Practice Profile:
Miki Paul, Ph.D. won the national American Psychological Association 2004 Award for Distinguished Contribution to Independent Practice in the Private Sector denoting “excellence as a practitioner” and the statewide Distinguished Contribution to the Practice of Psychology Award given by the Arizona Psychological Association in 2000 for “exemplary conduct and expertise in the practice of psychology.” She served as President of the Southern Arizona Psychological Association in 2002. She received a 2001 Women Helping Women Award by the Seroptimists. She served as Commissioner on the Tucson/Pima County Women’s Commission from 2003-04. The governor appointed her to the Arizona Board of Psychologist Examiners from 2004-09, serving as the Chair of the licensing/regulatory board in 2007.
Dr. Paul was the only psychologist to win the $10,000 national Sunshine Peace Award in 1998 for her 22 years of volunteerism in the domestic violence movement. She was appointed a Commissioner on the Tucson/Pima County Domestic Violence Commission from 1996 to 2001. As chair of the mental health training team, she initiated 4 free conferences. In 1995 the mayor awarded her a Copper Letter for her activism on the Mayor’s Task Force Against Domestic Violence. She also was President of the board of Brewster Center-Domestic Violence Services.
Using her Master’s degree in counseling and her Graduate Certificate in gerontology, she worked as a therapist in community mental health centers for 7 years. She then went back to college as a single parent to earn her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at Ball State University in Indiana in 1988, a fully approved APA (American Psychological Association) program. Her fully approved APA internship at the Veterans Administration Medical Center brought her to Tucson in 1987. She then worked at the Arizona State Prison-Tucson and La Frontera Center before developing her private practice. As a licensed psychologist and gerontologist she helps young adults, adults, and elderly individuals, couples, and families solve a variety of everyday and more complex problems. Dr. Paul is very interested in the interplay between the psychological, biological, social, and spiritual aspects of healing in each individual.
She serves on the Red Cross Disaster Response Mental Health Team and the board of Let’s End Abusive Households. She maintains memberships in the American Psychological Assoc., the Arizona Psychological Assoc., the Southern AZ Psychological Assoc., the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology, and the AZ Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
On her own time, Miki enjoys her husband, grown daughters, 3 dogs and 3 cats, rollerblading, hiking, traveling, houseplants, mandolin, and reading.
