Meet Kristi Miller
Kristi Miller, M.A., LMFT, and founder of Solutions in Parenting, is a Parent Educator, Parenting Consultant, Certified Mediator, licensed Marriage and Family psychotherapist and Clinical Staff at Riviera Therapy in Santa Barbara, California. Kristi offers a distinctive form of parent education and psychotherapy, coupled with hands-on training for parents, individuals and their families. For more two decades, Kristi has been dedicated to a specialized form of parent education she developed which honors and encourages parents and helps them define and maintain their own personal styles. This, in turn, allows children and parents to thrive in a loving and collaborative environment.
Because Kristi is trained as an Individual and Family Therapist, she has a keen ability to figure out a family’s system and help them target their primary issues with gentle and honest accuracy. Kristi’s experience helping individuals and families has produced breakthrough results.
Kristi is also trained to assist families in need of family, divorce and parenting dispute resolution. She is trained as a Mediator, and specializes in helping families, both divorcing and married, resolve their disputes using bond-strengthening® communication skills and her solution-based conflict resolution methods. She maintains neutrality, while allowing each participant to find a solution to meet everybody’s needs. If children are involved, she guides parents how to support children through divorce, helps construct realistic parenting plans, and assists parents to develop helpful and thorough co-parenting agreements.
Our Philosophy
I believe that the catalyst to change is the relationship between the client and the therapist. Just like no two people are the same, no two relationships will be the same either. I bring my real self into the room in an accessible and open way. I meet each client where they are and encourage a dynamic and unique therapeutic framework, being aware that it is impossible to selectively heal, and sustainable healing can happen quickly or subtly and over time. I am transparent about there not being any magic bullet or magic pill to make people feel better, and work closely with clients to be supportive and accessible without pathologizing the human condition. Whether the client needs individual therapy, divorce support, family consultation or education, the work we do will be educational and collaborative calling on the expert experience of the client and relying on the power of hope to heal and transform lives.