About Miriam
Miriam Werquin is a licensed clinical social worker in Louisiana who helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, and life changes. She focuses on practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable. Miriam aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what matters most to them.
She uses straightforward methods to address stress, low self-esteem, and motivation problems. Sessions often include simple skills to manage overwhelming feelings and tools to build confidence over time.
Background and approach
Miriam draws on approaches like acceptance and commitment work, mindfulness, and cognitive strategies to help people notice what matters and act on it. Miriam also supports those coping with grief, relationship or intimacy concerns, and challenges related to parenting or career shifts. She has experience with addiction issues, bipolar concerns, and attention-related struggles.
Additional focus areas include body image, caregiver stress, and recovery from abandonment or foster care experiences. With five years of master’s-level professional experience, Miriam blends practical coaching with therapeutic work. She encourages small, realistic changes that add up.
The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Miriam offers sessions in English and works through a range of formats like video, phone, chat, and messaging. People who prefer a calm, collaborative approach may find her style a good match.
Practical therapy approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce distress and improve daily habits. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the client’s goals guide the work; this approach supports emotional insight and stronger self-direction.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Miriam will work together with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adapts strategies over time and checks in to make sure the work feels useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for more in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into busy schedules or require less bandwidth, and chat or messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing reflection between visits. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting around work, caregiving, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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