Miri Eynan

Miri Eynan (she/her) is passionate about helping children 4 to 12 years old and their families who experience challenges and stress. She uses games, art and other engaging techniques to address behavioral issues at home and school, deal with life transitions, anger, grief, explore their feelings, process worries, fears, improve communication, make healthier decisions and improve their behavior and relationship with others.

Miri guides parents to restore balance and improve relationships with their children. She helps families resolve parenting challenges and learn effective ways to connect with and foster their children’s growth and development. She works with families from a holistic, strengths-based perspective to help children thrive and build resiliency.

Miri provides a safe and supportive environment allowing families to overcome challenges by building strengths leading to personal growth and support them through their journey of turning adversity and roadblocks into new possibilities.

Specialties

Miri works with children and families. She works with children to enhance their social relationships, coping skills, anger management, self esteem and facilitate adjustment to change.  Miri works with parents to help them navigate parenthood, development stages and transitions in childhood.

Modalities

Miri employs a variety of techniques and believes that each client is unique and tailors each session around the individual’s needs, style and personality using an integrative and holistic approach.

She believes in the power of human connection and uses Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Psychodynamic theory, Internal Family System, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, behavioral modification, play therapy, art therapy, and mindfulness.

Miri strives to bring an effective blend of caring, experience, trust and maximize outcomes to the counseling process in order to overcome personal barriers, find peace, balance and provide genuine healing.

Education

• Bachelor of Art – Human Services Fontbonne University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1995
• Master of Social Work – Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1997
  • Concentration: Mental Health
  • Specialization: Family Therapy

Licenses and Certificates of Completion

• LCSW VA #0904008552
• Reiki I &  II
• Nutritional and integrative interventions for mental health disorders
• 100 brain-changing techniques to integrate into your clinical practice
• Mindfulness-based stress reduction
• Online professionalism
• Self-care for behavioral health professionals
• Suicide assessment and prevention
• Childhood obesity – The role of mental health professionals
• Ethics for social work
• Grandparents raising children
• Nutrition Specialist Course (AASDN)
• Internal Family Systems Therapy
• Healing Touch (Level 1)
• Board approved LCSW clinical supervisor