ADULT PSYCHOTHERAPY
Depression and Anxiety
PTSD and C-PTSD
Medical Trauma
Grief and Loss
Relationship Discord
Life Transition
Burnout
BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY
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PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICES
Integrative Psychotherapy (IP) is an embodied, skills-based, results-oriented approach which increases awareness, presence, insight, and compassion. IP offers skills for resolving chronic depressive-collapsed and anxious-hyperaroused mind-body states, which hinder progress in traditional talk therapy and cognitive behavioral therapies.
Adult Psychotherapy
- GAIN clarity & insight
HEAL traumatic stress
CULTIVATE equanimity - CHOOSE a targeted or multi-faceted treatment plan
- ACHIEVE sustained mental health with a systems approach
- ATTEND wisely to one form of suffering and positively impact other concerns
- TRANSFORM anxiety, depression, traumatic stress, grief, burnout, life transition
Couples Counseling
- COMMUNICATE better
REBUILD intimacy
HEAL infidelity - My priority is to help stressed couples achieve a connected, skillful, emotionally-rich life
- Early trauma and current adversities can undermine healthy relationships
- Couples sessions are 80-minutes beause shorter sessions are not as effective
Trauma Psychotherapy
- PTSD/C-PTSD
EARLY TRAUMA
MEDICAL TRAUMA - Somatic Experiencing®, the life's work of medical biophysicist and psychologist Dr. Peter A. Levine, is a psychobiological method for resolving symptoms of trauma and stress
- SE™ skills are easy to learn and self-apply
- I am a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP)
BIO & FEES
Lisa Dale Miller LMFT LPCC SEP
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Lisa Dale Miller is licensed to practice psychotherapy in California (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist LMFT#43725 and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor LPCC#691), Washington (LMFT#61254534), New York (LMFT#001283-1) and Oregon (LMFT#T1207) and is a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP). Her office is in Silicon Valley.
Clinician Author Podcaster
Lisa authored Effortless Mindfulness: Genuine mental health through awakened presence a highly regarded textbook on Buddhist psychology for mental health professionals. She has been an outpatient clinician for the VA San Jose, has taught a variety of Mindfulness-based Interventions, and is an AAMFT Clinical Fellow. Lisa is a Buddhist teacher and has been a yogic and Buddhist meditation practitioner for over four decades. She is the creator of the Groundless Ground Podcast
Internationally exhibited artist
From 1982-2006, Lisa produced and exhibited provocative artwork focusing on social, political and spiritual themes. In January 2000, Lisa created and implemented a music therapy project in Kosovo for CRS. That experience led her to pursue a Masters in Counseling Psychology. View her artist website.
Current Session Fees
50-minute session $225.00
80-minute session $330.00
Lisa is an out-of-network provider for all health insurance plans
HEALING PARTNERS
Polyvagal Theory and Somatic Experiencing®
PVT clinical research SE clinical research
- Sustainable trauma resolution requires bottom-up and top-down interventions. Polyvagal Theory (PVT) explains how the autonomic nervous system (ANS), vagus nerve complex, and systemic well-being are linked.
- The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is the neurobiological regulator of the mind-body system. It regulates internal functioning as the ANS continually assesses interpersonal and environmental safety and threat. This ability is known as neuroception and it shapes our reality by determining moment-to-moment how we perceive ourselves, our world, and whether we act responsively or reactively.
- Traumatic experiences (depending upon type, severity, and constancy) can have short-term or long-term effects on autonomic nervous system (ANS) and vagal function. This often looks like chronic bouts of depressive collapse and/or chronic high anxiety or rage. Current mental health models view depression and anxiety as a largely cognitive/affective problem. ANS dysregulation is wholly negated.
- Somatic Experiencing (SE™) is the only therapeutic model that focuses on resolving trauma-induced ANS hyperarousal and hypoarousal swings by restoring capacity for embodied presencing, mental clarity and emotional responsivity.

EXPERIENTIAL OUTCOMES
A few patient reports from my academic publications
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BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY MEDIA
Integrative Psychotherapy Blog

Kind Recognition
I can’t remember a Winter season in Silicon Valley with such sustained cold. 2/22 usually means Spring-like conditions; white plum blossoms dropping and pink cherry blossoms shyly peeking out. Yet, today plum blossoms cling tightly to branches and nary a pink flower can be found. I want warmth but my weather app shows only rain and cold for the next 10 days...
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Year of the Water Rabbit
Weeks of rain have come to an end and raging waters now occupy a once dried-out creek. The speed and power of the water invigorates my morning racewalks and I find myself wishing it will never abate. And such is the mental suffering of clinging to permanence where there is none; especially here in typically ever-sunny Silicon Valley...
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New Year's Reflections
Slowing down took a few days. My psychobiological system had been going non-stop with no time off for almost three years; ever since COVID shut down Silicon Valley on March 15, 2020. I and my organism forgot what time off felt like...
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Lisa Dale Miller LMFT, LPCC, SEP
Phone: 408.357.3209
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Silicon Valley Office
960 Saratoga Ave., Suite 110
San Jose, CA 95129
I look forward to speaking with you!