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Dr. Miller provides individual, couples, and family therapy. She works with children (as young as age three), adolescents, and adults. She welcomes all individuals who are interested in healing and personal growth, regardless of age, religion, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status.
Dr. Miller provides self-nurturance oriented therapy to ALL of her clients, although her approach is unique to each individual.
With children, Dr. Miller often utilizes play therapy, art therapy, skills training, and working with parents and teachers on appropriate methods for an individual child. She will sometimes attend a school IEP to ensure that her client’s needs are appropriately addressed in the school setting. Dr. Miller often communicates with parents, teachers, school counselors, pediatricians, child psychiatrists, and other involved professionals to coordinate treatment/care when working with a child client.
With adolescents, Dr. Miller provides her clients with the very important confidentiality that is necessary for the therapeutic trust that can be difficult to develop with adolescents. She coordinates with parents, teachers, and other related professionals, She focuses on providing adolescent clients with a safe environment to process their experiences, support, assertiveness training, promoting the development of empathy and self-nurturance, and referral for medication evaluation if needed. Often, family therapy is offered in conjunction to individual therapy.
Adults often seek therapy with Dr. Miller for addressing problems with relationships, or with adjusting to specific stressors. Dr. Miller primarily focuses on assisting her adult clients in developing the self-awareness and skills required for effective self-nurturance. Often this involves the individual exploring their own hurdles or inner obstacles blocking them from effective self-nurturance. This is usually connected to childhood experiences with unmet needs, trauma, and poor modeling. Dr. Miller assists her clients in healing the sources of their inner resistance to self-nurturance.
Dr. Miller does is not willing to testify in court proceedings regarding her current or past clients. She is a purist regarding psychotherapy and feels that forensic and psychotherapeutic endeavors are mutually exclusive.
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