He is a Diplomate in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and a former Vice President of the Board of the C. G. Jung Foundation in New York. He has a full-time counseling practice and serves as West-Side Area Director for the Psychotherapy and Spirituality Institute (www.mindspirit.org). Dr. Jones is an ordained minister in the New York Conference of the United Methodist Church and Chairman of the Sangha Council at the Won Buddhist Temple in Manhattan where he has worshipped for the past 8 years. He has always been interested in the relationship between psychology and spirituality and particularly in the relevance of Buddhist thought and meditative practice to Western Psychotherapy.