Lisa Miller

Dr. Lisa Miller, PhD, is the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and The Awakened Brain. Dr. Miller is a professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Columbia University where she founded the Spirituality Mind Body Institute, the first Ivy League graduate program and research institute in spirituality and psychology, and has held over a decade of joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry Columbia University Medical School.

Her innovative research has been published in more than two hundred peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Cerebral Cortex, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and the Journal of the American Academy of child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Miller is Editor of the Oxford University Press Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality (Eds 1 and 2), Founding Co-Ediotr-in-Chief of the APA journal Spirituality in Clinical Practice, an elected Fellow of The American Psychological Association (APA) and two-time President of the APA Society for Psychology and Spirituality.

A graduate of Yale University and University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her doctorate under the founder of positive psychology, Martin Seligmen, she has served as Principle Investigator on multiple grand funded research studies. Dr. Miller speaks and consults around The Awakened Brain and The Spiritual Child for the US Military, businesses, personal development, faith based organizations, schools and universities, and for mental health and wellness initiatives. Dr. Miller contributes as a leading expert on the science of human spirituality and spiritual health to podcasts and traditional media.