Milah Jayanti
(she / her)
MSW, Therapist

Milah is a Clinical Social Work Associate with a Masters in Social Work. Milah began interacting with the mental health system as a teenager and realized how much can be problematic about it. Because of this, she is passionate about work with young people and families that is holistic and heart centered. As a CSWA, Milah has been deeply enjoying working with young people and families. As an MSW student she worked at two internships – Trauma Healing Project and Options Family Counseling. Since then, she has been working at a family counseling center with teens and adults. Prior to her graduate program, Milah worked for 15 years as a coach and consultant… and before that she worked with teen youth groups as well as in the public school system.

Milah is unique in that she has three decades of experience as a mystic and contemplative and has learned from and worked with people from around the world. These experiences have given her a unique lens to help young people and families see themselves and each other with fresh eyes, developing tools to help them connect more deeply with themselves and each other. Additionally, Milah has a profound understanding of intergenerational trauma which comes from lived experience and navigating and healing extensive childhood trauma herself, as well as grief and loss.

Milah is thrilled to be working at Academy at Sisters and finds great joy in therapeutic work that empowers clients to find their own center of gravity and their own true north so that they can live and thrive in a way that feels meaningful and deeply fulfilling to them. As a therapist, Milah has been described as warm, kind, practical, and trustworthy. Milah has a strengths-based, humanistic approach and most often uses tools of CBT, DBT, EMDR, somatic work, art therapy, as well as interpersonal neurobiology. She is currently working on her certification in EMDR.