Linda Miller, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in evidence-based adult individual counseling and therapy and state of the art empirical-based marital therapy.
Areas of expertise
Services for Individuals:
Reducing stress, anxiety, and depression, coping better with health-related challenges, adapting to losses and life changes, relationship difficulties.ducing stress, anxiety, and depression, coping better with health-related challenges, adapting to losses and life changes, relationship difficulties.
Services for Couples:
Improving communication and closeness, reducing negativity and conflict, repairing trust. Couples married or not, of all races, ages and sexual preferences are welcome. Premarital counseling and marital counseling for one are available.
Ms. Miller is 100% dedicated to providing the highest quality of professional services available. She loves using her decades of acquired knowledge and skills combined with kindness, to help each person make the changes they seek.
Ms. Miller is practical, interactive, and results-oriented. Her therapy style is integrative, since research about what makes therapy succeed has established that successful therapy is not a” one size fits all” endeavor. In individual counseling/therapy one particular approach is not more effective than another in spite of what you may have heard. It is the fit between a particular individual and the therapy approach offered which leads to the best outcomes. Therapy is customized to the specific needs, desires, and goals of each individual. She is fond of saying “I’m an expert on using therapeutic strategies which work, you are the expert on what works for you, so we work as a team.” She draws from approaches such as cognitive-behavioral, schema therapy, interpersonal, attachment, emotionally- focused, acceptance, and commitment, narrative and psychodynamic.
Ms. Miller is a Certified Master Gottman Marital Therapist and is one of the most experienced and highly skilled Certified Gottman Marital Therapists in California, having been trained personally by John and Julie Gottman in 2001. Her skills in helping couples powerfully change are enhanced by extensive advanced training in Emotionally-Focused Therapy with Sue Johnson and in Imago Therapy with Harville Hendrix. She completed the Advanced Externship in Emotionally-Focused Therapy in 2007.
Ms Miller has appeared on television representing the Department of Behavioral Health of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation.to discuss the effects of stress. She has presented at national conferences and trained other mental health professionals in Gottman Marital Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Schema Therapy, and the use scientific findings about therapy outcome to maximize the effectiveness of psychotherapy. She has presented classes and seminars to the general public on many topics including adjustment to parenthood, parenting teens, and improving marriage. She provides training seminars to physicians at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation and to physicians in the community on topics relating to managing mental health concerns in medical practice.
Certifications & Associations
Visit my profile at Psychology Today
Visit my profile at Good Therapy
Visit my profile at The Gottman Institute
Visit my profile at The California Society for Clinical Social Work
Certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapist 1995 British Psychological Society
Personal Health Improvement Program Certified Facilitator
I am an approved mental health provider for Sutter and Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Heard is an organization to increase collaboration amongst primary care, mental health and educational professionals to enhance the community’s ability to promote well-being and reduce depression.
