About.

Arianne Miller, Ph.D., is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Private Practice in Washington, DC. Her areas of expertise include self-care, stress management, depression, anxiety, life and career transitions, eating issues, managing cancer from diagnosis through recovery and working with people who identify as people of color, LGBQ+, Transgender and Nonbinary. She has a special interest in working with Academics, people experiencing infertility/using assistive reproductive methods to become pregnant and those going through major health challenges.

Before opening her private practice she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology and the Community-Based Block program, a Multicultural Counseling and Social Justice Education Master’s of Science program. As a professor, she supervised and trained Master’s level therapists-in-training to become Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors (LPCCs). Prior to this she was an an adjunct professor at Harvard Medical School, the University of California at San Diego and Bastyr University, a Natropathic Medical College. She also worked as a staff psychologist at Fenway Health, a multidisciplinary community health and research center devoted to serving LGBTQ+ communities in the greater New England area. She is currently licensed to practice in Washington, D.C. (DMV area), California and 42 participating PSYPACT States.

Dr. Miller’s published scholarship focuses on understanding and clarifying the process of self-care for students, clinicians, and the general public, Her current projects are focused on developing conceptual and culturally inclusive models of self-care, examining student and faculty perspectives on practicing self-care; and investigating trans-disciplinary approaches to improving self-care among patients and the public.

Publications

Miller, A. E., & Tran, N. (2024). Your self-care is made of capitalism: A decolonial approach to self and community care. In L. Comas-Díaz, H. Y. Adames, & N. Y. Chavez-Dueñas (Eds.), Decolonial psychology: Toward anticolonial theories, research, training, and practice (pp. 389–408). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000376-017

Miller, A. E. (2022). Self-care as a competency benchmark: Creating a culture of shared responsibility. Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 16(4), 333–340. https://doi.org/10.1037/tep0000386

Tran, N., Yabes, K., Miller, A. E. (2021). Case and Commentary: How should clinicians help patients navigate “Model Minority” demands? AMA Journal of Ethics, 23(6): E456-464. https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2021.456

Miller, A. E. (2019). When your graduation gift is cancer: The making of a psychotherapist. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 29(2), 175–187. https://doi.org/10.1037/int0000141

Miller, A.E., Green, T. & Lambros, K. (2019). Foster parent self-care: A conceptual model. Children and Youth Services Review, 99, 107-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.01.014

Miller, A.E. (2018). Searching for Gaydar: Blind spots in the study of sexual orientation perception. Psychology and Sexuality, 9, 188-203. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2018.1468353

Miller, A.E. & Josephs, L.J. (2009). Whiteness as pathological narcissism. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 45, 93-119. https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2009.10745989