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Miranda Sharp, LCSW - Therapist at Grow Therapy

Miranda Sharp

Miranda Sharp

(she/her)

LCSW
4 years of experience
Virtual

Hi there! I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in North Carolina. I earned my Master of Social Work degree from the University of South Florida in 2018 and haven’t stopped learning and growing since. My work focuses on increasing emotional acceptance and healthy coping from an attachment perspective. I love helping adults learn how to navigate stressful times while building healthier relationships for lasting resilience. I believe that relationships and connectedness are the most important factors impacting our wellbeing in general, and that learning and implementing skills to develop healthier connections can be life changing.

What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?

In our first session together, I’ll gather information about where you’re at and where you’ve come from, then we’ll dive into where you’d like to go. We will create goals for therapy that are based on what you say you’d like to work on. Together we’ll make a personalized plan for us to work through in follow-up sessions.

Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.

Having worked on a military installation for the past four years and being an active-duty Marine Corps spouse myself, I am deeply familiar with the common issues that arise from emotional avoidance and nonacceptance, working in high stress environments, and frequent and/or major life changes. I have a detailed understanding of how this stress can erode your relationships and leave you feeling disconnected, as well as an immense appreciation for the importance of having healthy connected relationships to protect you from all of life’s stressors.

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My treatment methods

Acceptance and commitment (ACT)

I’ve been using ACT in my practice for four years. It’s helped dozens of clients learn to recognize and accept their emotions, while teaching them to use their values to guide them through difficult times. ACT will help to increase your psychological flexibility, teach you how to be grounded in the present moment, and enable you to see yourself as more than just your situation or illness. ACT is an ideal treatment for a variety of mental health conditions and life situations. Whether you're hoping to adapt well to major life changes like military retirement or divorce, or you'd like to better manage depression or anxiety, or even if you’re looking to enrich your life in general, ACT will help. ACT will take us from avoiding discomfort to embracing discomfort, judging thoughts and feelings to accepting them as helpful informants, and from feeling powerless to engaging in values-committed action.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

EFT is a kind of attachment-based therapy which helps both individuals and couples build healthier, more connected relationships. As a therapist who believes that our relationships are the key to our wellbeing, I have used EFT for years to help individuals and couples learn to approach, accept, and tolerate their emotions to increase accessibility, responsiveness, and engagement in their relationships. With EFT, we will get to know your attachment history and resultant attachment style, then get to work in healing any attachment wounds you may have. EFT will help you to harness the protective power of healthy supportive relationships to face all of life’s varietal hardships from the safety of a secure base of attachment.

Psychoeducation

Using my expertise as an experienced Licensed Clinical Social Worker, I have been providing personalized psychoeducation to every client I have worked with for over four years. With psychoeducation, you will learn about your diagnosis, symptoms, and helpful symptom management. Having a deeper understanding of your diagnosis and helpful coping strategies is known to significantly improve treatment outcomes. In today’s world, there is no shortage of so-called experts on social media spreading less than professional advice and opinions related to the world of mental health. Unlike many social media “experts” I am an actual expert with a license, multiple degrees, and years of experience, so you can trust me to lead you away from ignorant and potentially damaging information. With the right psychoeducation, you will feel empowered to manage your symptoms in a way that works best for you!

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-i)

I was trained in CBT-I early on in my work as a therapist because insomnia often accompanies other mental health diagnoses and can be debilitating. Since being trained, I have used CBT-I to help dozens of clients regain their sleep without medications. To do this, we will focus on sleep hygiene, cognitive restructuring, relaxation techniques, and sleep consolidation. We’ll use CBT-I to learn about behaviors that encourage healthy sleep and reduce arousal, then make a personalized plan to help set yourself up for restorative sleep. We will track your sleep and use sleep consolidation to increase the quality of your sleep before we aim to increase quantity, so you spend less time staring at the ceiling and more time getting some much-deserved rest.