About Miriam
Miriam Werquin is a licensed clinical social worker based in Louisiana who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. She offers calm, straightforward support for those trying to build motivation, self-esteem, and more satisfying relationships. Miriam aims to make the first step feel manageable and respectful for anyone who reaches out.
She works from a person-centered stance that begins with listening. Sessions focus on what matters most to the client and on practical steps they can take between meetings.
Background and approach
Miriam blends body-focused awareness with talk-based methods to address how stress and past hurt show up in daily life. Her background includes five years of master’s-level professional work as a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW. That experience includes helping people cope with grief, substance concerns, ADHD-related challenges, and career or parenting stresses.
She also supports those dealing with intimacy issues, abandonment wounds, and caregiving strain. Therapy sessions often use acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, along with cognitive-behavioral tools to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Emotionally-focused techniques are used when relationships or attachment patterns are central to the work.
Somatic practices help clients notice and work with physical tension and safety in the body. Miriam encourages a collaborative process where goals are set together. She explains options in plain language and helps people try small, doable changes.
The focus is on steady progress and on skills clients can use outside of sessions.
Approaches that include the body and values
Miriam combines somatic work with values-based and client-centered methods to help people feel steadier in their bodies and clearer about their choices. Somatic therapy focuses on noticing physical sensations and tension patterns so stress and trauma can be processed through gentle body awareness; this can help when emotions show up as tightness, fatigue, or restlessness.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and take small actions toward those values, even when hard thoughts or feelings are present. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building trust so clients feel heard and can guide the pace of the work.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Miriam works collaboratively to choose methods that match each person’s goals, needs, and comfort level. She explains options in everyday language and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible and easier to fit into busy lives. These formats allow regular check-ins, practice between sessions, and different ways to connect depending on what feels best for the client.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English