Caitlin Ruby Miller (she/her)

I enjoy working with couples of all kinds to improve communication, see one another more clearly, understand their sexual needs, express themselves emotionally and sexually, find shared values, stop before outbursts, reflect each other's thoughts and emotions, and more. The challenge of couples therapy is really fun for me, and I believe that couples therapy can create powerful change in the lives of each individual as well as the couple.

I think of highly sensitive people as people who are gifted, talented, intelligent, aware, and intuitive. I have lived experience as a highly sensitive person. I work with clients on utilizing and growing the incredible strengths of being a highly sensitive person. At the same time, I work with clients on coping with the various manifestations of sensory overload. Sensitivity is a double-edged sword, and I work with clients on feeling empowered in their identity.

I am being trained in the Gottman Method to assist couples in developing friendship, conflict management, and creation of shared meaning. I help couples transform negative ways they communicate with positive interactions to help heal past resentments. The Gottman Method includes, "interventions designed to increase closeness and intimacy are used to improve friendship, deepen emotional connection, and create changes which enhances the couples shared goals. Relapse prevention is also addressed."

I am being trained in the Gottman Method to assist couples in developing friendship, conflict management, and creation of shared meaning. I help couples transform negative ways they communicate with positive interactions to help heal past resentments. The Gottman Method includes, "interventions designed to increase closeness and intimacy are used to improve friendship, deepen emotional connection, and create changes which enhances the couples shared goals."

I am being trained in the Gottman Method to assist couples in developing friendship, conflict management, and creation of shared meaning. I help couples transform negative ways they communicate with positive interactions to help heal past resentments. The Gottman Method includes, "interventions designed to increase closeness and intimacy are used to improve friendship, deepen emotional connection, and create changes which enhances the couples shared goals."

Although I am not a trained Jungian Analyst, I am inspired by the works of Jung in his ability to find what I would call the true self. I think that honoring the subtle, mysterious aspects of consciousness can create a deep and meaningful bond between the clinician and client. I can explore the way your life experiences have paved identity formation. I work with clients to fill out the nuances of their life story, and explore themselves in unique ways they have not explored thus far.

I am being trained in the Gottman Method to assist couples in developing friendship, conflict management, and creation of shared meaning. I help couples transform negative ways they communicate with positive interactions to help heal past resentments. The Gottman Method includes, "interventions designed to increase closeness and intimacy are used to improve friendship, deepen emotional connection, and create changes which enhances the couples shared goals."

I believe Eclectic Therapy can be one of the greatest tools in the therapy relationship. Utilizing interventions from both behavioral therapy (more skills-based, immediate, observable solutions) and insight-oriented therapy (asking questions of identity, figuring out who you are, exploring self-narratives), I help clients improve their lives on a day-to-day basis as well as gaining a sense of wholeness underneath it all. I pull from many schools of therapy to tailor my eclectic approach.

I work with many neurodivergent clients to help empower them to live a life that accommodates them and helps them thrive. I have lived experience as a neurodivergent person, so I am able to easily connect and relate. Nearly all the clients I work with identify on the ND spectrum, including ASD, AuDHD, and ADHD. I am invigorated by my work with my fantastic ND clients. They appreciate the attention I pay to their language and the ways in which they conceptualize themselves.

My clients oftentimes experience anxiety, in combination with the other changes they would like to make. I treat anxiety as a complex web of a client's environment, behavior, feelings, emotions, thoughts, identities, physical movement, eating, medication management, passions, hobbies, creativity, sleep, drug usage, and spirituality. I work with clients on designing interventions to test and see how they affect their anxiety. It is wonderful to watch anxiety improve in client's lives.

Many of my clients are attracted to exploring philosophical themes in their lives, whether that is the philosophical narratives that inform their day-to-day lives, relationships, or worldview. I find that therapy can feel like applied philosophy, by exploring the values we hold about how the world works, why we do what we do, and what we truly desire. It is incredible how sometimes a challenging exploration of our personal philosophy can create deep and lasting changes in how we navigate life.

The emotional tone and quality of our closest relationships affects everything in our life. It can change the way we experience physical pain, energy, hope, pleasure, play, and much more. I approach helping improve relationships with helping clients sort out their thoughts and feelings about their relationships and get clear about what they want and their goals. Then we work on interventions: communicating our wants, tolerating conflict, setting boundaries, sparking joy, and building trust.