites around the world. In his personal time, Dr. Neale enjoys a daily hatha yoga practice and playing with his bulldogs.
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