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Treatment is different with each person. At the heart of my therapeutic approach is careful, thoughtful and non-judgmental listening. It is important that you feel understood and comfortable that we can work together collaboratively. Beginning therapy, people hope to find relief, feel ambivalent, are unsure about their wants and fear the unknown. I view psychotherapy as a two-person process. We will focus on understanding your feelings, struggles and the roots of repetitive life patterns and relationships. This perspective will help you to develop individualized ways of decreasing suffering, promoting insight, improving self-esteem and regaining self-control.
Regarding Insurance: Doctor Miller does not accept Health Insurance, although he will provide you with a statement at the end of the month which can be submitted to your PPO for reimbursement as per your plan.
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Dr. Miller, Boca Raton Board Certified Psychologist & Psychoanalyst has gained valuable clinical experience serving adult patients in many outstanding medical facilities and hospitals which he now applies to his private practice. As an intuitive professional psychologist, he recognizes that each person has unique emotional needs and struggles which vary with regard to intensity and duration. Regardless of whether the problem is long standing or brief, Dr. Miller Boca Raton Psychologist actively engages his patients to find new ways to understand, cope and resolve their struggles following the principles of psychoanalytic therapy.
Psychoanalytic individual therapy relieves emotional distress and promotes personal growth through insight and self understanding. My aim is to help patients examine their thoughts and feelings in a supportive, safe environment so that they can come to understand repetitive patterns of experience. Treatment focuses on helping patients understand how their problems developed, connecting past to current difficulties. As emotional insight improves, self esteem deepens allowing for healthier conscious choices. Understanding can help a person to develop better coping skills, alleviate distress, regain self control and live more satisfying fulfilling lives. Individual therapy is not only helpful in understanding oneself, but in improving relationships with other people as well. It is highly effective in treating depression and depressive symptoms, anxiety, fears, grief, anger, guilt, phobias, work stress and healing from trauma. Self reflection is an important part of therapy. Dr. Miller will encourage you to speak as openly as possible about yourself and will work with you to develop insight, understanding and solutions. Active collaboration is a primary component to treatment. Respect and sensitivity are integral as we together come to understand the ways in which your current and past difficulties have effected you over time so you will be better able to make healthier life choices in the future.
Areas of expertise include:
- Depression & Sadness
- Anxiety, Stress & Panic Attacks
- Couples Therapy (Marriage, Relationship Counseling)
- Personality Disorders including Narcissistic, Borderline, & Schizoid
- Anger
- Attachment Difficulties
- Sexuality
- Relationship, Intimacy Issues & Commitment Difficulties
- Self Esteem Issues
- Mistrust
- Child & Adult Emotional Trauma & Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Physical & Sexual Abuse
- Mid-life Crises
- Eating Disorders
- Obsessions & Phobias
- Divorce
- Identity Issues
- Emotional Emptiness
- Psychological Aspects of Infertility
- Insomnia
- Life Transition
- Infidelity
Dr. David Miller, Boca Raton Board Certified Psychologist and Psychoanalyst approach to couples therapy or marriage counseling is unique and comprehensive. He meets with both partners at the initial consultation and evaluates their separate concerns. Dr. Miller optimally meets with the couple together and with each person individually within the context of the couples relationship. In helping couples with their relationship issues, Dr. Miller will ask each person to look closely at themselves to better understand their own psychological makeup and to each person’s contribution to the couple’s dynamic. Every relationship consists of two individuals combining their own emotional patterns to create a unique relational matrix. In couple’s therapy or marriage counseling, there must be an ongoing exploration of each person’s individual psychology as well as the special manner in which each person relates or does not within the couple relationship. In a sense, couple’s therapy or marriage counseling is a combination of both people undergoing individual therapy as well as examining how the relationship produces its own unique characteristics. Integral aspects of treatment include, identifying the sources of conflict and dissatisfaction, helping each person understand their own needs and finding healthy ways to language them. The four primary and necessary components to a meaningful and healthy relationship (friendship, trust, intimacy & sexuality) are thoroughly explored in couples therapy.
While employing a similar treatment approach to his adult patients, Dr. David Miller, Board Certified Boca Raton Psychologist and Psychoanalyst, believes that early intervention with children and adolescents is essential for preventing future problems. The professional relationship that is co-created between doctor and patient is vital. It is important that the psychologist be professional, intelligent, well trained, trustworthy, compassionate and a positive role model who can guide your child through difficult life transitions. This allows for maximal emotional growth and healing. Dr. Miller may utilize drawing techniques and role-playing to determine the cause of symptoms because young children sometimes have difficulty with self expression. Upon initial consultation, Dr. Miller meets with parent(s) for collaboration of a mutually agreeable course of treatment ensuring success. Additionally, parenting collaboration is a necessary component of treatment. Dr. Miller often consults with physicians, pediatricians and school counselors about his patients needs.
Areas of expertise include:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Anger
- Self Destructive Behaviors & Cutting
- Obsessions
- Phobias
- Self Esteem Issues
- Psychological Trauma
- Substance Abuse
- Identity Issues
- Attachment Issues
- Learning Disabilities
- Social Difficulties & Peer Pressure
- School Difficulties
- Eating Disorders
- Divorce/Step Family Related Issues
- Life transitions
Dr. David Miller, Boca Raton Board Certified Psychologist and Psychoanalyst, practices psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy. Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy are unique forms of intensive psychotherapy that foster personal development and liberation from unsatisfying or painful patterns of living. In pursuit of those goals, the individual in a psychoanalytically informed therapy and the therapist work together in close collaboration. They pay careful attention to the interactions of personal and interpersonal experience, of past and present, of body and mind, of fantasy and reality. It is expected that such an in-depth exploration can set in motion a process of personal transformation.
People seek psychoanalytically informed treatment for many reasons. Some want help with specific emotional problems like depression, anxiety, or stress or are seeking to come to terms with a painful or traumatic personal history. Others may feel stuck in distressing patterns that prevent them from feeling satisfied, from connecting with others, or from finding meaning in their lives. Many people simply desire a deeper self-understanding or greater creativity in their personal lives.
The process of psychoanalysis depends on the establishment of a safe, confidential, and collaborative therapeutic relationship. The frequency of sessions in a psychoanalytically informed treatment typically ranges from two to four times a week. Frequent sessions allow the patient’s dilemmas to come to life in the intricacies of the psychoanalytic relationship.
Patient and therapist work together to understand the meaning of the patient’s emotional reactions, thoughts, memories, fantasies, dreams, images, and sensations in an effort to alleviate personal suffering and to expand the capacity for work, love, and creativity.
Many individuals find that the use of an analytic couch allows them to speak more freely about their most personal concerns, and to access unconscious experience. For others, the experience of a face-to-face dialogue seems essential to the unfolding of the therapeutic process.
The psychoanalytic process weaves a complex tapestry in which therapist and patient can explore the rich and intricate texture of human relationship. This process can be expected to unfold over a considerable period of time. A decision to enter psychoanalytically informed treatment represents a mutual agreement between patient and therapist. Decisions about the frequency of sessions needed to sustain the process are reached jointly.
Psychoanalysis offers a unique and comprehensive method of thinking and working therapeutically. The theory and methods of psychoanalysis originated with Sigmund Freud’s pioneering explorations of the influence of unconscious processes on everyday life and on emotional difficulties.
Although it is recognized that no single theory can account for the complexities of the human mind, psychoanalytic tradition and technique are valuable resources for understanding the psychological processes of personal development and social interaction. Contemporary psychoanalysts draw on a vast body of knowledge—both within psychoanalysis and across disciplines—to understand their patients compassionately and to respond effectively to the broader communities in which they live and work.
Psychoanalysis is also engaged in dialogue with other disciplines like science, history, philosophy, gender studies, visual arts, literature, poetry, music and film. As an evolving domain in its own right, psychoanalysis continues actively to address a wide range of current issues, such as changing social structures, individual alienation, identity and diversity, political violence and emerging cultural realities. In addition, there has been a long tradition of reciprocal influence between psychoanalysis and psychological research, especially in the areas of human development, cognitive science, and social psychology.
Graduate psychoanalysts are licensed mental health professionals like, psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, or psychiatric nurses who have had extensive postgraduate training in psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic training consists of a rigorous program of several years of coursework, a personal analysis and experience providing psychoanalysis under the supervision of senior analysts. Psychoanalytic therapists are usually licensed mental health professionals who adhere to basic psychoanalytic tenets in their practice of psychotherapy with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and groups.
This information is provided by the Division of Psychoanalysis (Division 39) of the American Psychological Association (APA). The Division of Psychoanalysis represents, within the broad field of psychology, professionals who identify themselves as having a major commitment to the study, practice, and development of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. For information about the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association, please call (602) 212-0511. For further information about psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy visit our website at www.division39.org. The Division thanks the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis for their permission to reproduce some of the material presented in this brochure.
Dr. David Miller, Boca Raton Psychologist and Psychoanalyst provides Clinical Supervision for Practitioners from all disciplines, at beginning and advanced levels, in developing a Psychoanalytic practice. Dr. Miller also works with practitioners wanting to deepen their work with patients to achieve better long lasting results. His approach to Supervision integrates Classical Psychoanalytic principles with Contemporary Psychoanalytic (Relational & Intersubjective) principles paying careful attention to the transference/countertransference dyad. He aims and seeks to help Supervisees develop their own style of intervention based upon their personal character, skills and patient populations. Supervision or Consultation can be arranged in the office or via FaceTime.
Professional and Educational Profile
David Blair Miller, Psy.D., A.B.P.P. David B. Miller, Psy.D., P.A. Private Practice 5295 Town Center Road, Suite 401 Boca Raton, FL 33486 (2003 to Present)
Dr. David Blair Miller, A.B.P.P. California Office Location 269 South Beverly Drive, Suite 369 Beverly Hills, CA 90212 (2009 to Present)
Boca Raton Regional Hospital Medical Staff Psychologist #2076 (2005 to Present)
FAU College of Medicine, Affiliate Assistant Professor (2012 to 2018)
Florida Licensed Psychologist PY #6648
California Licensed Psychologist PY #22780
Diplomate, American Board of Professional Psychology
Board Certified, American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis # 8027
Association of Professional and Provincial Clinical Psychology Boards (Certificate of Professional Qualification CPQ # 4139)
Certification, Contemporary Psychoanalysis & Psychoanalytic Therapy
University of Miami School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Clinical Psychology Intern (2000- 2001) Clinical Psychology Doctoral Internship Program, Adult Mental Health, Clinical Neuropsychology & Behavioral Medicine Acute Inpatient Units and Outpatient Clinics (APA Accredited Clinical Psychology Doctoral Internship Program)
California School of Professional Psychology, Fresno
Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology (Psy.D.) (1997-2001)
Master of Arts (M.A.) (1996-1998) (APA Accredited Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program) Psychodynamic & Neuropsychology Concentration
Doctoral Dissertation: A Normative Study For The Word Association Test Among College Students (2000) Original Data Collection
California State University, Northridge
Bachelor of Arts in Child Development, Concentration Psychology (1991-1995)
CSPP Psychological Service Center, Clinical Psychology Extern, Fresno, CA (1999-2000) Clinical Rotations: Forensic and Neuropsychological Assessment Acute Inpatient Units and Intensive Psychodynamic Intervention Outpatient Clinic
Associated Center For Therapy, Clinical Psychology Extern, Fresno, CA (1998-1999) Psychotherapy and Diagnostic Neuropsychological Assessment
Fresno Unified School District, Clinical Psychology and Pediatric Neuropsychological Assessment Extern, Fresno, CA (1998)
FAU College of Medicine, Affiliate Assistant Professor, Training, Teaching and Supervising Medical Students and Medical Residents (2012 – 2018)
University of Miami School of Medicine, Voluntary Assistant Lecturer for 1st Year Medical Students (2000-2001)
California State University, Northridge, Department of Psychology – Teaching Assistant (1995)
American Psychoanalytic Association (2020 to Present)
International Psychoanalytical Association (2019 to Present)
International Association for Self Psychology (2011 to Present)
Florida Psychoanalytic Society (2001 to 2018)
Florida Psychological Association (2001 t0 2018)
National Institute for the Psychotherapies Professional (2012 to 2019)
California Psychological Association (1996 to 2000)
San Joaquin Psychological Association (1996 t0 2000)
Masterson Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (1999 to 2005)
Powell, S,. Miller, D., Capiola, R., Picciano, J., Dock, R. (2018) Don’t Give Up On Me. Shedding Light on Addiction with Daryl Strawberry. Exploration of Neurobiology, Neurochemistry, Psychoanalytic Psychology & Addiction. Published by HenschalHAUS Publishing, Inc.
Miller, D. Interview by Emily Minor (2014, November). Boca Raton Observer: A Guide to Personal Growth: Let it Go. Why forgiveness is the healthiest choice.
Miller, D. Television Interview & Appearance with Karl Mann. West Palm Beach Affiliate CBS News 12. Mental Disorder Triskaidekaphobia (Fear of Number 13). Discussion of the Origins both Religious and Mental (Anxiety, Obsessions, Compulsions & Phobias). Aired on January 1, 2013 Evening News
Miller, D. Interview by Emily Minor (2012, August). Boca Raton Magazine: A Guide to Personal Growth: Its Not All Relatives. How to survive your in-laws and other modern family debacles.
Miller, D. Interview by Emily Minor (2011, August). Boca Raton Magazine: A Guide to Personal Growth: Men Behaving Badly. Is it all in the Genes?
Miller, D. (2002, October 21). Look Before You Leap; Investigating The Veracity Of Your Client. Broward County Matrimonial Lawyers Luncheon, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Miller, D., & Shaffer, T. (2002, March 20-24). Current Normative Data For The Word Association Test. Poster session presented at the Society of Personality Assessment Midwinter Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
Miller, D., Gonzalez, E., Rivas-Vazquez, R., Blias, M., & Mendoza, R. (2002, March 20-24). The Word Association Test (WAT): A Predictor of Suicide? Poster session presented at the Society of Personality Assessment Midwinter Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
Miller, D. (2002, April 26). Narcissistic and Borderline Character Pathology: Differential Diagnosis and Evidenced Based Advanced Treatment Approaches. Citrus Health Network, Inc, Grand Rounds, Miami, FL.
Miller, D. (2001, March 30) Differential Diagnosis Disorders of the Self: A Developmental Object Relations Approach. University of Miami, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Psychology Grand Rounds, Miami, FL
Miller, D. (2001, May 18) Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the Application of Neuroscience and Neuropathology: A Developmental Object Relations Approach. University of Miami, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Psychology Grand Rounds, Miami, FL
Luethy, G.A., & Miller, D. (1995-1996 Edition). Children School Age with Tourette’s Syndrome. Adolescents as Parents.
Dr David B Miller Interviewed on Metrofocus with Darryl Strawberry about their new book Don’t Give Up on Me: Shedding Light on Addiction with Darryl Strawberry.”
MetroFocus television program features news, smart conversations, in-depth reporting, content from many partners and solution-oriented reports from the New York region. Dr Miller was interviewed with former MLB All-Star Darryl Strawberry to talk about their new book, “Don’t Give Up on Me: Shedding Light on Addiction with Darryl Strawberry.” In the book, Dr Miller and Mr Strawberry delve deeper into Mr Strawberry’s battle with addiction and behind the psychology of addiction itself.
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Dr. David B. Miller, Boca Raton Psychologist
Our office is conveniently located minutes from I-95 and the Florida Turnpike at the north west corner of Military Trail and Town Center Road in Boca Raton.
Feel welcome to contact us for directions at any time. Extra parking is available in the parking structure adjacent in the Comerica Bank building. Additionally, complimentary valet parking is available.