Who We Are
Anchored was born from psychologists Phyllis C. Solon, Psy.D., LP, and Patti J. Miller, M.A., LP, who each bring over 30 years of experience in clinical practice, higher education, and professional and community training.
Patti Miller, MA, LP
EMDRIA Approved Trainer and Consultant
Consultation for EMDR and Anchored Relational Certification: Individual and Group Online
Consultation for EMDR and Anchored Relational Consultants in Training: Individual and Group Online
Psychotherapy for Adults and Adolescents
Patti’s Approach
Patti is a licensed psychologist, clinician, and consultant, and a nationally and internationally recognized teacher in the areas of complex trauma, dissociation, and mental health challenges that can follow early childhood trauma, violence, and coercive control. Her perspective is informed by developmental neurobiology, systems theory, and feminist theoretical orientations. Patti believes in the sovereignty, dignity, and value of every person.
Patti has been in clinical practice since 1993 and has been teaching and consulting since 2012. She co-founded the Anchored Relational Training Institute and the Anchored Relational Foundational and Advanced Trainings.
She has advanced expertise in the clinical use of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. Patti is an EMDRIA Trainer and Consultant, and a Certified EMDR Therapist.
Patti approaches the people she serves with collaboration and warmth, understanding suffering through spiritual, neurobiological, and attachment-based lenses.
Patti is committed to humanitarian causes nationally and internationally. She has volunteered through churches and support groups, served as a community resource in the aftermath of violence (including providing psychological first aid during a school shooting), and offered therapy services following natural disasters and other community crises.
To support her own mental and physical well-being, Patti enjoys gardening, spending time with friends and her dogs, jogging and walking, taking naps most days, and sharing quality time with her husband of 40 years, their adult children, and grandchildren.
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Phyllis C. Solon, PsyD, LP
Licensure supervision
Individual, group and organizational training and consulting
Trauma, Dissociation, Neurodevelopment,
Feminist-Multicultural theory and therapy
Multicultural Trauma Informed systems
Understanding Neurodiversity across the lifespan
Phyllis’ Approach
Phyllis is one of the authors of the Anchored Relational (formerly Adaptive Internal Relational (AIR) Network) Model, a cutting edge therapy for complex trauma and neuro-dissociative states. AIR Network foundational training has been offered to therapists since the fall of 2015, and over 500 professionals across the United States, Canada, and the UK as well as Egypt and other MENA countries have been trained as of early 2024.
Phyllis teaches and works from a Feminist Multicultural perspective that incorporates developmental neurology, is dignity and competency based, relationally oriented and deeply intersectional. She has worked in a variety of multidisciplinary and multicultural clinical settings serving the needs of children, adolescents and families. She is very knowledgeable about the neurology of attachment, development and trauma and the use of interpersonal neurobiology in conducting therapy across the life span. Organizational consultation around cultural awareness and practice in trauma informed and person centered systems of care has been a focus for over 20 years. Phyllis has consulted with a broad range of organizations including: schools and school districts, juvenile justice organizations, mental health facilities and religious organizations.
Phyllis has been involved with developing mental health programming in small culturally specific agencies and has impacted the development of both clinical and training models in those places. She was involved with the development of the Doctoral program in counseling psychology at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, where the faculty feel very strongly about teaching students within a mentorship model and have worked hard to develop a training program that is relationally grounded, culturally oriented and academically rigorous. Phyllis has consulted and trained professionals in the United States and abroad.
"I want my students and clients to grow into being completely and truly who they are meant to be in the world. My agenda for students and clients is one of love and conviction. I absolutely believe that each and every one of us has a purpose here in this world. I believe that the highest good is to Love and honor and protect others, particularly children and those who cannot protect themselves. I have learned over a long period of time that there is no such thing as self-sufficiency. We are all intensely and intrinsically dependent on one another."