Miles Bukiet is a Columbia University and University of Pennsylvania trained therapist who reaches out with humor, embodied listening and presence. Action-oriented, results driven, Miles invites feedback, shared engagement, and mutual accountability.  Whether you are struggling with anxiety, uneven self-esteem, relationship challenges, career questions, or achieving goals, Miles brings hope, amplifies your strengths, and lends energy and focus to your process, as you move deeply into a new relationship with yourself and the world. 

Miles’ presence has been honed through years of solitary meditation retreat practice under the guidance of Buddhist teachers (over 10,000 hours), extensive body-based training in Alexander Technique, yoga, Tai Chi /Chi Kung (in Central China). His perspective on change has also been informed by work in the academic, non-profit, and for profit sectors.  Miles is dedicated to seeking ways to align the body, heart and mind in real time to support clients’ ability to connect with and trust their intuition, and allow the nervous system to settle and heal itself. The more this is experienced within the therapeutic relationship, the more clients can experience life from a grounded and centered place, less thrown by and reactive to outside forces.

What will happen if we are successful? As your system melts out of the rigid ways you were shaped by the past, you may feel more pain or intense emotion than you are used to, but alongside that a new peace and clarity will also emerge. His clients often report heightened sensitivity and awareness of their inner experience, improved ability to listen and respond to needs - both their own and others, and a growing sense of internal power and emotional freedom. 

As a therapist and researcher, Miles Bukiet has seen how psychedelic assisted therapy can be a powerful catalyst for personal and relational growth.  Miles was a study therapist at NYU’s Center for Psychedelic Medicine working to understand the impact psilocybin has on depression. He is trained in MDMA assisted therapy via the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) the group responsible for the ground-breaking research leading the FDA to the verge of rescheduling MDMA. And is trained in Ketamine assisted therapy by the Psychedelic Research Training Institute (PRATI), among others.

Miles’ intensive Buddist practice includes two years of solitary retreat under the guidance of B. Alan Wallace and Roshi Joan Halifax and three years at various monasteries and practice centers in the US and Asia. He is also certified to teach Emery’s Cognitively Based Compassion Training course (CBCT) and Stanford’s Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT).

Miles Bukiet was born in New York City, but now lives in the Hudson Valley. He loves freezing cold water, kite surfing, physical books and wild nature.  In addition to his work as a therapist, he leads meditation retreats, is a core member of a team building the Madrona Meditation app, is the co-founder of Dharma Gates (a non-profit that connects young people to meditation) and From Love (a community devoted to helping people develop healthy tech habits).