Abigail S. Miller, PsyD, NCPsyA

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST

On Zoom Only – 1 CE

Participation is FREE

$17 Admin Fee for each CE

Registration closes November 19 at 10:00 AM EST

This lecture and DBT skills class demonstration is, at the request of our BBL group, a follow-up to Dr. Miller’s Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Psychodynamic Practice: A Therapeutic Alliance presentation in September 2025. For November, she will give a brief review of key components of DBT and the structure of a skills group. The focus will then be on Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation. Dr. Miller will explain the DBT model for describing emotions and the use of Opposite Action, a specific emotional regulation skill for changing emotional responses. She will demonstrate this process through running a mini-group demo in her presentation.

Course Objectives – Participants will be able to:

• Describe the structure and goals of a DBT Skills group.
• Experience a DBT Skills class.
• Recognize therapeutic benefits a DBT Skills group for individual psychodynamic patients.
• Learn Basics of the DBT Model for describing Emotions and the skill of “Opposite Action.”

Abigail S. Miller, PsyD, NCPsyA, is a clinical psychologist at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Manhattan and in private practice in New York City. She is a graduate of ACAP and the Ferkauf Graduatewith A School of Psychology. Dr. Miller works with patients ranging from adolescents to individuals in their 90s, and with couples.

She performed neuropsychological and psychoeducational evaluations for over 25 years with a focus on dementia, learning disabilities, attentional deficits, and traumatic brain injuries. At the VA, she works with caregivers of individuals with dementia, veterans with cognitive decline, runs psychotherapy groups including a DBT Skills Group, an Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Caregiver Support Group, and a Brain Gains Group.

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