Eric M. Miller, PhD 555 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA 94301

"I have been seeing Dr. Miller for a few months now and I have had a great experience so far. He has been working with me to set goals and guide me in working towards them. He's been very helpful in giving advice, without thrusting his opinions. I have benefitted a lot from his counselling so far."

"I have thought long and hard about whether to leave a public review of a service as individualized as psychotherapy but I had bad enough of an experience with this provider that I felt the urge to forewarn prospective clients. Dr. Miller's focus on "evidence-based" interventions was so strong that it blinded him to common sense. He said that he intentionally ignored some of the things I told him because my reported experience did not match the statistics he knew. He tried to fit me into one of his few narrowly-defined boxes and grew frustrated when I rejected all of his labels. He offered a small set of interventions; when none of those worked for me, he went through the same list several times again; when they still didn't work, he decided that I was not a good candidate for psychotherapy at all. At that point he should have informed me about other approaches to therapy and offered me a referral. Instead, he essentially told me that I was a hopeless case and that the best I could hope for was to have my anxiety controlled with medication for the rest of my life. I felt misunderstood enough that I decided to do my own review of the literature. Turns out that there is ample literature that supports my experiece, if you look in the right places. I wish that this provider kept an open mind beyond the limited scope of the scientific literature and his limited knowledge thereof."

"I saw Dr Miller two years ago at the Stanford student counseling center. We did not last very long. In the intake, he asked me question after question about my (rather traumatic) childhood. Me, wanting to be a good client, answered them as well as I could. He did not seem to notice that I was completely overwhelmed with the whole situation. I was dissociated for most of the session (I couldn't feel or move most of my body; my vision was gone; large chunks of memory are missing) and I was completely retraumatized afterwards. For weeks I was hypervigilant and barely slept. This one session triggered a downwards spiral that ended with many failed classes and an involuntary hospitalization a year afterwards. I expressed my acute distress to him the following week. His response? I seem to be having problems with close relationships; and as I am getting closer to him (lol), this new relationship was understandably causing me a lot of anxiety. But this anxiety should all go away once I stop seeing him. Well, he was wrong. I didn't go back to "normal." And the negative experience with him made it impossible for me to ask for help from other sources."