About Wanda
Wanda Serrano-Miller is a licensed clinical social worker in Connecticut with 40 years of experience. She combines traditional psychotherapy with holistically oriented breath work and meditation. Wanda focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, relationship strain, or major life changes.
She speaks English and Spanish and offers sessions in a range of online formats. Wanda centers work on the whole person - emotional, physical, and spiritual. She uses sitting mindfulness meditation and breathing exercises to help people notice and calm intense feelings.
Background and approach
These practices are paired with talk therapy to address the thoughts and patterns behind struggles like depression, stress, or low self-esteem. Her approach aims to give simple, usable tools. Clients are taught breathing and mindfulness practices they can use between sessions to manage anxiety or anger.
Conversations in session focus on clarity, coping strategies, and rebuilding confidence after difficult events. Wanda also supports people facing life transitions such as divorce, blended family challenges, career changes, immigration-related stress, and aging concerns. She addresses relationship topics including commitment, infidelity, intimacy issues, jealousy, and fatherhood questions.
Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, and international clients are accepted. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Practical Mindfulness and Breath Work Online
Wanda uses breath work and mindfulness meditation alongside traditional psychotherapy. Breath work focuses on simple breathing exercises that help lower immediate stress and ground attention during intense moments. Mindfulness meditation teaches noticing thoughts and feelings without judgment, which can reduce anxiety and improve emotional regulation. She blends these practices with talk therapy to address relationship strain, depression, and stress-related problems.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Wanda works with each person to decide which practices and therapeutic methods fit their needs and goals. She adapts breathing exercises, meditation, and conversation-based techniques based on feedback and progress so the plan evolves over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. Video calls let people work face to face when deeper interaction is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief updates, homework sharing, or ongoing support possible between full sessions. These options help people keep therapy consistent while fitting work, family, or travel routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also works with
- 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