Services

Individual therapy provides children and adolescents with a safe, supportive space to build emotional resilience, strengthen coping skills, and work through life's challenges. Sessions are tailored to each child's developmental level, personality, and unique needs, drawing from evidence-based approaches such as Play Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) when appropriate.

Treatment may focus on anxiety, emotional regulation, executive functioning, attention and organization, self-esteem, interpersonal skills, trauma, behavioral concerns, and life transitions. Through therapy, children learn practical skills they can use at home, school, and in their relationships.

Although your child is the identified client, lasting growth happens within the context of their relationships. For that reason, client-absent parent or caregiver sessions are an essential part of treatment. These sessions provide caregivers with education, coaching, and practical strategies to support their child's progress, strengthen connection, and create a consistent environment where new skills can flourish. By partnering with caregivers, therapy supports the whole child—recognizing that children learn, grow, and thrive within the safety, security, and support of their family system.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) helps children process distressing experiences in a way that doesn't require them to retell every detail. Sessions incorporate gentle bilateral stimulation (such as eye movements, alternating sounds, or light tapping) along with play, art, storytelling, and other child-friendly activities to create a safe and engaging therapeutic experience.

EMDR can help children struggling with trauma, fears, anxiety, overwhelming emotions, behavioral changes, sleep difficulties, or reactions to stressful experiences. Because this treatment relies on specialized techniques and equipment, EMDR sessions with Dr. Miller are provided exclusively in person.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps children and teens develop healthy ways to respond to difficult thoughts, emotions, and life challenges. Rather than trying to eliminate uncomfortable feelings, ACT teaches young people how to make room for them while choosing actions that reflect their values and goals.

Sessions may include mindfulness activities, games, movement, storytelling, creative exercises, and age-appropriate discussions to build emotional awareness, flexibility, and resilience. ACT can be helpful for anxiety, depression, stress, ADHD, perfectionism, emotional regulation difficulties, and major life transitions. The goal is to help children and teens become more confident, adaptable, and engaged in the things that matter most to them.

Play is a child's natural language, and play therapy allows children to express thoughts, feelings, and experiences that may be difficult to put into words. Through carefully selected toys, games, art, and creative activities, children can safely explore emotions, build coping skills, strengthen relationships, and work through life's challenges.

Dr. Miller integrates both non-directive and directive play therapy based on each child's developmental needs and treatment goals. Non-directive play therapy allows children to lead the play while the therapist follows their cues, fostering emotional expression, confidence, and healing. Directive play therapy involves therapist-guided activities designed to teach specific skills, process difficult experiences, improve emotional regulation, or strengthen problem-solving abilities.

Play therapy can support children experiencing anxiety, trauma, behavioral concerns, grief, social challenges, ADHD, emotional regulation difficulties, family transitions, and other developmental or emotional concerns.

PCIT is an evidence-based treatment for young children with behavioral problems.

​The decision to whether PCIT is the most appropriate treatment for you and your child is between you and your mental health professional. 

PCIT is conducted through "coaching" sessions during which you and your child are in a playroom while the therapist is in an observation room watching you interact with your child through a one-way mirror and/or live video feed. You wear a "bug-in-the-ear" device through which the therapist provides in-the-moment coaching on skills you are learning to manage your child's behavior. PCIT is done across two treatment phases. 

Desired outcomes of the first phase of treatment in PCIT include:

• Increased feelings of security, safety, and attachment to the primary caregiver

• Increase in healthy attention-seeking behavior. 

• Increased attention span

• Increased self-esteem

• Increased pro-social behaviors (such as sharing and taking turns)

Desired outcomes of the second phase of treatment in PCIT include:

• Increased compliance with adult requests

• Increased respect for house rules

• Improved behavior in public

• Increased parental calmness and confidence during discipline

• Increase in healthy co/self-regulation behavior

PCIT can be provided to children 2-6 with modifications for children ages 7-10