Myrtle Heery

Myrtle Heery, Ph.D., walks her talk by remembering and using kindness in her daily life. She has published many articles and chapters in psychology journals and books. In addition, in 2013, she founded Tonglen Press. The first book for the press was Unearthing the Moment (2014), and the second was Awakening to Aging (2nd Edition, 2015). Heery was an editor for collections in both books. She is the founding director and instructor for the International Institute for Humanistic Studies, offering trainings in mindful existential-humanistic psychotherapy, and has managed a private practice for individual psychotherapy for the past 40 years. In August 2017, Dr. Heery was honored by the American Psychological Association, Division 32, Humanistic Psychology, with the Rollo May Award for “independent and outstanding pursuit of new frontiers in existential-humanistic psychotherapy.”