Behavioral Nutritionist providing counseling for Weight Management & Eating Disorders
301 - 699 - 1661

Serving Montgomery, Anne Arundel, & Howard counties, Maryland

Dr. Daisy Miller, Behavioral Nutritionist, providing counseling for:

• Weight Management
• Eating Disorders

Pediatric Feeding Specialist

• Infant through teen
• Recommended by pediatricians throughout Montgomery, Anne Arundel, and Howard counties

What is Behavioral Nutrition Counseling?

Behavioral nutrition bridges the gap between nutrition and psychology. It is more about how we eat than what we eat. Dr. Miller works with her clients to explore eating behaviors from multiple angles, to understand the whole problem that is interfering with normal eating. She teaches her clients internal regulation skills to help them better respond to their hunger and fullness cues. For eating problems concerning children, Dr. Miller helps families improve the feeding relationship so that children grow to be independent, competent eaters and be at the healthiest weight for them. The core of this approach is promoting self-awareness, self-esteem, and self-care.

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Weight Management

Dr. Miller's counseling approach may be right for you if you've had little or only short term success managing your eating alone. Dr. Miller can help you look at your eating behaviors from multiple angles, to understand the whole problem that is interfering with normal eating and your ideal weight. Dr. Miller will teach you effective coping skills so that you will be able to manage your weight while building a peaceful relationship with food and a great self-image.

Dr. Miller may be your answer to your weight and eating struggles if you:

• Feel out of countrol when you eat
• Feel very self-conscious about your body
• Binge eat
• Overeat mainly at night
• Eat when you feel anxious, stressed, bored, or sad
• Have difficulty fully enjoying parties, holidays, and family events
• Have difficulty sticking to self-imposed eating rules
• Have difficulty knowing when you are full

Eating Disorders

Dr. Miller has an eclectic treatment approach consisting of cognitive behavioral therapy and integrative eating skills. Her treatment philosophy is to help clients work through their symptoms of the eating disorder with behavioral skills to expedite recovery. Dr. Miller's counseling approach addresses poor body image and fear of weight gain. She has a very relaxed, non-threatening, and minimally-clinical approach (no scale weighing). Dr. Miller sees teens and adults who are struggling with bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and EDNOS (eating disorders non otherwise specified) with no medical urgency. Dr. Miller works closely with the entire health care team for the best treatment care.

Infants, Toddlers, and Older Children

Dr. Miller, a pediatric feeding specialist, helps parents' with their concerns about their child's eating. The most common concerns are picky eating and childhood overweight.

Selective (Picky) Eating

Feeding picky eaters can be challenging, and power struggles and mealtime battles often result when parents get frustrated. By understanding the parent/child feeding relationship, Dr. Miller help parents bring peace to family meals while broadening their child's food preferences. Dr. Miller takes a family-based approach so that no child is singled-out.

Childhood Overweight

Managing childhood weight is tricky business; traditional methods can send children to eating extremes. Dr. Miller provides parents with tools to communicate hunger and fullness feelings, institute a better structure for meals and snacks, purchase an optimal variety of food, and encourage physical activity. She focuses on long-term, health-driven changes that empower kids and support their self-esteem.

Teens

Dr. Miller works with teens one-on-one to help them feel truly independent with their eating and care for their bodies with good food choices, regular exercise, and listening and responding to their internal hunger and fullness cues. Many teens struggle with poor body image, and this only interferes with self-care. Having poor body image can also prevent teens from succeeding in many aspects of their lives. I challenge teens' views about societal standards of beauty and their internal struggles to fit expectations that may be unrealistic. I help teens build a peaceful, life long relationship with food and a positive self-image.

Special Concerns

There are a variety of circumstances and biological challenges that may interfere with healthy eating. Dr. Miller helps clients who also struggle with:

• ADHD
• Obsessive/compulsive disorder
• Depression

Meet Dr. Daisy Miller

Dr. Daisy Miller earned a Ph.D. in behavioral nutrition with a concentration in family therapy at Penn State University. Her work experience includes teaching at the university level, consulting, public speaking, and writing. Dr. Miller is a licensed dietician nutritionist, a certified nutrition specialist, and is on the Maryland State Board of Dietetic Practice. She has authored research papers in peer-reviewed journals on the subject of weight management and family relationships.

Dr. Miller is a contributing author for Parents and Child magazines and other national publications. Dr. Miller is one of only a small number of professionals across the country with similar expertise.

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Gaithersburg, Maryland

Shady Grove Professional Park
8929 Shady Grove Ct.
Gaithersburg, MD 20877
Office Hours: Thursdays 12:00 - 9:00pm

Riverdale Park (near College Park), Maryland

Doctors Office Building
4404 Queensbury Rd., Ste. 210
Riverdale Park, MD 20737