Thanks for stopping by! Dr. Steven R. Miller, Ph.D., is located in beautiful Grosse Ile, MI.  Dr. Miller is a Forensic Psychologist who is fully licensed in Michigan and is also a Michigan Certified Consulting Forensic Examiner with 30 years of experience in the criminal, civil and family courts of Michigan.  He has testified as an expert in over 400 cases.  He is a pre-sentencing specialist and has conducted thousands of evaluations for such issues as:

Occupational Objectives: To work closely with organizations and the judicial system to promote the overall security and quality of life in the community.

Experience Highlights

January 1985 to present:

• DBA: DR. STEVEN R. MILLER, Ph.D., L.P. 
• Private practice in consulting Forensic Psychology and Clinical Psychotherapy. Practice is divided approximately 90 percent forensic and 10 percent clinical psychology. Private practice in forensic and clinical psychology, individual and family psychological assessment. Individual adult psychotherapy. Psychotherapy specialty with Borderline, Dissociative Disorders and Sexual Addiction. 
• Specialization in both civil and criminal forensic issues. Sub-specialty related to evaluation of all variety of sexual assaults and compulsive sexual behavior.   Assist with criminal appeal issues including “Risk Assessment” for parole release of incarcerated offenders.  Additionally, an expert in the assessment and treatment of individuals and/or families with addiction problems (alcohol, drug, gambling and sexual addictions).

• CONSULTING FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES

            +        Criminal responsibility
            +        Intoxication
            +        Amnesia & disassociation
            +        Competency to stand trial
            +        Competency to understand Miranda
            +        Voluntariness of confession & Miranda waiver
            +        Presentence reports
            +        Juvenile sentencing assessment
            +        Parole “risk” assessments
            +        Driver license restoration appeals
            +        Workmen’s compensation
            +        Personal injury/disability
            +        Eyewitness identification
            +        Driver’s license restoration evaluations
            +        Children’s memory and testimony reliability
            +        “Repressed” memory syndrome
            +        Sexual deviancy
            +        Sexual assault/sexual harassment
            +        False allegations of sexual abuse
            +        Probate commitments
            +        Battered spouse syndrome
            +        Child custody & visitation

• CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL & PSYCHOTHERAPY PROGRAMS & SERVICES (AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION)
            +        Addictions (sexual, gambling, substance abuse)
            +        Dissociative disorders
            +        Family therapy (divorce/visitation)
            +        Domestic violence/incest family
            +        Attention deficit disorder
            +        Victims of sexual & physical abuse (adults & children)
            +        Post-traumatic stress disorder
            +        Sex & assaultive offenders treatment program
            +        Driver license restoration treatment appeals
            +        Psychological testing (personality, psychopathology, etc.)

• Criminal  Responsibility/Intoxication/Competency to Stand Trial:  Dr. Miller has 23 years of experience in conducting criminal “mental state” evaluations pertaining to issues of legal insanity, intoxication, amnesia, and cognitive impairment due to brain injury or developmental disorders. He has testified more than 400 times in criminal forensic matters and has been accepted as an expert in forensic psychology in over 30 different counties in Michigan and has also testified in Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, Wisconsin and Florida. Dr. Miller has a state certification as a Consulting Forensic Examiner, a certification earned while working for the State of Michigan, Judicial Council, Recorder’s Court Psychiatric Clinic, a state certified forensic center (see below).

• Competency to Understand Miranda/Voluntariness of Confession:  Dr. Miller has conducted over five hundred evaluations of defendant’s capacity to understand Miranda Waiver and relative to the use of psychological coercive techniques by interrogating investigators.  Dr. Miller has participated in approximately one hundred “Walker Hearings”.

• Pre-sentence Reports Adults/Juvenile Sentencing Disposition Recommendations/Sex Offender Risk Assessment:  Dr. Miller is a pre-sentence assessment expert and has been involved in the assessment of well over 2000 psychological evaluations regarding diagnosis, treatability, dangerousness (i.e., “risk” assessment), rehabilitation, and prognosis of defendants and with regard to inmates presenting for parole hearings.

• Workmen’s Compensation/Personal Injury, Social Security Disability/Medical Disability/Probate Commitment:  Dr. Miller has conducted in excess of a thousand assessments of various psychological disabilities as they relate to issues of capacity to work, rehabilitation potential, extent of cognitive capacity loss and need for treatment.
• Eye Witness Identification Issues:  Dr. Miller has  been accepted as a defense expert relative to the vagaries of eye witness identification (i.e., stress and memory recall, cross-racial identification problems, weapons focus issues, line-up issues, context of arrest, eye witness “confidence” vs. accuracy and the affects of unconscious suggestion and/or other “post-event” information  on witness recall accuracy).  To date, Dr. Miller has evaluated approximately 55 of these types of cases and has testified approximately 21 times in Michigan courts.

• Memory Issues (amnesia, children’s memory recall capacity, “repressed memory recall”, dissociation and memory, intoxication and memory and dementia):  Dr. Miller has made an extensive study of memory and consciousness with a focus on issues of memory storage, recall, psychological repression, dissociation and the effects of intoxication as these key cognitive factors and the impact of intoxication relates to matters of criminal, civil and probate litigation.  Dr. Miller has been recognized as an expert with regard to psychogenic and intoxication amnesia, claims of “repressed sexual abuse memories”, children’s vulnerability to suggestion and their cognitive limitations relative to recall and testimony, and, in cases of Dissociative Disorders, such as Dissociative Identity Disorder, DID (formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder or MPD (i.e., affects of the dissociation process on cognitive functioning and memory recall).

• Domestic Violence/”Battered Spouse Syndrome”:  Dr. Miller has conducted more than a thousand evaluations of domestic violence in both criminal and family court cases.  He has testified numerous times as to how to identify the syndrome and with respect to the mental states of the parties in connection with criminal defense issues.

• Driver’s License Appeals:  Dr. Miller has routinely conducts evaluations for the court and for defendant’s who require an assessment for alcohol abuse or related issues pertaining to legal appeals to reinstate their drivers license.

• Sex Crimes/Incest/Sexual Harassment At Work/Victims of Sexual Abuse/False Allegations of Sexual Assault: Dr. Miller is recognized throughout the State as a leading expert and consultant regarding the assessment of sexual deviancy and sexual addiction, “risk” assessment of sex offenders, sexual harassment in the work place and injury assessment of victims of sexual assault.  To date, Dr. Miller has conducted more than 3500 evaluations of such cases and has testified in several hundred criminal and civil litigations relative to sexual assault.  Dr. Miller has consulted to state agencies in the area of assessment and treatment of sex offenders, such as the Department of Corrections, State Mental Health Services, Probation and Parole Agents, and the like, in terms of developing and coordinating the implementation and delivery of assessment and treatment services to these populations.    

September 1979 to May 1989