Miranda Shumate, LCSW, CSW

Miranda Shumate is an LCSW and CSW licensed in Illinois and Colorado with ten years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, and major life changes. Miranda also focuses on feelings of guilt and shame, loneliness, mood disorders, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and life purpose concerns.

She has worked in community mental health, crisis intervention, and private practice settings. Miranda uses plain conversation to help people name what feels most difficult. She pairs talking through problems with practical tools to manage day-to-day symptoms.

Her approach draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and build actions that match a person’s values. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships and early experiences affect current patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are offered when someone needs clear techniques for regulating intense emotions.

Sessions focus on what is happening now and what can realistically change. Miranda helps people try small, specific steps between sessions so progress is visible. She works collaboratively, checking in on what helps and what does not, and adjusts plans as needed.

People who come feeling stuck often want help sorting priorities after work, relationship, or health changes. Miranda aims to make those conversations straightforward, practical, and directly tied to the next steps someone can take.

How Miranda uses specific approaches in online work