Paul Meier is an MD, Psychiatrist, and an Ordained Minister who is the founder of the Meier Clinics. He has authored or co-authored over 80 books, mostly Christian self-help books like Love is a Choice and Happiness is a Choice, and also a series of Bible Prophecy novels, including The Third Millennium. He has been on many secular and Christian TV and radio shows, including Oprah Winfrey, Tom Snyder, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Joni Eareckson Tada, Joyce Meyer, and many others. He has traveled to countries all over the world to train both professional and lay counselors, as well as missionaries and pastors, in the field of Christian Counseling. He taught full-time for twelve years at Dallas Theological Seminary, where he spent lots of extra time discipling promising young students like Tony Evans, John Trent, John Townsend, Henry Cloud, and many others.
He has lectured at seminaries around the world including Southwestern Seminary in Ft. Worth, the Baptist Seminary in Cuba, and the Greek Bible Institute and Seminary in Athens. In 1985, he was the team physician for a mountain climbing expedition of Mt. Ararat with American astronaut Jim Irwin to find Noah’s Ark. Dr. Meier’s team was chased away by terrorists.
The Meier Clinics have launched many ministries throughout the years. Countless people have trusted Christ through various Meier Clinics counseling sessions and ministries that have branched off from Meier Clinics. Over 100 Christian psychiatrists, psychologists, and therapists, coast-to-coast, see thousands of clients each week, and they provide hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in charitable care.
Dr. Meier’s daily prayer partner is Dr. Jean-Luc Bertrand, of Paris. Dr. Meier’s previous daily prayer partner, Dr. David Larson, died of a heart attack in March of 2002. A permanent Chair (scholarship) was named after Dr. Larson in the Library of Congress because over half of the medical schools in the United States now have courses on spirituality that Dr. Larson designed. The only other permanent Chair in the Library of Congress belongs to Henry Kissinger. The American Association of Christian Counselors honored Dr. Meier in 2003 as a father of the Christian Psychology movement, and Christianity Today Magazine has called Dr. Meier a “Modern Day Reformer” for moving Christianity more toward an openness to admitting faults, getting counseling, being less legalistic, and even a willingness to take psychiatric medications if necessary.
Dr. Meier has been a guest speaker at Awakening, an annual weekend retreat designed as an opportunity for business and political leaders to exchange ideas, examine trends and learn from leading authorities and policymakers in a variety of fields. Dr. Meier was honored and acknowledged in 2007 by President George Bush, members of the U.S. Congress and the NRCC as a Physician of the Year Honoree.
PUBLISHED BOOKS AUTHORED OR CO-AUTHORED BY PAUL MEIER MD (These books have sold more than 8 million copies in more than 30 languages
- The Angry Man
- Ask the Doctors – Questions and Answers
- Be Strong and Surrender
- Beating Burnout – Balanced Living for Busy People
- Beating the Clock – A Guide to Maturing Successfully
- Before Burnout
- Beyond the Millennium (fictional novel)
- Blue Genes – Breaking free from the chemical imbalances that affect your moods, your mind, your life, and your loved ones
- Breaking Through Depression
- Bruised and Broken – Understanding Psychological Problems
- Caring for Aging Loved Ones
- Childrearing
- Choices of Champions
- Christian Child Rearing and Personality Development
- Compelled to Achieve
- The Complete Book of Baby and Child Care
- The Complete Life Encyclopedia
- Counseling and the Nature of Man
- Crazymakers
- Don’t’ Let Jerks Get the Best of You – Dealing with Impossible People
- Experiencing God Outside the Box
- The Fakers – Exploding the Myths of the Supernatural
- Family Foundations
- Fear Less for Life
- Filling the Holes in our Souls
- Effective Small Groups
- Finding Purpose Beyond Our Pain
- First Time Parents
- The First Two Years
- Formula for a Happy Marriage
- The Fourth Millennium (fictional novel)
- Free to Forgive – Daily Devotions for Adult Children of Abuse
- Getting The Best of Your Anger Before It Gets The Best of You
- Guérir à jamais de la dépressionet et des coups de blue (French book on genetics by Dr. Paul Meier and Dr. Jean-Luc Bertrand)
- Growing In Step – Your Guide to Successful Step-parenting
- Growing Stronger – 12 Guidelines Designed to Turn Your Darkest Hour Into Your Greatest Victory
- Happiness Is A Choice – A Manual on the Symptoms, Causes, and Cures of Depression
- Happiness Is A Choice for Teens
- Happy Holidays – How to Beat the Holiday Blues
- The Healthy Christian Life (Available in English and Indonesian)
- The Healthy Pastor
- Hiding from Love
- How to Beat Burnout – Help for Men and Women
- Introduction to Psychology and Counseling (A College Textbook)
- Love Hunger – Recovery from Food Addiction
- Love Hunger Weight-Loss Workbook
- Love Is A Choice – Recovery for Codependent Relationships
- Love Is A Choice Workbook
- Managing Stress and Workaholism
- Mastering Your Moods
- Meaning in Life (with Keith Cobern)
- Meditating for Success
- Mega Millennium Series (fiction)
- Me Too and You: Healing Together from Personal Trauma
- Miracle Drugs – How They Work and What You Should Know About Them
- The Monster Within – Overcoming Bulimia
- Mood Swings
- The Money Diet
- A Mother’s Choice – A Guide to Responsible Parenting
- Mut zur Liebe (German audiobook on Love is a Choice)
- Obtaining Peace
- Overcoming Loneliness
- The Path to Serenity
- The Postpartum Survival Guide
- The Power of a New Attitude Raising Your Child – From Birth to Twelve
- Raising Your Child (From Birth to Twelve)
- Renewing Your Mind in a Secular World
- Rooted in Peace: Uprooting Anxiety from Your Life (with Nancy Brown)
- Safe Places – Finding Serenity in the Passages of Life
- The Secret Code (fictional novel)
- The Serenity Bible (Paul Meier and the Meier clinics editing team)
- Seven Secrets for a Happy Family
- Sex in the Christian Marriage
- Sexual Addiction
- A Solitary Sorrow (Foreward)
- The Spiritual Life Guide
- The Stress Factor
- The Struggle is Real (Modern Parenting)
- Surviving Toddlerhood
- Surviving Traumatic Stress
- Sweet Dreams – A Guide to Productive Sleep
- Taking Control
- Substance Abusers and Their Families
- Teen Health
- The Third Millennium (fictional novel)
- Toddlerhood
- Unbreakable Bonds – Practicing the Art of Loving and Being Loved
- Walk With the Serenity Prayer – Daily Devotions for People in Recovery
- Walvoord: A Tribute
- 100 Ways to Defeat Depression
- 100 Ways to Live a Happy and Successful Life
- 100 Ways to Obtain Peace – Overcoming Anxiety
- We Are Driven
- What I’ve Learned Since I Knew It All
- What They Didn’t Teach You in Seminary
- When Life Isn’t Fair
- Why Be Lonely?–A Guide to Meaningful Relationships
- Windows of the Soul – A Look at Dreams and Their Meanings
- Winning is a Choice
- The Workaholic and His Family
- Worry-Free Living – Turning Anxiety into a Positive Tool
- WWJD? – The Question that Will Change Your Life (devotional)
- You Can Measure Your Mental Health
- You Can Measure Your Spiritual Health
- You Might Be a Narcissist If…