About Dr. Miller

I completed my Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Duquesne University in 2007, my residency/doctoral internship at SUNY Stony Brook, and my postdoctoral work at Syracuse University.  

The Ph.D. in clinical psychology is the most advanced degree of academic and practical training in psychological treatment, assessment, and research.  It includes several years of graduate level coursework, hundreds of hours of practical experience before graduation, a full-time residency ("internship") at the end of the Ph.D., and a dissertation (major research project) judged to add new knowledge to the field of psychology. The New York State clinical psychology license requires an additional year of postdoctoral experience and supervision, and successful completion of the national Examination for the Professional Practice of Psychology.  

I am Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University. For many years, I was a core faculty member and then director of the Residency/Doctoral Internship in clinical psychology at Upstate. In 2025, I transitioned from that role to return to my research and started the CP3 Lab. In 2022 I founded, and I continue to direct, The Center for Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychiatry (CP3). I have been teaching at the university level since 2002. I taught grades 7-12 from 1997-2000.

I earned my undergraduate degree in philosophy from Bard College, where I read 19th and early 20th century continental philosophy (especially the work of Kierkegaard, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger).  My doctoral work in Clinical Psychology at Duquesne allowed me to continue studying philosophy through psychology, and vice versa.