JENNIFER A. MILLER, PSY.D.

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Trauma-focused psychotherapy and mindfulness-based stress reduction near Lake Murray in La Mesa are the dual clinical pillars of Jennifer A. Miller, PsyD, a licensed clinical psychologist (PSY17908) operating the Mindsmith practice from Lake Park Way. Pediatric anxiety and trauma cases draw on clinical methodology developed during training at Rady Children's Hospital's Chadwick Center for Children and Families, and young patients with somatic dysregulation benefit from parallel nervous-system co-regulation through movement programs at If I Was A Bird Yoga in La Mesa. Doctoral training at Alliant International University's California School of Professional Psychology and a developmental psychology degree from UC Santa Barbara underpin the practice's dual clinical tracks: trauma-informed psychotherapy for adults and specialized play-based interventions for children. The MBSR teaching credential includes facilitation of over 30 eight-week mindfulness courses at UC San Diego's Center for Mindfulness, Zeidan Pain and Health Lab, and Psychedelic Research and Health Institute, with additional qualifications in Mindful Self-Compassion and Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention, and stress-related bruxism in the trauma patient population connects the practice's clinical work to craniofacial screening referrals at Allison Avenue Dental. The practice's highest-complexity cases layer MBSR-based interoceptive awareness training with trauma-focused psychodynamic processing for treatment-resistant PTSD, requiring concurrent management of dissociative symptoms during mindfulness exercises and calibrated titration of exposure-based interventions across extended treatment arcs.