Services

Hi, I’m Miranda!

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Counseling sessions with me are designed to help you plant the seeds today that will help your path forward.

How Can I Help You?

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Young Adults Therapy

Are you feeling stress or anxiety as you’re entering college, surviving college, or maybe entering the early years of your career? Together we use counseling to improve daily life stressors and explore tools you can use to manage this stress and anxiety.

Let me help you feel more confident and secure handling the overwhelming challenges that come with this stage of life. In addition to counseling, we’ll work together to develop your skills and toolset for a successful, fulfilled, prosperous, and happy journey as you find your own identity and begin laying the groundwork for your career, maybe your family, and your life ahead.

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Teens Counseling

Maybe your teen has come to you struggling with anxiety about school or feeling depressed with how the last year has been for them – or even struggling with peer relationships. Or maybe you’re noticing they’re spending a lot of time in their room, an excess amount of hours on their phone, eating less, or exhibiting other concerning behaviors. These are all signs that your teen may be struggling, and these are all common things we can work on in therapy.

How can therapy help?

I work with teens giving them the tools to manage depression, stress & anxiety and teach them how to control these feelings and behaviors. Teen therapy can strongly improve teen relationships, especially with parents, guardians, siblings, and peers.

When is the right time?

Now is the right time. Don’t wait until behaviors become unmanageable. Catching these ques early and starting therapy is the best approach. However, if you’ve found yourself on my website today because you feel these behaviors have already become unmanageable, it’s not too late. Together we can work on helping your teen cope and manage these feelings to set them up for success now and in their early adulthood years to come.

Talking with your teen about therapy.

To start, share with your teen that you’d like them to meet me and you think I can help them with the things they are struggling with. Our first session will be all about getting comfortable and acclimated with one another and a gentle introduction to therapy. We will discuss privacy & confidentiality in depth – including what that will mean for disclosure of what is discussed in session and what role you as the parent will play in therapy. At that session we will make our plan together for moving forward with therapeutic treatment.

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Relationships & Marriage Therapy

You’ve likely found this website because things just aren’t working as smoothly as you’d like between you and your partner. You’ve come to the right place. Sometimes challenges with relationships can be solved on our own and other times we need a little extra help.

How can therapy help?

• Strengthen your foundation

• Improve communication between you and your partner

• Work through conflict and learn real tools and skills that you can use in your relationship daily

• If considering separation/divorce, I’ll help you process if divorce or separation is the right option for you and can help you begin your journey forward

I can help you determine if therapy is best suited to be accomplished together or independently and can work with both of you on your own strengths and weaknesses individually and in your relationship to help you on a healthier and happier path forward.

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Perinatal Anxiety, Depression, OCD & Grief Therapy

Are you pregnant or were recently pregnant and struggling with depression, anxiety, fear, OCD, PTSD from birth or pregnancy trauma, or grief? Let me join you through your prenatal and postnatal journeys as you experience fluctuating hormones and the feelings and emotions that come along for the ride. With specialized training and certification in Perinatal Mental Health from Postpartum Support International, I am here to help you navigate the ups, downs, and sometimes challenging detours throughout your perinatal journey.

I help moms (and dads) process, work through, and find their way to the other side of:

• Fears and anxieties around baby’s well being in utero and the anticipated birth
• Trauma from pregnancy complications or birthing experiences either from previous pregnancies or recent
• Overwhelming postpartum fears and anxieties around baby’s health, safety, and wellbeing in the first few months or even after
• Postpartum depression or rage
• Postpartum OCD
• The deep grief and pain of perinatal grief from losing your baby including miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss

We work together through counseling and other therapy and wellness techniques and resources to teach how to manage anxiety, monitor mood, stop the start of a panic attack, deescalate a panic attack, monitor depression symptoms, and offer tips and tricks to manage and control depression.

When to begin therapy.

Whether you’ve recently confirmed those two pink lines, are well into pregnancy, or have already delivered, I help clients throughout all phases and stages. I find moms-to-be especially benefit from therapy early in pregnancy through the more high-risk period of the first trimester then again toward the end of pregnancy as anticipation for delivery grows.

I love joining you on your journey from beginning to end as I keep an eye on and manage your symptoms throughout, preventing stress, fear, and anxiety from getting out of control. Managing these emotions is so important for baby, you, and your relationship with your partner and makes for a more enjoyable experience and environment to welcome baby into.

Stopping medications and fertility treatments.

In addition to processing and managing the many feelings and challenges associated with pregnancy, especially early on in the first trimester, some moms-to-be find they need alternative therapeutic interventions for stability throughout pregnancy for medications they’ve had to stop during pregnancy. If you’ve recently stopped psychotropic medications, therapy is a valuable alternative to begin and maintain in their place as soon as possible.

Moms-to-be recently coming off of fertility treatments also often experience elevated levels of anxiety from the trauma of infertility treatment and their journey to conceive. Elevated fears of losing what they’ve worked so hard for make managing stress and anxiety especially challenging and therapy even more valuable.

Living with loss.

Living with loss is so unimaginable, especially when losing a child. From grief to shame to blame to strengthening relationships through loss, I help individuals and couples find life after loss and reclaim joy and happiness for tomorrow.

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Trying to Conceive & Infertility Counseling

If you’re experiencing anxiety, fear, frustration or stress while trying to conceive or you or your partner have been diagnosed with infertility obstacles or roadblocks, therapy can be a valuable part of this journey. Most going through these difficult challenges benefit mentally, physically, in their relationship, and many times even in their efforts to conceive by working with a therapist. These challenges put a lot of stress and pressure on both partners, which makes managing the conception and infertility challenges themselves that much more overwhelming, painful, and difficult. With specialized training in Infertility Counseling from the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, I’m here to help you through this journey I know you never asked to go on.

When therapy is needed?

Whether you’re at the beginning of this journey, well-seasoned in it, or in the next chapter but still feeling the lingering aftershock that most experience, I can help you manage these feelings and find a healthy path forward for you, your partner, your relationship, your family, and your future.

Who is therapy for?

I see women, men and couples, and we work through processing these common feelings and emotions across all sides of the equation, up and down the full spectrum of this journey. Maybe you’ve recently received a new diagnosis. Maybe your challenges are unexplained. Maybe you have other life pressures adding hurdles to the process. Or maybe you’ve had to stop psychotropic medications while trying to conceive and need alternative treatment. I have a wealth of resources, techniques, and tools to share that together we’ll unpack for a happier, healthier you.

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Life Transitions Therapy

Life transitions can look many ways. Whether you are finding your new identity as a first-time parent and adjusting to life with a baby, adapting to parenting a toddler and a newborn, adjusting to a new lifestyle of fostering or adopting, moving to a new job, moving away to college, adjusting to an empty nest with children all moved out, adjusting to a long-distance relationship, entering retirement, adjusting to marriage or living with a new partner, the list could go on and on. All of these things can bring stress to our lives.

How can therapy help?

Therapy is a great place to sort through the feelings that come with these life experiences and learn how to modify your life to successfully adapt to these changes.