Founder, Spirituality Mind Body Institute | Professor of Clinical Psychology Program, Columbia University Teachers College | Author, The Spiritual Child; The Awakened Brain

Lisa Miller, Ph.D., is the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and The Awakened Brain. She is a full professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, 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 at 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 (Editions 1 and 2), Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the APA journal Spirituality in Clinical Practice, an elected Fellow of The American Psychological Association (APA) and the 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 Martin Seligman, founder of the positive psychology movement. Dr. Lisa Miller speaks extensively for higher education, business, government and military, creative endeavors, medical, health and wellness centers, universities, and faith based initiatives.