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Sally Miller

Meet Sally Miller

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

Sally Miller is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Connecticut and Florida with over two decades of clinical experience. She specializes in helping couples break free from relationship-defeating patterns and regain connection. Sally also assists clients individually regarding stress, anxiety, and life or family transitions. Her regular practice involves helping clients overcome challenges related to shame, anxiety, lack of direction or decision-making, and reclaiming purpose and meaning.

Sally obtained her master’s degree from the Marriage and Family Therapy program at the University of Connecticut, which specialized in systemic and structural therapy. She has a diverse professional background and has supervised clinicians, provided psychoeducation to law enforcement and first responders, and conducted individual and couple therapy in various settings. Her tangible skill set is enhanced by advanced postgraduate training in Emotion-based Relational Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction.

Since her first neuroscience class, Sally has harbored a particular interest in the why and how the brain does what it does. She utilizes this understanding to increase the level of achievement for her clients. Her work embodies her ongoing scholarly pursuits, including brain science research by Dan Siegel, Bessel van der Kolk, and Julianne Shore in the field of interpersonal neurobiology.

Sally’s work commences with the recognition that early in life, every individual constructs a playbook of coping mechanisms in response to their circumstances. Furthermore, as psychologist Carl Jung puts it, “What saves us in the morning of our lives kills and restricts us in the afternoon”; that is to say, the strategies we formulate early on are effective until they cease to be so. This is when Sally finds people in her office when their strategies stop working.

Sally’s highly active therapeutic approach comprises three phases: recognizing negative patterns, healing old wounds, and imparting effective strategies to empower clients to lead their best lives. Her clients characterize her as approachable, skilled, knowledgeable, and sincere while willing to speak the truth with genuine, warm regard. Clients can expect respect, empathy, and change during this process.

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