Kim Miller, MFT is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who uses a collaborative approach with her clients, maximizing the motivation, participation and the level of results clients experience in therapy. Kim has experience counseling individuals and couples, but specializes in the treatment of children using play therapy and sandtray therapy.
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Divorce Counseling for Children: Divorce affects 50% of married couples in the United
States. Even when divorce is the most responsible solution, it can involve deep hurt,
painful adjustments, and many stressful changes in children’s lives. Kim can help children
learn to cope and assist adult family members in learning strategies to help children
maintain emotional stability.
- Play Therapy and Sandtray Therapy: These are two valuable approaches that help clients develop coping strategies, express feelings, share experiences and resolve psychological conflicts. Play is a child’s natural way of communicating and is ideal for helping children express themselves. Sandtray therapy is a unique approach which often offers clients a new perspective as their inner world and reality in the world around them appears in images they create in the sand. It is also a way for children to put their experiences into words, images and stories. As these worlds in the sand are created by the client and witnessed by the therapist, the client often finds meaning, healing, coping strategies, and personal growth.
- Domestic Violence: Domestic violence affects one out of every four American families to some degree. Domestic violence is a crime and a traumatic family experience. Kim can assist you to find the strength and courage to halt this cycle of violence and recover from this painful life. Kim also assists in the healing process and the learning of safety skills.
- Relationship Counseling: Relationship counseling helps everyone seeking improved affiliations with co-workers, spouses, friends, family, etc. Kim strives to help clients build and maintain healthy, happy, productive relationships.
- Family Counseling: Family counseling is often the answer to rebuilding harmonious relationships within the home. Individual behaviors can affect the functioning of the family as a whole. Working with the entire family is ideal, however, individual changes can have a strong impact on creating change within the family.
- Play Therapy and Sandtray Therapy: These are two valuable approaches that help clients develop coping strategies, express feelings, share experiences and resolve psychological conflicts. Play is a child’s natural way of communicating and is ideal for helping children express themselves. Sandtray therapy is a unique approach which often offers clients a new perspective as their inner world and reality in the world around them appears in images they create in the sand. It is also a way for children to put their experiences into words, images and stories. As these worlds in the sand are created by the client and witnessed by the therapist, the client often finds meaning, healing, coping strategies, and personal growth.
