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About Dr. Miller

Dr. Miller is an Ivy League–trained physician who has spent the past five years helping patients get care through telehealth. He earned his medical degree at Columbia University and completed residency training at Washington University, and he now practices across 25 states through a licensed telehealth platform.

His work at TheHealifyPet is the clinical assessment itself: reviewing your intake, conducting the consultation, forming a professional judgment about whether you meet the Fair Housing Act definition of a person with a disability, and — where the assessment supports it — writing and signing the documentation. He is fluent in Spanish and conducts consultations in either language.

What patients tend to remark on is the tone. An assistance animal request often arrives alongside something difficult: a fourteen-day notice, a move, a period of poor mental health someone has not discussed with anyone. Dr. Miller's consultations are deliberately unhurried and free of judgment, while remaining clinically rigorous enough that the resulting letter holds up when a property manager scrutinises it.

Consultation Areas

Through his telehealth practice, Dr. Miller consults on:

• ESA letter evaluations — assessment and documentation for assistance animals in housing.
• Psychiatric service dog (PSD) evaluations — assessing disability-related need for trained task work.
• Medical cannabis consultations — where state law provides for them.
• Longevity and preventive care — risk review and preventive planning.
• Medically managed weight loss — mental-health professional-supervised programs.

Only the first two are part of the TheHealifyPet screening. The others sit within his wider telehealth practice and are mentioned here so you have the full picture of his clinical work.

How He Assesses a Request

The clinical question is not whether you love your animal. It is whether you have a mental or emotional impairment that substantially limits a major life activity, and whether this particular animal alleviates identified symptoms of it. Dr. Miller works through symptom history and duration, day-to-day functioning, what you have already tried, and the specific ways the animal changes your week.

He declines requests where the assessment does not support documentation, and he says so directly rather than leaving you guessing. Where something surfaces that deserves ongoing care rather than paperwork, he will tell you that too, and point you toward it.

Beyond the Clinic

Dr. Miller is a lifelong athlete. He played rugby for ten years and captained both his college and medical school teams, and he holds a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He lives in St. Louis with his wife and children, and spends his time outside the clinic traveling, cooking and skiing.

It is relevant for one reason: the discipline that gets someone through a decade of competitive rugby and a Jiu-Jitsu brown belt is the same discipline that shows up in a careful clinical assessment. He is not signing forms at volume.

How to Verify Him Yourself

You should not take our word for any of this, and you would not have to for any mental-health professional. If a provider — us included — will not give you a license number to check before you pay, treat that as the answer to your question.