Dr. Renee Miller is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), with a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (PsyD). She has over 25 years experience working with those who have experienced some form of trauma.
She is a Jungian trauma specialist, working from a depth-oriented approach. She has certification, training, and experience in providing Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), Depth-oriented psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Sandtray Therapy, DreamTending, and Connection-Focused Equine-Assisted Therapy. Dr. Miller works with those who struggle with wounds they carry from early childhood trauma, with complex, chronic and acute PTSD, and with addiction relapse triggers.
She also works with those in the medical and mental health fields who may be experiencing symptoms related to secondary trauma and compassion fatigue.
As a Certified EMDR therapist, Dr. Miller treats trauma using this evidence-based model of EMDR therapy that allows clients to reprocess traumatic memories in a way that is more adaptive and integrative…that is, in a way that allows clients to access and use information that may not have been available during the initial trauma/ distressing event. In this way, the memory is reprocessed in a more adaptive way, removing the distressing emotional charge and negative beliefs that can be overwhelming leftovers and triggers from those events.
As a Jungian therapist, Dr. Miller incorporates The Hero’s Journey, Parts Work, Sandtray, and DreamTending with EMDR, which helps clients, who are wanting to take a deeper dive into their work, accessing all that is within the memory network that has kept them stuck in negative beliefs, irrational thoughts, ineffective behaviors, and/or difficult, painful, and unrewarding relationships.
As an Equine-Assisted Psychotherapist (EAP), Dr. Miller incorporates ground work with horses as an experiential model of treatment for growth and learning. EAP can be helpful in the treatment of various emotionally distressing situations and symptoms, to include addiction, depression, anxiety, trauma, and relationship stress. It is helpful as an adjunct to office-based counseling services when clients want to explore what they are learning in their work with their primary therapists. EAP located in Poulsbo.