Because they are an avid students of world religion, Dr. Wilson and Julia Wilson often incorporates key aspects of their clients’ existing spiritual or religious practices into their individual therapeutic processes and overall psychological growth.
Dr. Parker Wilson is Buddhist minister and clinical psychologist (ret), and he can provide advisement based on an extensive understanding and practice of Buddhist psychology and meditative technology. Julia Wilson is a recognized Tantric teacher, specializing in Tantric methodologies. Dr. Wilson is a university professor, doctor of clinical psychology, and a practicing Mahayana Buddhist. Both he and Ms. Julia Wilson have been highly trained in Buddhist and existential psychology and meditation by some of the greatest living Buddhist masters of our time. Dr. Wilson has been authorized to teach BuddhaDharma since 2004, and Ms. Wilson received permission to transmit the BuddhaDharma since 2010.
During the last thirty years, Dr. Parker Wilson and Ms. Julia Wilson have received extensive instruction in Buddhist psychology and various mindfulness and insight meditation techniques from: His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Ven. Thich Nhat Hahn, Ani Pema Chodron, Dr. B Alan Wallace, Ani Robina Courtin, and Dr. Robert Thurman - just to name a few.
AMI's clients – agnostics, atheists, Christians, Unitarians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and more – also find that Buddhist contemplations and meditations can be very useful aids in their existing spiritual and religious practices.