Alexandria Miller, PhD

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Alexandria Miller is a clinical psychologist who focuses on increasing access to care for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and oppression-based stress (OBS) for intersectionally minoritized individuals, including the development, adaptation and implementation of acceptable and efficacious evidence-based treatments. Dr. Miller has published her research in multiple peer-reviewed journals, presented at nationwide conferences, and has been honored at the BU Emerging Scholars Symposium.

Dr. Miller has clinical expertise in the evidence-based treatment of Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), oppression-based stress, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and anxiety disorders.

Dr. Miller is an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Boston University Medical Center, the Program Manager of the Behavioral Health Equity Program, the Project Director of an NIH-funded R01, and is an affiliate researcher at Fenway Health.

Dr. Miller received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Suffolk University, completed her predoctoral internship in the Women's Trauma Recovery Team at the Boston VA Healthcare System, and her postdoctoral research fellowship in the Women's Health Sciences Division at the National Center for PTSD. She serves as the chair of the Collective Liberation and Intersectionality SIG at ABCT and is a previous ABCT CHANGE Leader (2023-2025).

Publications

  • Published 7/10/2024

    Miller AN, Graham-LoPresti J, Liverant G, Roemer L, Orsillo SM. Exploring the Effectiveness and Acceptability of a Self-Help Acceptance-Based Behavior Intervention for Anxiety in Black Adults: An Uncontrolled Pilot Study. Behav Ther. 2025 Mar; 56(2):381-394. PMID: 40010907.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 1/1/2024

    Miller AN, Wachen J. In R. T. (Ed), Facilitating engagement with homework in CBT with complex cases. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. 2024.

  • Published 1/1/2024

    Miller, A. N., LoPresti, J., Liverant, G., Roemer, L., Orsillo, S. M. . Exploring the effectiveness and acceptability of a self-help acceptance-based behavior intervention for anxiety in Black adults: An uncontrolled pilot study. Behavior Therapy. 2024.

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  • Published 4/5/2023

    Ng LC, Miller AN, Bowers G, Cheng Y, Brigham R, Tai MH, Smith AM, Mueser KT, Fortuna LR, Coles M. A pragmatic feasibility trial of the Primary Care Intervention for PTSD: A health service delivery model to reduce health disparities for low-income and BIPOC youth. Behav Res Ther. 2023 Jun; 165:104310. PMID: 37040669.

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  • Published 1/1/2023

    Seager van Dyk, I., Miller, A. N. Introduction to the special issue: Harms caused by the misappropriation of cognitive behavioral therapies. the Behavior Therapist. 2023; 7(46):245-247.

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Education

  • Suffolk University, PhD
  • Suffolk University, MS
  • University of Iowa, BA
  • University of Iowa, BS