About Miriam
Miriam Charles-Flores is a licensed clinical social worker with 40 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship and intimacy concerns. She supports people coping with trauma, addictions, sleep and eating problems, anger, self-esteem, and life changes. Miriam also assists those facing career questions, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges.
Her style is warm and attentive. She listens carefully and encourages clients to take an active role in sessions.
Background and approach
Miriam aims to help people identify their own goals and build practical steps toward them. She works in English and Spanish and practices from Connecticut. Her background includes work in outpatient and inpatient hospitals, schools, and independent practice.
She earned a Master of Social Work from Smith College and has long experience with mood disorders, complex trauma, and family conflict. That breadth helps her spot patterns and tailor care to each person. Miriam blends several approaches to fit each person’s needs.
She uses client-centered listening, mindfulness practices, cognitive-behavioral techniques, attachment ideas, and emotionally-focused work when helpful. Sessions focus on clear goals, skill-building, and practical problem solving. Many clients find her straightforward, compassionate manner helpful for reducing repeating cycles of anxiety and depression.
She aims to offer thoughtful guidance and tools people can use between sessions to manage stress and improve relationships.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early bonds affect current intimacy and communication. This can be useful for relationship challenges, commitment issues, and attachment-related anxiety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Mindfulness therapy brings attention to the present moment and teaches simple practices to reduce rumination and manage stress.Miriam treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that match those needs, and adjust the plan over time so the work fits the client rather than the other way around.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for full sessions with visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, reflections between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into work, parenting, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on progress and practical tools.
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Miriam address?
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
What is her background and experience?
What credentials and location are on record?
Which languages are offered and are international clients accepted?
What session formats are available?
How is cost handled?
How do I begin working with this therapist?
Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English, Spanish