About Nicole Miller

I have had a private practice with offices in Santa Barbara, California, and Ojai, California, for over twenty years. 

I am the mother of teenagers.  

I have cared for aging parents and grieved their deaths.

I understand the emotional journey one goes through when faced with a serious medical issue, life transition, or loss, and the importance of how to advocate and negotiate for oneself in a time when it is essential. Having experienced divorce, cancer, and parenting personally through major transitions, I bring empathy, resiliency, and practical support to my work.

I use ACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. ACT supports people to identify what is most important to them and create a life in alignment with those identified values. These are some of the teachings of ACT.

• Mindfulness, the practice of being present

• Identifying what is important to you (values)

• The importance of being able to see the world from a variety of perspectives (psychological flexibility)

• Being able to accept one’s circumstances - surrender

• The practice of not believing all our thoughts and fears

• Committed action helps create change

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