Grow, Expand, and Heal with Clinical & Holistic Mental Health Counseling
Camille Miskin, LCSW (she/her), provides grief and mental health counseling to the Davis and Salt Lake City Counties in Utah
Hi. I'm Cami.
I support individuals ages 14+ in navigating grief, trauma, anxiety, and relationship struggles. My approach is LGBTQ+ affirming, trauma-informed, and guides clients back to their own innate wisdom.
I love to facilitate life-expanding discoveries for clients who are ready to connect the dots of past experiences, choose a curious outlook towards their current symptoms and adopt a value-oriented gaze towards their future.
I've seen Cami for a few years now, she's one who you'll connect to, divulge with, go throughout life struggles with. She is open, non judgemental, understanding and devoted to helping you succeed whichever that looks like for you. She is amazingly kind, when needs be, she will challenge you and push you in your goal direction. She is patient, trustworthy, honest, and confidant. I'd highly recommend her to those who need a safe space and clear guidance.
— Emily R.
Expand your life through therapeutic guidance rooted in self-compassion and radical acceptance.
I experienced a transformative expansion of self when I had to lean into the parts of life that people rarely want to dwell in. Not only did I lean in, but I sat with the stories of endings and loss so often that they started introducing themselves to me as beginnings – maybe not the kind that we ask for but instead reflect what it means to be human and should therefore be honored.
When I embraced the hard parts of my story, other people’s ‘hard parts’ became something I longed to support. To metaphorically hold another’s hand through their pain gave me the skill of witnessing profound transition. I may not have my own traumatic-loss stories to match those of my clients, but I am a fierce grief advocate and I study its place in all of our lives with reverence.
This is why our work focuses on acceptance of the dark as well as the light and in healing your relationship with yourself: because I want you to know you’re deserving of love, and I want you to feel worthy in accepting it.
Together, we explore ways to build up safety from within.
We create love-informed boundaries, communication techniques that honor unique interpersonal dynamics, and we will curate a toolbox of adaptive emotional processing skills.
Our sessions are a soft place to unravel painful narratives, including the heaviness we carry around from grief, PTSD, and complex trauma.
You deserve to feel at ease instead of overwhelmed: find ease in your relationship with yourself, with others, and in your own life.
Life can expand beyond our ability to contain all of its transformational power – together we can channel that expansion back into your realm of view so that you may heal with intention. When expansion is channeled into innate wisdom and stories of resilience, we start to reclaim our life.
Am I the right therapist for you?
I’m your gal if:
- You’re tired of minimizing the weight you’re holding…all on your own. You don’t need to be the person everyone else relies on. It’s okay to put down the load. Stop neglecting your healing because it’s easier to dismiss it – it’s real and it’s deserving of support.
- You’re looking for support in grief, anxiety, trauma, transitions such as a, life-altering diagnosis or a loved one’s terminal condition, navigating spirituality, religious contemplations, or relationship issues.
- You’ve been the unfortunate recipient of therapeutic support that didn’t feel very supportive (I’m sorry), and you’re ready to try a more affirming approach. Working from a LGBTQ+ affirming perspective, I hold space for a spectrum of experiences and beliefs – from neuro-typical to neurospicy and devoutly religious to ex-Mormon (somewhere in between!).
We might NOT be a fit if:
- You don’t want to be lovingly challenged. It’s easier to stick to old patterns that have kept you safe in the past. But that’s not expansion; that’s contraction.
- You aren’t ready to question what society tells us about grief…or mental health in general. If it feels more supportive to stick to the status quo (“you should be over this by now,” “your problems aren’t that bad”), we probably won’t be a great match because I disagree with all of those societal conditioned statements.
- You aren’t ready (or able) to address past trauma that therapy (and grief) will inevitably stir. Whether you like it or not, grief and unrelsolved trauma tends to find its way into the therapy office. And it may bring up old heaviness. This is where the work begins.
Although I feel very fulfilled working with grief, I also provide clients with a clinically informed space of healing for a range of mental health issues including anxiety, interpersonal/relational issues, women’s issues such as birth-related trauma, and assertiveness skills (boundaries, baby!).
Grief is an ‘umbrella’ which means that it impacts lots of other pre-existing issues under its scope. Since grief impacts everyone (no matter how mentally well or unwell), I have had many opportunities to increase my expertise on lots of mental health problems that grief simply exacerbates. Being a keen observer of the grief process has widened my scope of many different mental illnesses – something I’m so grateful for as it has expanded my chances to help in more diverse ways!
Professional Experience, Education, and Personal Fun Tidbits
Death Doula. Fluent in German (but rusty). Lover of my dogs and the outdoors.
Wife, Mama, and Pet Parent
My husband and I are proud pet parents to two dogs and three cats. We are even prouder parents of our 5-month old son whom I gave birth to in my bedroom at home (quite the story)!.
Death doula who brings the wisdom of death into life
My time as a hospice social worker changed my life. Exploring the wonder and awe of life through the lens of death doulaship helps me savor what I have and sink deeply into the present. I was trained to do death doula work by Aula Arthur, a world renowned death doula and New York Times bestselling author.
Culture appreciator
Different cultures fascinate me: from the foods they eat,the ways they celebrate, even the way they navigate grief/death, learning about different cultures (and trying ALL the food) is so enriching! I LOVE to travel.
Trying to re-learn German
I spent a year studying abroad in Germany in 2013…but I can definitely understand more than I can say after 10+ of not being immersed in the German culture. Luckily, I’ve been back to visit friends several times and I plan to visit often! Did I mention I love to travel?
Nature + travel lover
My husband and I love hiking, powerlifting, and adventuring around the southwest.
Aspiring sourdough baker
I love relaxing on the weekends and baking my own sourdough, although baking has taken a back seat since becoming a mom!
Professional Experience
- 2019 Bachelor’s in Sociology
- 2022 Masters of Social Work
- 2024 Licensed Clinical Social Worker
- Experience with children and their families attending a speech and language preschool
- Volunteered as a life skills counselor for high schoolers through LifeSTEP
- Interned as a refugee family caseworker with the International Rescue Committee
- Wellness consultant/researcher for Watermark Retirement Communities
- Year-long hospice social worker internship and on-call, nondenominational chaplain with Agape Hospice & Palliative Care
- Certified Grief Informed Professional
- Trauma informed
- Trained in ART: Accelerated Resolution Therapy
- Completed comprehensive death doula training and obtained NEDA end-of-life competency certificate
