Miranda Ward

Miranda works primarily with couples and families. She prides herself in working with couples and families who have complex needs and identities. In the context of couple and family therapy, she works to open opportunities for all participants to talk about past and current relationship wounds to understand the meaning of repeat conflicts and improve relationships. Clients have reported consistently that they feel safe in sessions to discuss difficult topics and their relationships improve because of her intervention style and relationship rapport with her clients. The focus of her work is primarily with couples and families. Her approach applies Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) though a family systems lens. She has obtained Advanced Training in Emotionally Focused therapy and continues her learning in this approach. Additionally, she applies Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy, IFS, somatic interventions and some aspects of the Gottman method (level 2 training). In each modality, I have sought further training and will continue to do so. If you are not familiar with Emotionally Focused Therapy, this approach applies science-backed knowledge of attachment and family systems to improve relationships within couples and families. You can expect to find a safe environment to increase the ability to build new relational skills through emotional exploration and support and the validation that there are no "wrong" emotions. In sessions participants may be directed to slow down their interactions to increase awareness of their experiences and to develop awareness of why they things they do are seeking to make meaning out of life experiences. ​Miranda is open to working with children and adolescents and incorporate play and art interventions when family members are willing to be active participants to be involved in treatment. Engaging all family members is based on the family systems approach that considers the impact that our family stories have on the distress we experience and our outlook of the world. Miranda particularly enjoys working with non-traditional couples and families including diverse gendered couples/parents, addiction, C-PTSD, PTSD, intimacy concerns, couples and families impacted by the family court system, older couples in their second marriage, and family and friend systems. She has an interest in working with couples where one or both partners have OCD, as well as family systems with an adolescent or teen with disordered eating. Prior to her career as an LMFT she has over 18 years of experience working with family systems through play and art where one or multiple members of the family have an acquired or congenital disability or completing neurobehavioral assessments as a New York Department of Health contractor and applying in home skill interventions for indviduals with deficits. These experiences assist her in working with couples/families who are impacted by disability including neurodivergence, traumatic brain injuries, and ADHD. Currently only daytime appointments are available.