Maria Miranda, LMSW

Maria Miranda is a New York state licensed social worker with experience in providing case management and supportive counseling to older adults and their family caregivers. Maria uses a strengths-based, emotion-focused, and holistic approach to help individuals develop healthy coping skills, work through limiting beliefs and work through trauma associated with chronic illness, disability, and caregiving. Maria dedicates herself to creating a safe space for individuals to express their full range of thoughts and feelings to heal. Maria also draws from her lifetime experience as a family caregiver to emphasize that family caregivers are not alone in their experience.

To complement this work, Maria is also a fierce and active family caregiver and aging/disability advocate with advocacy ties with the American Association of Caregiving Youth, The National Alliance for Caregiving, Caring Across Generations and Caring Majority Rising. In her advocacy, Maria dedicates herself to represent the individuals that she supports to change ineffective and harmful systematic practices.

Maria received her bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Fordham University and her master’s in social work degree from Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service.