About Miriam
Miriam Brisley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania with 17 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people change patterns that no longer serve them and supports practical steps toward clearer goals. Miriam presents a direct, encouraging approach and is frank about the effort therapy often requires.
Miriam has spent much of her career helping people who have experienced trauma. She helps clients understand how past events still affect thoughts, feelings, and relationships today.
How Miriam works
No trauma is dismissed - large or small - and she works with each person at their own pace. Her work draws on client-centered care and cognitive behavioral techniques. She also uses mindfulness and solution-focused tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, and depression.
Motivational interviewing appears in sessions when clients want support making concrete changes, such as addressing substance use or shifting coping habits. Common issues she addresses include addictions, grief, family-of-origin patterns, intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. Additional focuses listed include body image, codependency, communication problems, and managing anger or bipolar symptoms.
Miriam describes herself as practical and supportive. She aims to make people feel comfortable while encouraging the work that leads to change. Sessions emphasize clear steps, skills practice, and collaborative goal setting.
Miriam lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Miriam works with
The areas below are the ones Miriam selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
How Miriam’s Approaches Work Online
Miriam uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful, empathetic space where the person’s goals guide the work. This approach emphasizes listening and responding to what each person says matters most, and it helps with building trust and clarity around priorities.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT involves learning specific skills and exercises to change unhelpful thinking and reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, and stress. Motivational interviewing is another tool she uses to help people find internal motivation for change when they face issues such as substance use or stuck habits.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Miriam works together with each person to test strategies, adjust methods, and decide which tools fit best for their goals and lifestyle. She explains options and helps prioritize steps based on what the person wants to achieve.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can support short check-ins, homework review, or ongoing encouragement between live meetings. These formats make it possible to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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