LCSW, Substance Abuse Counseling, Experience with Soldiers since Viet

Judith Miller, LCSW

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• Counsel a variety of clientele with various presenting problems ranging from ages three-years-old to the

elderly.

• Diagnose, evaluate, communicate and make referrals to other staff members and to other community

resources.

• Facilitate counseling sessions with individuals, couples, families, and families of divorce. Conduct

diverse types and styles of counseling groups (both open-ended and closed on varied topics).

• Developed and Co-Founded Cooperative Parenting Solutions - a specialized program assisting parents in

finding co-parenting solutions.

• Expert witness for family court issues.

• Familiar with the new Affordable Health Care Act and other insurance policies such as Medicare and/or

Medicaid, PPO’s, HMO’s, and private insurance companies.

• Trained in standard software programs such as: Microsoft Suite and social media (LinkedIn, Face Book,

Twitter, and Pinterest).

Work Experience

Judith Miller Counseling Center (Houston, TX) 1986 to Present

• A private practice specializing in individual, group, couples, and families (ranging from ages three-

years-old to the elderly). Experience working with adoptions and foster care families.

• Specializing in marital/divorce counseling, forensic work, and mental health evaluations including:

immigration, child custody, substance abuse, and high conflict divorces. Given numerous speeches

on these topics.

• Experience in working with substance abusers and other addictions; anxiety/depression; phobias;

CBT; dual diagnoses with major mental illnesses; counseling victims with sexual, physical/assault,

and emotional abuse; adult children of alcoholics and other dysfunctional families; infidelity;

parenting issues; counseling victims of Post-traumatic Stress Disorders (P.T.S.D.) along with their

families; and other traumas. Also help clients making other major decisions and transitions in their

lives.

• Contract work with various home health-care agencies and medical social work both in-patient and

out-patient, plus provided case management with various diagnoses.

Cooperative Parenting Solutions (Houston, TX) 1997 to Present

• Developed and Co-Founded this program with Sondra Kaplan, LCSW. A Co-Parenting Program for

Collaborative and High Conflict Divorces serving parents, children and other participants involved

in the family system of divorce.

• Established a program that interfaced between the court system, families, the legal system, as well as

the community to serve as an educational means to help families going through the many transitions

of divorce.

• Served as Child Psychotherapist Specialist.

• Formulated a program helping children and teenagers to a have their own opinion or voice.

Education

• University of Houston (Houston, TX) Bachelors of Arts in Psychology

1981

• University of Houston (Houston, TX) Masters of Social Work

1983

• Ericksonian Hypnosis Training (Houston, TX) 1993

• University of Houston Certificate in Substance Abuse (Houston, TX) 1976

Professional Organizations

• National Association of Social Workers

• Association of Families of Conciliatory Courts

• Imago Therapist Organizations

• Member of the Ft. Bend Collaborative Professionals

• Affiliated Member of the Greater Houston Collaborative Family Lawyers Assn.

• Greater Houston National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

Social Work Related Speeches

• A Separate Voice of Their Own during The Difficult Transition of Separation and Divorce

(2013)

• Not Home For the Holidays: A Presentation and Role Playing on How to help divorced families

cope with the holidays (2010)

• Dealing with Difficult Families Going Through Divorce (1999-Presemt)

• Advanced Training for Parenting Coordinators and Legal Professionals (2006-2007)

Social Work Volunteer Work

• Board Member of the Greater Houston National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

• (Participate on the following committees: Chair of the Collaboration, Education, Advocacy, and

Veterans)

• Volunteer with Veterans Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Greater Houston

Mental Health Association

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