Renée Miller, MA, LMFT

Founder and Executive Director

After winning a near-fatal and years-long battle with anorexia, Renée devotes her professional life to helping others fully recover from eating disorders. Empowering others "to recover for life," she says.

Renée attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing and Antioch University in Los Angeles, California for her undergraduate studies. She earned a Master of Arts in Psychology from Antioch University. Renée completed an additional internship and training in self-injury and trauma, and also trained at the Loyola Marymount University Art Therapy Program in Los Angeles.

Renée is an adjunct faculty member in the UAB Psychology Department, where she teaches eating-disorder-related seminars to honors students. She is Vice President of the Alabama Foundation for Eating Disorders, a nonprofit group devoted to advocacy and awareness. Renée also maintains a Birmingham-based private practice specializing in eating disorders, trauma and self-injury.

She has treated clients with eating disorders for nearly nine years and worked in the field of eating disorders and women’s issues for more than 12 years.

Renée has been a consultant for treatment programs nationwide. She founded and developed the Alabama's first and only residential treatment center for eating disorders.

Before returning to her hometown of Birmingham, Renée worked with eating disorders throughout the United States. She was the Lead Counselor and consultant at the Center for Discovery, an adolescent residential eating-disorder program; Assistant Program Director at Castlewood Treatment Center for eating disorders in St. Louis, Missouri; and a private-practice therapist in Los Angeles, treating those with eating disorders, self-injury, trauma and women's issues.

Renée intimately understands how eating disorders destruct the lives of those with the illness and their loved ones. Yet, she realizes that each struggle is unique. She believes in individualized, respectful and relationship-based treatment that works in collaboration with – not against – each client.

Renée is a skilled athlete, vocalist, musician and a fine-coffee drinker. She has a wonderful, quirky sense of humor that helps her keep perspective on this thing called life.

“I am open to life’s possibilities and see each and every experience as another opportunity to learn and grow and share,” she says.