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Miranda Serra

Miranda Serra, LCSW

Texas

LCSW focused on family and anxiety issues

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  • Family of origin
  • Cognitive behavioral
  • Motivational interviewing

About Miranda

Miranda Serra is an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Texas with ten years of experience. She works with adults on issues such as anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, stress, self-esteem, addiction concerns, parenting strain, and family-related patterns including family of origin issues.

She uses straightforward conversation and practical tools in sessions. Miranda listens to the problems people bring and helps them set clear steps for change. Sessions can include goal-setting, coping skills, and talk about how childhood roles and expectations still affect current choices.

Her background includes work with people facing crisis situations, caregiver stress, and complex emotional reactions after loss. Miranda has experience using motivational interviewing to strengthen commitment to change and cognitive behavioral strategies to identify thinking patterns that keep problems going. Mindfulness techniques are offered to help manage anxiety and improve focus.

In sessions she tends to start from the client’s present needs and what they want to work on first. She discusses practical options and then tries methods that match each person's goals. That can mean short-term problem solving or longer work on recurring family patterns and coping skills.

People who come to her often want clear steps, fewer overwhelming choices, and help changing patterns learned in childhood. Miranda helps people name those patterns, decide what to try differently, and practice new ways of relating and coping.

How Miranda Uses Different Approaches for Remote Work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and helping people set the goals that matter to them. It’s about discussing what feels important now and shaping sessions around those priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to test and change them. Mindfulness Therapy offers simple practices to reduce worry and bring attention back to the present.

Finding the right mix of these approaches is part of the work. Miranda will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can change over time as needs shift.

The original biography does not specify session formats, so confirm which online options are offered before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also lets people use written or spoken methods that suit their comfort, such as talk-focused sessions or brief skill practices between meetings.

Areas of expertise

Also works with

AddictionsLGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseGriefParenting issuesAnger managementCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderDepressionCoping with life changesCoachingCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

Adoption and foster careAging and geriatric issuesAntisocial personalityAvoidant personalityBlended family issuesBody imageCancerCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFatherhood issuesFertility issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameHospice and end-of-life counselingImmigration issuesImpulsivityIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeMen's issuesMidlife crisisVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksPhobiasPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthSelf-loveSexual assault and abuseSocial anxiety and phobiaTrichotillomaniaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingSolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

10+ years

Listed in

Texas

Languages

English

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she help with?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family issues, addiction concerns, parenting strain, and coping with life changes.

What is her therapeutic style like?

She uses plain conversation and practical tools, starting from the client’s current needs and goals to decide which approaches to try.

How much experience does she have?

She has ten years of clinical experience as an LCSW working with a broad range of adult concerns and care-related stress.

What credentials and location are listed?

She is an LCSW licensed in Texas and practices with that credential in Texas.

Which languages and international arrangements are supported?

Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.

What session formats are available?

The original profile does not list specific session formats; confirm current session options before booking.

How does payment work and what does it cost?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

What do I do to begin working together?

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