Mira LPCC, MFTC
Mira uses empathy, patience and authenticity to create a space for her clients to share their inner worlds in a way that feels true to them, through play, art, dance, and/or talking. Mira works with all ages, serving children, teens, and adults, and also serves as a family therapy. Mira provides a calm grounding presence for her clients and welcomes all emotions and experiences into the room. Mira builds deep meaningful connections with her clients as well as their parents/guardians.
Mira is a University of Colorado Denver graduate who earned her Master’s degree in Counseling with a concentration in Couple and Family Therapy. Mira is a licensed professional counselor candidate and a marriage and family therapy candidate. Mira trained for 12 months at The Mariposa Center for Infant, Child, and Family Enrichment where she strengthened her skills in trauma informed creative arts based therapy. During her training, Mira ran a social emotional Dungeons & Dragons group for tweens. Mira is currently working towards her Registered Play Therapist certification. She believes that children have rich inner experiences that are expressed and communicated differently than adults. Mira recently received her level one training in Theraplay. Theraplay is an attachment based model of therapy that helps build a healthy bond between child and caregiver.
The foundation of Mira’s therapeutic practice comes from an attachment based model. Mira views her client’s and their parents’/guardians’ early childhood relationships and experiences as pieces of the therapeutic puzzle. Mira works from a non-directive play therapy model with children. Mira welcomes people of any gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, size, sexual orientation, ability level, neurotype, religion, family structure, and culture.
Mira has experience working with attachment trauma, adoption, multi-racial family dynamics, racial identities, self-esteem, perfectionism, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, death and dying, parent coaching, children, adolescents, families, life transitions, peer relationships, self-harming, suicidal ideation, women’s issues, aging, and burn-out.
