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Dr. Miller has been a student of Bowen Theory at the Georgetown Family Center in Washington, D.C. since 1979.  She grew up around the world as an “Army Brat,” oldest of three sisters.  Her mother grew up outside of Philadelphia & was a kindergarten teacher.  A wife & mother of three daughters, she devoted her life to family & to being an international hostess to diplomats & military personnel.  Her father, a Holocaust survivor, was an internist/hematologist & hospital administrator in the Army Medical Corps.  Sally is married to an internist & has a daughter & a son.

At 23, Sally Miller was the youngest person to be executive director of The Women’s Home, the 1st residential facility for indigent women in the city of Houston & turned it into a Home of Rehabilitation, meeting the needs of the whole person.   She was Supervisor of Counseling at the Giessen Army Counseling Center for drugs, alcohol, & family issues, in Germany.  Other experiences included work in pediatrics, foster care, adoption, & residential care.  She was Asst. Chief  of Social Work, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic, Texas Children’s Hospital, Director of Professional Services, Jewish Family Service, & has been in Private Practice for over 30 years.

She has made presentations internationally on marriage & marital therapy, sex & sexuality, & the importance of theory & ethics in clinical practice.  She served as practicum supervisor at the University of Houston College of Social Work, & Adjunct Clinical Asst. Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine. A charter member of AFTA (American Family Therapy Academy), Dr. Miller started an interest group on:  “Bowen:  The Man & The Theory” to help educate people about one of the founders & the first president of the organization.

As a volunteer, Sally has participated in & taken leadership roles in professional & civic organizations.  At her children’s schools, she was President of the Parents Association, fundraiser, & playwright & producer of a senior class parents skit.  She is past president of her Civic Organization & of the Baylor Women’s Faculty Club, past Board member, docent, & committee member  of Holocaust Museum Houston, and currently is a Board member of the Czech Cultural Museum.  She is founder of the Headmaster Lecture Series at Awty International School.  Also, she is active with the Center for the Study of Natural Systems & the Family & the Bowen Center, Washington, D.C.  Currently, Sally is Director of the Institute for Family, Ethics, & Societal Issues she organized and co-sponsored “Variations in Response to Catastrophe:  Emotional Cutoff & Holocaust Survivors.”  There will be other programs in the future.  She is presently working on a book about Bowen Theory.