About Miranda
Miranda Wichelns is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with nearly two decades of experience. She uses a calm, warm approach to help people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. Miranda aims to create a respectful space where someone feels heard and valued.
She has 19 years of experience supporting people through serious illness, hospice and palliative care, pediatric oncology, bereavement, and caregiver strain. That background gives her familiarity with the practical and emotional burdens that come with chronic illness and caregiving roles.
How Miranda works
Miranda also helps people facing relationship wounds tied to attachment, abandonment, and family of origin issues. Her practice blends several approaches so therapy is tailored to each person. She draws on attachment-based work to look at patterns in relating, client-centered therapy to follow the person's lead, and cognitive behavioral techniques to address troubling thoughts and behaviors.
Emotionally-focused and existential ideas also inform conversations about meaning, loss, and connection. Sessions aim to be straightforward and usable. Miranda listens, helps name what is happening, and offers tools people can try between sessions.
She focuses on small steps that can reduce immediate distress and build longer-term coping. Miranda holds LCSW and CSW credentials and practices in Colorado. Conversations are offered in English and shaped around each person's needs and goals.
Miranda lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
What Miranda works with
The areas below are the ones Miranda selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 19 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how people form and keep close bonds. Online sessions can help identify recurring patterns in relationships and practice new ways of relating. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and following the person's lead; the therapist creates space for the client to set the pace and topics no matter the format. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and gives simple exercises to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Miranda will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. That collaborative conversation guides whether more attachment, client-centered discussion, or CBT-style skill building is emphasized.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for written exchanges when scheduling or being on camera is difficult. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.
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