About Myrna
Myrna Peterson-Weimann offers calm, practical support for people coping with family and parenting strain. She focuses on helping individuals manage anger, boost self-esteem, and handle attention-related challenges like ADHD. Her approach aims to make daily life more manageable for people feeling overwhelmed by relationships and household stress.
She draws on two decades of experience practicing as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, in Florida. Sessions are organized around each person's goals, with straightforward conversations and clear steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her manner is respectful and compassionate, and she adapts her style to what the client needs most. Myrna uses a blend of well-known techniques to address mood, behavior, and communication. That can mean breaking problems into smaller parts, trying new ways to respond under stress, or strengthening family routines that reduce conflict.
She helps people set realistic goals and track small changes over time. For parents, Myrna focuses on concrete strategies that ease household tension and improve cooperation. For adults managing anger or low confidence, she helps identify patterns that hold them back and builds new skills to respond differently.
With ADHD-related concerns she works on structure, consistency, and practical habit changes. Myrna invites people to take the first step by answering a short questionnaire and scheduling a session. Her work is goal-focused and collaborative, aiming to create useful tools clients can use long after sessions end.
How evidence-based techniques translate online
Many of the methods Myrna uses focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and building practical skills. Cognitive-based techniques help people notice thought patterns that increase worry or anger, and then practice different, more helpful responses; these approaches work well for mood, anger, and self-esteem concerns. Skills-based strategies, drawn from behavioral approaches, teach concrete tools for managing emotion, improving routines, and handling ADHD-related tasks, such as breaking tasks into steps and creating consistent schedules.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Myrna will talk with each person about goals, daily challenges, and preferences, and together they will try methods that feel most useful. She treats the process as a collaboration and adjusts plans if something is not working.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and learning new skills with visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions, do brief homework, or update progress without scheduling a full call. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English