Ethan Milner

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Ethan Milner is a social worker who has been in the field since he started working as a peer mentor at the Common Ground Sanctuary runaway shelter when he was 16 years old. In the intervening decades, he has served in numerous roles in the field of social work, from case management with homeless and severely mentally ill populations, to working with survivors of child sexual abuse, to working at a school for young people with special needs.

Ethan obtained his Master's degree in Social Work at the University of Michigan School of Social work and spent subsequent time focusing on crisis-oriented services and helping clients to heal from posttraumatic stress. Ethan then had the unexpected opportunity to integrate his personal experiences as someone who was raised by a father and brother with Autism, and a mother with ADHD, into his work at the Looking Glass Community Services Center Point School in Eugene, Oregon. For nine years, Ethan served as a therapist at Center Point School, and this experience helped him not only to develop his skills as a therapist, but to learn more about himself and his family as well.

Since returning to Michigan, Ethan has worked as a therapist with a goal of implementing an evidence-based practice that is rooted in relationships and helping neurodiverse individuals along their own path of discovery. In the process, Ethan has been able to find that connection, kindness, and compassion are key not only in how we treat each other, but also how we hold ourselves.