Flora Miller BS, MA Candidate

My understanding of spirituality and religious trauma is informed by both my clinical training and personal experience growing up in a high control religious community. I understand how deeply faith can shape identity, belonging, relationships, and the way we understand ourselves. I work with clients who are questioning, deconstructing, grieving, or rebuilding their beliefs, with respect for whatever relationship with spirituality feels right for them.

I have spent years working with families where love, loyalty, conflict, and belonging can all exist at the same time. That includes blended families, stepparents, foster and adoptive families, and families trying to reconnect after hurt or separation. I pay attention to the roles people get pulled into, the unspoken expectations underneath conflict, and the ways each person may be protecting something important. From there, we can look at what needs repair and what may need to change.

My experience with foster and adoptive families has given me a deep respect for how layered adoption can be. I work with parents who are preparing for adoption, adjusting expectations, building attachment, or trying to understand what their child may need from them. I also work with children and adoptees making sense of identity, belonging, loyalty, loss, and connection. There is room for adoption to be meaningful, complicated, painful, hopeful, or all of those at once.

Attachment Theory helps me understand how our earliest relationships can shape the way we seek connection, respond to conflict, protect ourselves, and make sense of closeness. I use this lens to help clients notice the patterns that show up in relationships, understand where those patterns may have come from, and explore new ways of connecting that feel safer, more honest, and more aligned with what they want now.

Family Systems fits the way I understand relationships and change. I look at how people are shaped by the families, roles, patterns, and relationships around them rather than viewing problems in isolation. I use this lens to help clients notice recurring dynamics, understand how each person affects the larger system, and explore what can shift when one part of the pattern begins to change.

Narrative Therapy fits the way I naturally approach counseling. I pay attention to the stories people have learned about themselves, the roles they have been expected to carry, and the meaning they have made from difficult experiences. I use this approach to help clients question what no longer fits, notice strengths that may have been overlooked, and create room for a story that feels more true to who they are becoming.

Narrative Therapy fits the way I naturally approach counseling. I pay attention to the stories people have learned about themselves, the roles they have been expected to carry, and the meaning they have made from difficult experiences. I use this approach to help clients question what no longer fits, notice strengths that may have been overlooked, and create room for a story that feels more true to who they are becoming.

Family Systems fits the way I understand relationships and change. I look at how people are shaped by the families, roles, patterns, and relationships around them rather than viewing problems in isolation. I use this lens to help clients notice recurring dynamics, understand how each person affects the larger system, and explore what can shift when one part of the pattern begins to change.