Helping you live what matters most and journey towards better health.

“I believe that the journey to health is personal, transformative, and often internal and I feel honored to accompany patients on their own unique journey to wholeness and healing, whatever that journey may look like.”

— DR. SONNY MILES

Hi! I’m Dr. Sonny Miles

I am an integrative medicine physician and founder of Healing with Intention Integrative Medicine. Welcome!  My hope is that you find something in this space that motivates you to pause, to think about what matters, and to know that you are not alone in whatever it is that you are going through. I have spent my first 10 years practicing in a conventional medical setting, first as a hospitalist and then as a palliative care physician.  I am here, in this space, because I want to connect deeply with you.  I want to work closely with you to improve your health and to help you transform the suffering that often comes with serious or chronic illness into something meaningful and healing.  I believe that each of us possesses a powerful intuitive wisdom that can help guide us when we are connected to that innate wisdom.  I believe that different modalities of healing resonate with different people.  My belief is that your intuitive wisdom is the guide and together we can move you along your own, unique healing journey.  

This is my story

“My interest in traditional forms of medicine has led me to explore spiritual healing and plant medicine in Paraguay, meet Mayan healers in Belize, and learn about folk medicine in Mexico.”

I fell in love with the mystery of the human body and healing when I was young. I read and listened to those in complementary medicine and to physicians who bridged the world of conventional medicine with these other ways of healing, such as Andrew Weil, MD, Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, and others. 

I understood that healing was both science and art and required intention and participation and that the body could sometimes heal in amazing ways.  

As a Peace Corps volunteer for two years in Paraguay, I saw what a lack of modern healthcare meant and how important and necessary it is (and miraculous at times). On the other hand, I also witnessed spiritual healers and people using all sorts of indigenous plants for common ailments which helped them live better.  

I started my medical career as a hospitalist, taking care of patients sick enough to be admitted to the hospital.  I became disillusioned with what I called, the “revolving door” where we would get someone well enough to go home but then days or weeks or months later, they were back with the same problem.  

I knew that our toolbox in conventional medicine was limited and I wanted to help people more comprehensively - body, mind, and spirit - and with a much more individualized and comprehensive toolkit. So I returned to my earlier interest and completed a fellowship in integrative medicine through the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine.

I also saw how sometimes the care in the hospital was mismatched with a patient’s goals. I felt we needed to do a better job communicating with patient’s about what our care could and could not do and what patients actually want when they are ill. I found it incredibly meaningful to have these difficult and yet important conversations when someone is very sick or dying.  So, I returned to medical training to complete a fellowship in hospice and palliative medicine.  

I spent several years caring for those with serious illness, talking to them about what mattered and how they lived their best possible moments with illness, and sometimes about the challenges of living when a person knows they are dying.  

Meanwhile, I have been on my own journey of healing and have utilized many different modalities including acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, shamanic healing, breathwork, herbal medicine, vitamins and supplements, psychotherapy, internal family systems, coaching, reiki, Rossiter, yoga, mindfulness-based stress reduction, and craniosacral therapy.  

I founded Healing with Intention to bring all of these together – conventional medicine with the important conversations of palliative care and the tools and understanding of integrative medicine – in order to assist you on your own journey of healing and living what matters most.

More about Dr. Miles

    • University of Arizona, Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine

      Fellowship, Integrative Medicine, 2017

    • University of California San Diego and Scripps Medical Center

      Fellowship, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 2017

    • University of California San Francisco

      Residency, Internal Medicine, 2013

    • University of California San Francisco School of Medicine

      Medical School, 2010

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

      Bachelor’s Degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences

    • Hospice and Palliative Care

    • Palliative Oncology

    • Whole Health Medical Institute

      Founded by Dr. Lissa Rankin, author of “Mind over Medicine and Sacred Medicine”

    • Medical Acupuncture & Functional Medicine

      Academy of Pain Research

    • Traditional forms of medicine, spiritual healing, plant medicine, folk medicine

    • Acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine

    • Shamanic healing, breathwork, herbal medicine, vitamins and supplements

    • Psychotherapy, internal family systems, coaching, reiki, Rossiter yoga, mindfulness-based stress reduction, craniosacral therapy

    • She is a mother of two young boys, a wife, a caretaker of dogs and horses, and a lover of the beauty of the outdoors.

Your healing journey matters.