Debra Marie Miller
Certified Aroma Therapist
demoils@comcast.net

Twenty-four years of experience with botanical products and integrative health care; Consultant, accomplished formulator and product-development expertise with herbs and essential oils in three industries: skin care, natural products, and integrative health; Entrepreneur.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

• Composed, approachable and highly interpretable workshops focusing on: botanical medicines, personal care, and natural products.
• Aroma Therapist and herbalist with decades of experience
• Formulated blends registered with the Library of Congress
• Flexible communicator, recognize for ability to simultaneously and dexterously serve multiple levels of understanding and all levels of management.
• Excels at client relationships, discerning client needs and adapting to best serve them.
• Published author, KC Wellness Magazine.

CAREER EXPERIENCE

Renewal Oils-Overland Park, KS 2005-Current
Clinical Aroma Therapist/owner

• Botanical research. Developed products and treatments that increased sales and services by expanding the company's salon lines. Responsible for substantiating aroma-therapeutic activity, creating functional fragrances for efficacy, and for educating internal/external personnel on botanicals and essential oils.
• Formulated the aromatics of skin and hair-care products.
• Profiled and categorized essential oils by skin type and by elemental nature, which enhanced the company's premise in Ayurvedic tradition.
• Sourced new oils in keeping with the company's mission, ensuring that new ingredients fit the brand's environmental profile and sustainability practices.
• Ensured correct botanical nomenclature in the company's marketing materials.
• Provided substantiation and credibility for the Pure Essence product line.
• Developed more than 25 monographs on essential oils as resources for marketing and product developement.
• Selling therapeutic-grade essential oils; educating the company's target market-practitioners, wholesalers and end-consumers-to drive product adoption and elevate consumer knowledge; administrative duties.

Essentials Spa - Edinburg, TX 2004-2005
Clinical Aroma Therapist

Developed and implemented specialized therapeutic massage treatments and products, educational programs and support materials that gave staff a greater understanding of the therapies available to promote healing and that engaged patients in their own healing process.

McMullen Chiropractic - Liberty, MO 2001-2004
Chiropractic Assistant

Served in chiropractic practices, as chiropractic assistant. Formulated specific products for numerous individuals.

Emery Chiropractic - Leavenworth, KS 1999-2001
Chiropractic Assistant

Served in chiropractic practices, as chiropractic assistant. Formulated specific products for numerous individuals.

EDUCATION/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Herbal Endeavours - Colleen K. Dodt - Certificate of Completion - MI
• Herbal Endeavours - Colleen K. Dodt - Completion of Apprenticeship - MI
• Organic Chemistry - Ft. Stielacoom CC - WA
• Commercial and Fine Arts - Ft. Stielacoom CC - WA
• Vibrational Therapy - Brownsville, TX
• Kundalini Mediation - Brownsville, TX
• Crystal Therapy - Brownsville, TX
• Stained Glass Studies - Giessan, Germany

PUBLIC SPEAKING/WORKSHOPS

• Raising Awareness Trade Show, Lawrence KS
• KC Metaphysical Fair, Overland Park, KS
• PRS Fair, Kansas City, KS
• Church of the Divine Spirit, Brownsville, TX
• Saint Michaels Grove, Bayview, TX
• Essential Spa, Edinburg, TX
• McAllen Trade Show, McAllen, TX
• McAllen Spa Fair, McAllen, TX
• Mind-Body-Spirit Fair, Tulsa, OK
• Port Isabelle Summer Fest, Port Isabelle, TX

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

• Member of the National Association of Professional Women 2006-2010
• Board of Advisors Heritage College 2001-2004
• Member Beta Sigma Phi 1998-2002