About Miriam
Miriam Davis-Doern is a licensed clinical social worker with decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addictive behaviors. She focuses on building self-esteem, increasing self-awareness, and supporting clients who want lasting changes in daily habits. Miriam offers a direct, respectful approach that aims to meet each person where they are.
She has spent many years supporting young adults who face mental health challenges, autism spectrum concerns, or developmental delays.
Background and approach
Miriam also addresses isolation, social anxiety, and issues that often affect women. Her work includes helping people stop smoking or vaping and cope with seasonal shifts in mood. Miriam uses clear, practical techniques in sessions.
She helps people name what matters, set small goals, and try new ways of coping between meetings. Conversations are straightforward and focused on steps that can be practiced in daily life. Her style is warm and affirming.
She pays attention to personal and cultural experience and aims to create a respectful space for difficult topics. She has a long history of working with LGBTQ+ young adults and people facing discrimination. Miriam holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential in New York (LCSW).
She encourages realistic goals and steady progress, and she supports people through the early, often hard, decision to start therapy.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Miriam draws on evidence-based techniques that teach practical skills and support behavior change. One common approach she uses focuses on developing coping skills for anxiety and mood problems - clients learn breathing, grounding, and problem-solving steps to use when stress rises. Another approach centers on habit and behavior change to address addictions and impulsivity - sessions include setting small, concrete goals and tracking progress between meetings.Finding the right approach is a joint process. Miriam works together with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their life, and adjust strategies if something does not help. The aim is to match techniques to what the client needs and prefers, not to follow a set formula.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues and a more traditional talk format. Phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is low or when a shorter check-in works better. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing encouragement, or flexible scheduling. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also works with
- 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