Eating Disorders, DBT and EMDR with Carol Miles, MSW, LCSW

Whole Body Mental Health Radio

Carol Miles MSW, LCSW is a clinical social worker specializing in individual and family psychotherapy, and maintains a private practice in Covington and New Orleans, LA. With over 30 years experience as a clinician, and a graduate of LSU School of Social Work specializing in clinical social work, she is currently serving as private practitioner working with a broad spectrum of clients. Among her areas of expertise are working with clients who have eating disorders and trauma. Carol often has presented at state wide conferences and to general audiences on topics ranging from eating disorders, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills , Training (DBT Skills), assertiveness, Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EDMR) and developing a private practice. Carol is a certified EMDR therapist, an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and EMDRIA Approved Basic Trainer. She also is also an adjunct professor at the Tulane School of Social Work, teaching cinical social work to the next generation of social workers. Carol is a practical, interactive, solution-focused therapist. Her treatment approach is to provide support and practical feedback to help clients resolve current problems and long-standing patterns. She incorporates a blend of conventional and alternative approaches, drawing upon a variety of styles and techniques to incorporate what will be most helpful for each client. She offers a DBT Skills Group by semester, working with a variety of diagnoses and problems. With sensitivity and compassion, she works with each client to help them build on their strengths to identify and achieve life goals. Often the past can effect the present and her expertise in EMDR Therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) helps the client to achieve a new adaptive way of feeling, acting and being in his or her world today. As the co-coordinator of the EMDRIA Regional Meetings in Southeast Louisiana, she has helped to bring a higher level of expertise to the region in dealing with trauma. Carol Miles and Associates also works with national EMDR advanced trainers to come to Louisiana to present on intense work with anger, dissociation, attachment issues and other mental health concerns to develop the skills of the therapists in our communities in this region. As a Basic Trainer of EMDR Therapy, Carol works with Tulane University School of Social Work in the Center for Life Long Learning to teach therapists about this exciting efficient and effective type of psychotherapy.