Author: Paul Meier, M.D., Founder and Nancy Meier Brown, Co-Founder/President

Paul Meier, M.D., is the founder of the nation-wide Meier Clinics (www.meierclinics.org) established in 1976. He is widely acknowledged as a pioneer in the integration of the physical aspects of man with the psychological and spiritual dimensions. Dr. Meier received his Masters of Science degree in Cardiovascular Physiology from Michigan State University, his Medical Degree (M.D.) from the University of Arkansas College of Medicine, and completed his psychiatric residency at Duke University. Dr. Meier attended graduate courses at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, in 1975-76 while as a full-time faculty member. He also holds a Master of Arts degree from Dallas Theological Seminary, where he served as a full-time faculty member in pastoral counseling for 12 years. In 1999, Dr. Meier was honored by the American Association of Christian Counselors with a Lifetime Achievement Award at their Worldwide Conference. In 2006, Dr. Meier was named as a Physician of the Year by The National Republican Congressional Committee and honored at a reception by the President of the United States and Congress in Washington, D.C.

Nancy Meier Brown has served the Clinics in business administrative roles since they began in 1976. In 2003, she oversaw the process of the clinics nationally becoming a 501c3 non-profit and tax-exempt organization through the formation with her brother, Dr. Paul Meier, of Meier Clinics Foundation. They wanted to respond to those seeking Christian mental health care who could not afford it and help them with charitable care discounts. The Clinics work in collaboration with other ministries, such as in the Dallas area through partnering with a ministry that helps women with unplanned pregnancies and providing adoptions; and with another ministry in Chicago, helping women who are being rescued from a life of sex trafficking, providing counseling and mental health care for them. We also have an office in Lawndale, an area of great poverty in Chicago, with Meier Clinics counselors who are ministering there. In January of 2011, Nancy founded Christian Counseling Professionals of Chicagoland, “CCPC”, which is a collaboration of many Christian counseling organizations and churches in the Chicago area that creates an Annual Clergy/Counselor Conference and workshops each year with nationally known speakers and authors. Nancy completed a business program at Bob Jones University and worked in Student Personnel at Wheaton College and then in commercial banking most of her career after her marriage before she began working at the Clinics. Her husband, David, has worked at Meier Clinics for 30 years, in the Business Accounting Division. David is a graduate of Aurora University and served faithfully in the Navy during the Viet Nam War.