She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Connecticut in 2010, and completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology, where she held academic appointments as a clinical fellow in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Teaching Fellow in Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. During her internship and her postdoctoral fellowship, Dr. Mills received intensive training in state-of-the-art treatments for traumatic stress through the National Center for PTSD at VA Boston Medical Center. She also gained experience and led groups in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Anger Management, Depression Management, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Dr. Mills was licensed as a clinical psychologist in the state of Rhode Island in 2011.