Instructor, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Mary Matthews Brantley, MA, LMFT, has been practicing meditation for more than 25 years. She has done many intensive retreats, and her teachers have included Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein, Larry Rosenberg, Rodney Smith, Ruth Denison, Joan Halifax, and Thich Nhat Hanh.

She has been an instructor in the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program at Duke Integrative Medicine since 2000. She has a master's degree in psychology from Pepperdine University.

In addition to teaching, she has developed and taught a course based on loving-kindness meditation. She is co-author of The Gift of Loving-Kindness: 100 Meditations on Compassion, Forgiveness, and Generosity from New Harbinger Publications.