PhD, LCSW-ACSW-ACP, LMFT
The practice of Dr. Sally Eisen Miller is inclusive and diverse. In over 40 years of practice, her focus is the person rather than the symptom, from a systemic framework. Whether seeing youth, young adults, families, couples, or individuals, she understands that all are part of a family system influenced by generations of the past. Her post graduate work with Dr.Murray Bowen, pioneer in the field of the family, influences how she thinks and how she practices.
She has worked with homeless women as Director of the Women’s Home, transforming the place from a transitional to a home of rehabilitation. Among her other experiences are working at the VA Hospital and working as Director of Counseling in the US Army Drug & Alcohol Program. At DePelchin Children’s Home, Dr. Miller worked in the foster care & adoption program. She was on the faculty of Baylor College of Medicine as the Assistant Chief of Social Work, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Texas Children’s Hospital. She also served as Director of Professional Services at Jewish Family Service. Besides a private practice, Dr. Miller supervises and teaches social work and marriage & family therapy interns. She conducts workshops and consults with organizations as well as serving on several community boards and committees where she has been chair and president.
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION:
- Texas Woman’s University
Ph.D. – Family Science
Dissertation: Personal well-being and work efficacy from a 3-generation perspective
- Georgetown Family Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry
3 Year Post Graduate Program
Our Lady of the Lake University
MSW – Individual, Family, and Organization Functioning – Child Guidance Clinic; Houston VAH
- Wesleyan College
BA – Sociology, Psychology, and Political Science – Focus: How people and institutions function 
Licensed:
- LCSW
- LMFT
Organizations:
- HGFTC
- AFTA
- ANSW
- AAMFT
- TAMFT
- HAMFT
Publications
Miller, S.E
Contributor to various professional articles to HAMFT Newsletter (2011-2012)
Miller, S.E.
“Houston’s Influence on AFTA,” AFTA Monograph Series, (Winter 2009)
Miller, S.E.
“A Question of Ethics: Bowen Natural Systems Theory Misunderstood & Distorted, Elaborated,” Family Systems Forum, 4:1 (2006)
Miller, S.E.
“Reflections: The Influence of Murray Bowen in the Houston Family Therapy Community,” Family Systems Forum, 2:3 (2000)
Miller, S.E.
“A Question of Ethics: Bowen Natural Systems Theory Misunderstood & Distorted,” Family Systems Forum, 1:2 (1999)
Miller, S.E.
“Bowen & Bowen Theory,” American Family Therapy Academy Newsletter, 48:46-47, 1992
Miller, S.E.
The Covenant Cookbook (including historical musings), Cookbook Publishers, & Matthews, K. (1980)
