Miranda Fassbender, LPC

Miranda Fassbender is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Wisconsin. She brings eight years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and eating and body-image concerns. Miranda aims to make the first steps toward change feel doable and supported.

She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk about hard things. Sessions are meant to be straightforward and practical. Miranda listens first, then helps people try out new ways of thinking and acting that fit their life.

Her work draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered approaches, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools. That means she uses simple strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts, build coping skills, and strengthen emotion regulation. Mindfulness and motivational conversations are used when they fit a person's goals.

Miranda often helps people facing life transitions, grief, relationship strains, workplace stress, caregiver burnout, and guilt or shame. She also supports concerns tied to trauma, post-traumatic stress, addictions, and compassion fatigue. Her focus includes women's issues, LGBT concerns, and issues related to first responders.

In sessions she helps people map concrete steps they can try between meetings. The goal is to boost self-compassion and practical problem-solving. Miranda encourages clients to set realistic goals and to notice small changes as progress.

Online approaches that focus on skills and change

Miranda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT focuses on testing unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and low mood. She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which prioritizes a respectful, listening-first relationship so people feel heard and can set their own goals. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used to strengthen emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness when strong emotions get in the way.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Miranda talks with each person about their goals and preferences, then adapts techniques that fit their daily life. Together they try different strategies and adjust the plan based on what actually helps.

Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different routines. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation and skill practice, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, on-the-go support, and people who prefer typed communication. These options aim to make attending therapy more flexible for work, caregiving, and busy schedules.