Dr. R. Neal Siler

Dr. R. Neal Siler, Senior Pastor of First Shiloh Baptist Church is a clinician and founder of The Healing Place Center for Counseling and Spiritual Formation. He holds a PhD in Counseling Psychology and a D. Min. in Formational Counseling. He is an adjunct professor and director of HCM International's Spiritual Formation and the Art of Spiritual Direction Program.

In addition to conducting numerous seminars and workshops in healing soul care for counselors, clergy and pastoral care professionals he is a contributing author for UMI's Pastor's Precepts Commentary, the author of How I Got Over: Healing for the African American Soul and several other books and small group curricula that focuses on spiritual formation, soul care and inner healing in the African American experience.