About Wanda
Wanda Serrano-Miller is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 40 years of practice in Connecticut. She guides people through anxiety, stress, depression, relationship concerns, and life transitions. Wanda blends traditional psychotherapy with breath work and meditation to support emotional and behavioral change.
She emphasizes a whole-person view that looks at emotional, physical, and spiritual needs. Sessions often include guided breathing and mindfulness practices alongside talk therapy. Those techniques are presented as practical tools to manage anxiety and reduce self-doubt.
Background and approach
Wanda uses mindfulness meditation to help clients notice and name difficult feelings. That awareness is used to clear stuck emotions and build calmer responses. The work is paced to each person so skills can be practiced between sessions.
Her approach also addresses issues tied to relationships and family history, including blended family challenges, commitment and control issues, and problems that stem from family of origin. She supports people facing divorce, infidelity, and the fallout of domestic violence by combining reflective psychotherapy with self-regulation practices. Wanda offers help with career stress, feelings of emptiness or isolation, and aging or fatherhood concerns.
Sessions are available in English and Spanish, and she accepts international clients. The practice aims to help clients feel more confident, grounded, and able to manage daily stressors.
Mindfulness and Breath Work in Online Therapy
Wanda incorporates breath work and mindfulness meditation alongside traditional psychotherapy. Breath work involves guided breathing exercises that help lower physiological arousal and create a calmer state, which can be useful for panic, anxiety, and stress. Mindfulness meditation trains attention to present-moment experience and helps people notice thoughts and feelings without immediately reacting, which supports coping with worry and self-doubt.She also uses insight-oriented talk therapy to explore patterns that contribute to relationship difficulties, family of origin issues, and feelings of emptiness. That approach focuses on understanding how past experiences shape current reactions and developing new ways to respond. Choosing the right mix of techniques is collaborative; the therapist works with each person to test approaches and adjust based on what helps the most.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful when visual connection helps learning meditation or practicing breathing together. Phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging let clients exchange brief updates or get support between sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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