LIsa Dale Miller, LMFT, LPCC, SEP
Lisa Dale Miller is a private practice psychotherapist specializing in mindfulness psychotherapy and Somatic Experiencing therapy for the treatment of mood disorders, trauma, addiction, chronic pain, and relationship distress. She is the author of a highly regarded textbook on Buddhist psychology for mental health professionals. Training clinicians in the practical application of Buddhist psychology is her greatest joy. She has been a yogic and Buddhist meditation practitioner for four decades.
Biography
Lisa Dale Miller is a private practice psychotherapist specializing in mindfulness psychotherapy and Somatic Experiencing therapy for the treatment of mood disorders, trauma, addiction, emotion dysregulation, chronic pain, and relationship distress. She is the author of a highly regarded textbook on Buddhist psychology for mental health professionals, Effortless Mindfulness: Genuine mental health through awakened presence. Lisa is also an outpatient clinician for the Veterans Administration San Jose and a teacher of Mindfulness-based Relapse Prevention (MBRP) for addiction, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for depression relapse prevention, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Training clinicians in the practical application of Buddhist psychology is her greatest joy. She has been a yogic and Buddhist meditation practitioner for four decades.Education
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Masters in Counseling Psychology, Depth Psychology
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Buddhist psychology
Mindfulness Interventions
Buddhist philosophy
Contemplative neuroscience
Websites
Books
Articles
The Ultimate Rx: Cutting through the delusion of self-cherishing
Published: Jan 06, 2017 by Handbook of Mindfulness: Society, Culture and Context
Authors: Lisa Dale Miller
Subjects:
Health and Social Care, Asian Studies, Social Psychology
This chapter explicates Western and Buddhist psychological models of self, Buddhist theories of not-self and conventional and ultimate self-cherishing, and outlines a somatopsychotherapeutic clinical approach for helping individuals struggling with depressive, anxious, trauma-related symptoms and addictions, to recognize self-cherishing mentation and lessen its deleterious effects.
The Contributions of Mindfulness Practice in a Secular Profession
Published: Apr 06, 2015 by American Psychological Association PsycCRITIQUES
Authors: Melvin E. Miller , Melissa Sivvy
Subjects:
Psychological Science, Health and Social Care, Asian Studies
A rave review of "Effortless Mindfulness: Genuine Mental Health Through Awakened Presence" by Lisa Dale Miller New York, NY: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. 252 pp
News
Shrinkrap Radio interviews Lisa Dale Miller
By: LIsa Dale Miller, LMFT, LPCC, SEP
Subjects: Health and Social Care, Mental Health, Other, Psychological Science
A wonderful conversation on the practical application of Buddhist psychology.
Videos
Published: Jul 01, 2015
On June 14 authors David McMahan, Gary Gach, Jack Petranker and Lisa Dale Miller presented at the Bay Area Book Festival on the topic, “Beyond Mindfulness”and the growing concern that a focus on “non-judgmental present awareness” can be used to support the status quo — a way to make things better instead of making things different.
Published: Mar 11, 2015
In this short video on Buddhist psychology-inspired inquiry skills, I recount a dialogue with a patient that illustrates how to generate embodied presence and empowered choice-making by working directly with inherently false mental constructions about the future.
Published: Jun 22, 2015
On June 7, 2015, a select group of presenters from the Mindfulness and Compassion Conference at SFSU convened to discuss Buddhism and Modernity. Panel 2 focused on the role for the transcendent dimensions of Buddhist practice and teachings in a disenchanted world. I chose to speak on Transcendent wisdom and psychotherapy. My talk begins at 8:22 in the video time sequence.
Published: Jun 22, 2015
David Vago, PhD and Lisa Dale Miller, LMFT, LPCC, SEP recently recorded two rich and informative conversations focused on translating the Buddhist concept of “enlightenment” into modern clinical terms. David is currently involved in cutting edge neurobiological research on the awakened mind states that arise during various meditative practices.
Published: Jun 22, 2015
This first of Part 2's three videos focuses on S-ART, David's neurobiological framework for describing the positive effects of meditation on self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence. Covered topics include: Perception and distorted self-perception; clarity and insight; reducing mental and emotional suffering.
Published: Jun 22, 2015
This second of Part 2's three videos focuses on: Theravada, Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna notions of awakening; secular mental training; different interventions for different psyches; selflessness/emptiness in psychotherapy; translating the dharma into neuropsychological terms, vedanā (craving and aversion); decentering.
Published: Jun 22, 2015
This final Part 2 video focuses on: embodied cognition; aggregates and seeds of habit mind; other-centeredness and not-self; non-referential compassion; empathy fatigue; refuting self-compassion; clinical Tonglen practice; neurobiological evidence for not-self states; developmental model of awakening; dynamic responsiveness; neurotherapeutics.