About Wanda
Wanda Serrano-Miller is a Connecticut-licensed clinical social worker with 40 years of experience. She blends traditional psychotherapy with meditative breathwork to help people find steady ground during hard times. Wanda speaks English and Spanish and aims to make the first step easier for someone seeking change.
She centers care on emotional, physical, and spiritual needs. Sessions often include guided breathing and sitting mindfulness meditation alongside conversation. These tools are used to reduce anxiety, ease self-doubt, and rebuild confidence over time.
How Wanda works
Wanda addresses a wide range of concerns including relationship strains, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, stress, anxiety, and addictions. She also helps people navigate life changes, career uncertainty, anger, and intimacy-related issues. Additional focus areas include aging and geriatric topics, blended family and fatherhood issues, divorce and separation, immigration-related concerns, and healing from infidelity or domestic violence.
Her style combines insight-oriented psychotherapy with practical exercises. Clients practice breathwork and mindfulness during sessions to notice and shift difficult emotions. Conversations then focus on understanding patterns and creating small, doable steps toward change.
Wanda accepts international clients and offers multiple ways to connect. She supports people who want a blend of reflective talk therapy and hands-on meditation tools to help them feel more peaceful and capable in daily life.
What Wanda works with
The areas below are the ones Wanda selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Connecticut |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Mindful approaches and online sessions
Wanda uses insight-oriented psychotherapy alongside breathwork and meditation. Insight-oriented psychotherapy focuses on understanding patterns from personal history and current feelings, which can help with issues like depression, relationship difficulties, and recurring stress. Breathwork and meditation are taught as practical skills to calm the body and reduce anxiety in the moment; clients practice guided breathing to notice and shift intense emotions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist collaborates with each person to match techniques to their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying skills in session, checking what helps, and adjusting the mix of conversation and exercises over time.
Online therapy is offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and guided breathing practice. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support quick reflections, homework check-ins, and ongoing encouragement between sessions, which can be useful for people with busy schedules or varied routines.
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