About Miriam
Miriam Davis-Doern is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York. She draws on more than three decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, anger, and low self-esteem. Miriam aims to create a calm space where clients can talk about what’s hardest and build practical ways forward.
She focuses on everyday changes that make life easier. That can mean developing healthier habits, practicing ways to handle strong emotions, or learning skills to reduce social anxiety and isolation.
Background and approach
She also supports clients working on smoking or vaping cessation and seasonal mood changes like SAD. Miriam has extensive experience with young adults and with people on the autism spectrum or with intellectual disability. Her approach honors each person’s background and lived experience, including work with LGBTQ+ young adults and people facing discrimination.
She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every session. Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-focused. Miriam helps clients set clear, achievable steps and checks progress together.
She encourages practical tools that can be used between sessions to build confidence and increase self-awareness. For people worried about starting therapy, Miriam acknowledges that it takes courage. She invites clients to explore specific goals and offers steady support along the way.
Her aim is to help people feel more capable and in control of daily challenges.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many clients benefit from structured, skills-based approaches that teach practical coping tools. One common approach focuses on learning emotion regulation and problem-solving skills to manage anxiety, anger, and mood symptoms. These techniques break down reactions into small steps and offer exercises you can practice between sessions.Another useful approach emphasizes behavioral activation and habit change to address depression, low motivation, and addictive behaviors. It focuses on identifying simple, achievable activities that increase engagement and reduce destructive patterns, such as strategies for smoking or vaping cessation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Miriam collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. She adjusts techniques as progress is made and discusses options so clients understand why a particular method might help.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls are best for in-depth conversations and reading nonverbal cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat lets you check in quickly, and text-based messaging supports ongoing short updates between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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