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Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Faculty

Helen Barnes Vantine, PH.D. has a private psychotherapy practice in Marietta and Sandy Springs. She uses mindfully-informed psychotherapy with her individual patients. She also teaches mindfulness, including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to individual psychotherapy patients, couples and groups. One of her aspirations for her patients is to go beyond “ordinary unhappiness,” by expanding consciousness, acceptance, insight, love and joy through the practice of mindful presence.

Dr. Vantine began meditation practice in 1971 and has spent more than 35 years studying and training in Eastern and Western approaches to personal growth.  For the past decade she has studied Buddhist Psychology at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and has practiced Mindfulness Meditation at the Insight Meditation Center in Barre, Mass.  For the past five years she has undergone training as a teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at the Center for Mindfulness in Worchester, Mass.  She has participated in professional training with Jon Kabat-Zinn and the Center staff.  She was also trained by Zindel Segal in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy.  She has worked as a professor at Georgia State University teaching graduate students in School Psychology about mindfulness in education.

Michael J. Binns DDS is a general dentist in Marietta Georgia whose dental practice is exclusively root canal therapy (rootcanalplace.com). He is a 1981 graduate of Emory University School of Dentistry (DDS) and a 1977 graduate of Emory University College of Arts and Sciences (BA Psychology).

Dr. Binns became interested in mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) through his experience teaching yoga and has pursued training in this area. He has attended mindfulness training for health care professionals taught by Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli. Mike has also been a participant in the standard MBSR course as taught by the University of Massachusetts Center For Mindfulness, as well as a teacher of MBSR courses with Helen Vantine PHD, through the Atlanta Mindfulness Institute.

Mike is a registered yoga teacher (RYT) and teaches yoga at Wellstar’s Health Place in Marietta. He offers presentations and training on mindfulness and self-care to organizations, businesses, churches and civic groups who are interested in the potential physical, emotional and cognitive benefits of mindfulness practice for their members and employees.

Mike Binns may be reached at binnsmike@gmail.com

Nancy C. Weisman, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and a licensed marriage and family therapist. She has been in private practice in Marietta, GA for fifteen years as a psychologist and practiced previously as an MFT for eight years. Nancy specializes in children and families and has added mindfulness to her practice with great success. She has attended several mindfulness meditation retreats and has a personal meditation practice. Nancy has taught mindfulness techniques to children with ADHD, anxiety and depression and to their parents. When children learn mindfulness they become more aware of the richness of sensory experience and more skilled at attending, concentrating and taming negative emotions. At the Atlanta Mindfulness Institute, Nancy leads groups of parents and children who want to learn mindfulness. Mindful parenting leads to heightened awareness in the moment of what parent and child are feeling. The result is greater empathy, mutual understanding and appreciation of parent for child and child for parent.

“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
Buddha

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