About Miriam
Miriam Charles-Flores is a licensed clinical social worker with 40 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, and ADHD. She speaks English and Spanish and works with clients in Connecticut and beyond.
Miriam draws on years in hospitals, schools, and independent practice to shape her work. She listens carefully and asks questions that help people name the problems they want to change.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and practical. Sessions focus on small, doable steps as well as understanding what keeps a problem going. Her background includes a Master of Social Work from Smith College and long experience with mood disorders, trauma, and family conflict.
She uses a mix of approaches to fit each person. That can mean looking at attachment patterns, learning new thinking skills, or practicing mindfulness exercises. In session she helps clients build a clear plan.
The plan combines education about symptoms, hands-on coping strategies, and goal-focused work. Miriam believes people have the ability to solve their problems when they get guided, steady support. People who come to her often want help making daily life feel more manageable.
She offers concrete tools for sleeping, stress, anger, and concentration. Over time the goal is to reduce repetitive cycles of anxiety or low mood and to strengthen coping and decision making.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can help you notice those patterns in relationships and practice different responses during everyday interactions. Client-Centered Therapy centers the client's experience and values; the therapist offers empathy and reflection while you lead the pace and topics, which works well in talk-based formats.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Miriam will talk with you about goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust plans as progress is made. Finding what helps often takes a few conversations and gentle experimentation together.
Online formats make therapy more flexible. Video calls let you work face to face and use visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when you want to avoid being on camera. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins, quick coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options let you fit therapy into a busy life while using the therapist's approaches to address anxiety, ADHD-related struggles, relationship patterns, grief, and coping with change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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