About Miriam
Miriam Werquin is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage anxiety and stress. She speaks plainly and listens carefully to what matters most. Miriam aims to make the first step feel manageable for a worried parent or someone at a turning point in life.
She uses straightforward tools to reduce worry and improve daily coping. Sessions focus on practical steps you can try between meetings, plus time to talk through difficult feelings.
Background and approach
Miriam encourages small experiments that build confidence over time. Her background includes five years of master’s level professional work in Louisiana as an LCSW. That experience includes helping people with depression, trauma and motivation challenges.
She also supports those dealing with grief, addiction concerns, and life stage changes. Miriam draws on several approaches in her work. She blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive behavioral techniques and client-centered listening.
Mindfulness and emotionally focused methods are used when they fit the person’s goals. Sessions aim to be collaborative. Miriam helps clients set clear, realistic goals and checks in about what’s working.
She focuses on skills that fit everyday life, such as stress management, emotion regulation, and communication practice. Her practice is grounded in practical support and steady encouragement. People who prefer direct, compassionate guidance find this style helpful.
The work moves at a pace that respects where someone starts and what they want to change.
Approaches for online therapy and practical coping
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck on them and commit to actions that match personal values. This approach can be useful for worry, avoidance, and motivation problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. CBT is often used for stress, depression, and anxiety by teaching concrete skills.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try methods that fit the situation, and adjust the plan based on what helps. Sessions are centered on real-world practice so people can notice change between meetings.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels important. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a shorter break during the day. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or use brief written support for steady progress. These options give flexibility to match how someone prefers to work and to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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