Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy

LIsa Dale Miller, MFT #43725
Los Gatos, CA USA
adults—adolescents—couples

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Lisa Dale Miller, MFT is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
in private practice, specializing in Mindfulness-based psychotherapy.

CALM MIND AND WISE HEART
RETURN TO YOUR OWN TRUE NATURE

I help people learn how to relieve suffering and cultivate genuine happiness. It would be a joy to help you find the peace of mind and openheartedness you long for. Most people I work with suffer with one or more of these problems: depression, anxiety, loss, trauma, substance abuse, relationship distress, or chronic illness.

The kind of relief I favor directly targets the root of all forms of human suffering: unending dissatisfaction with oneself due to very little direct experience of the mind as radiant and joyful. Transforming a mind mired in this kind of suffering requires tools that generate direct insight into who we are and how we create our own suffering.

The best tools to achieve this are offered by Mindfulness-based psychotherapy (MBP). Mindfulness is an evidence-based treatment for depression, anxiety, and substance abuse.

This form of therapy concentrates on relieving suffering through the cultivation of three main areas of human development: 1) insight or wisdom, 2) skillful behavior, and 3) loving-kindness and compassion for self and others. The internal narratives most people tell themselves about themselves are stories of self-loathing, self-judgment, self-blame, and self-doubt. In all cases these negative narratives are untrue. The real story of you is one of self-efficacy, lovableness, acceptance, and generosity. Our work will allow you to directly experience the distressful contents of mind, and open to your innate radiant, clear, joyful, and unperturbed mind.

I often work with professionals in high-stress careers, couples in distress, adolescents (particularly depressed, anxious, or stressed teens) and with adults who struggle with emotion dysregulation. MBP focuses on cultivating mental clarity, inner calm, emotional equanimity, and greater resilience. These important qualities decrease mental and emotional distress, stress-related physical/emotional symptoms, and relational problems. When we can be with things as they truly are without habitual negativity, creative problem solving and skillful responses arise naturally. Mindfulness, compassion, and acceptance are the core of a life lived with enthusiasm and joy and the path to returning yourself to wellness.

I am a teacher of Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP) for addiction, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for depression relapse prevention, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and have created a Mindfulness-Based Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) program which integrates mindfulness meditation practices with DBT's cognitive-behavioral emotion regulation skills.

Mindfulness-based psychotherapy is psychodynamic (dealing with underlying causes) and cognitive behavioral (actively working on changing unhealthy thoughts and actions) and uses mindfulness practices to awaken insight. These diverse, yet complementary modalities promote active change in clients by reducing stress and enlivening greater self-awareness, self-reflectivity, compassion for self and others, and a deepened sense of inner peace.

My private practice fees are as follows:

$120.00 per individual therapy session (approximately 50 minutes).

$175.00 per conjoint (marital/family) therapy session (approximately 80 minutes).

Groups fees are determined by the length of program

Lisa Dale Miller, MFT is a mindfulness-based psychotherapist in Los Gatos, CA, specializing in the treatment of depression, anxiety, addiction, relationship distress, and emotion dysregulation. Lisa is a presenter at conferences on the clinical applications of mindfulness and is on the faculty of eMindful.com. She teaches MBSR, MBCT, MBRP (Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention for addiction recovery). Lisa has been a yogic and Buddhist meditation practitioner for more than 30 years. She holds an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. Her masters thesis, Uncertainty, Nothingness, Beingness revisioned depression through the lenses of philosophy of quantum physics, Existential psychology, and Buddhist philososphy/psychology.