I’m a Therapist. I’m Also a Person in the Room With You.
About Yasmin Miranda, LMHC, LCPC, LPC
I laugh. I occasionally swear. I ask questions, share observations, and don’t believe therapy works better when I pretend I don’t have a personality.
You don’t need to impress me, open up on command, or figure out the “right” thing to say before you get here.
I’d much rather we have an actual conversation.
Especially the ones who question things.
The ones who want to understand why something works before they’re willing to try it. The ones who notice inconsistencies, make connections other people miss, or have already spent approximately 900 hours analyzing their own behavior.
I don’t see that as something we need to get rid of in therapy.
I believe emotions give us information, logic is useful, and neither one needs to win some imaginary fight against the other. A lot of our work is figuring out what both are telling you and what you want to do with that information.
That also means I’m not going to keep forcing an exercise because a therapy textbook says it should work. If something doesn’t resonate, tell me. We’ll talk about why, adjust it, or try something else.
I Have a Lot of Respect for People Who Think Deeply
Now For the Professional Stuff
I’ve spent more than 12 years working across very different corners of the mental health field, including outpatient and inpatient settings, schools, courts, rehabilitation programs, and correctional environments.
That experience has taught me something pretty important: there is no single type of person who comes to therapy, and there definitely isn’t one way of doing therapy that works for everyone.
My approach is integrative, which means I draw from narrative therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance-based work, interpersonal therapy, solution-focused therapy, and motivational interviewing depending on what makes sense for the person in front of me.
My Credentials
Yasmin Miranda
LMHC, LCPC, LPC
Licensed in Three States
Pennsylvania · Maryland · Florida
Qualified Supervisor
Think We Might Get Along?
You don’t have to know whether I’m the right therapist from reading an About page. But if you’ve gotten this far and thought, “Okay, I could probably talk to her,” that’s a pretty good place to start.