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Miranda Bayard-Clark
Licensed Professional Counselor
Becoming a parent can change your relationship, your identity, and the way you experience everyday life. Miranda Bayard-Clark helps individuals and couples navigate pregnancy, postpartum, and parenthood with support for both their emotional well-being and their relationships.
Meet Miranda
Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology – Lewis & Clark College (2011)
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology – Western Washington University (2004)
Licensed Professional Counselor – State of Oregon
Gottman Method Couples Therapy – Level 2 Training
Bringing Baby Home Certified Educator
Gottman Seven Principles Educator
Miranda supports people who feel overwhelmed, disconnected from their partners, or unlike themselves during major life transitions. Her work gives clients space to explore the experiences they’re carrying while developing practical ways to communicate, connect, and care for themselves.
Experience You Can Trust
Individual and couples therapy in private practice since 2012
Support for pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, anxiety, and depression
Relationship preparation for new and expectant parents
Facilitation of Bringing Baby Home groups
Previous clinical work treating anxiety, OCD, and trauma
Host of the Love After Lullabies podcast
Miranda’s background includes private practice, specialized anxiety treatment, and youth counseling. Today, her work centers on helping individuals and couples navigate reproductive and parenting transitions while strengthening their connection to themselves and each other.
Therapeutic Approach
Miranda offers a collaborative, trauma-informed approach grounded in attachment and an understanding of how life transitions affect individuals and relationships.
For couples, therapy may focus on recurring conflict, emotional distance, changes in intimacy, or the strain of sharing parenting responsibilities. For individuals, sessions offer space to explore anxiety, grief, identity changes, and the emotional demands of becoming or being a parent.
Together, Miranda and her clients work toward greater understanding, more helpful communication, and ways to feel supported through challenging seasons.
Specialties Include
Pregnancy and postpartum anxiety and depression
Adjustment to parenthood and changes in identity
Couples therapy and relationship stress
Communication difficulties and recurring conflict
Resentment and unequal division of responsibilities
Intimacy and sexual connection after having children
Fertility stress and family-building decisions, including known donors
Pregnancy loss and grief
Relationship preparation before marriage or parenthood
Modalities Used
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy
Trauma-informed and somatic-informed approaches
Miranda draws on these approaches to help clients understand their emotional needs, recognize relationship patterns, and practice new ways of responding to themselves and one another.
Supporting Relationships Through Parenthood
As a Bringing Baby Home Certified Educator and Gottman Seven Principles Educator, Miranda helps couples prepare for the changes that parenting can bring. She also supports parents who want to reconnect after finding themselves feeling more like co-parenting roommates than partners.
Her podcast, Love After Lullabies, explores relationships after becoming parents through conversations with guests and professionals.
Beyond the Therapy Room
Miranda enjoys baking sourdough bread for her community. She finds comfort in the process of baking and joy in sharing something she has made with others.
Is Miranda the Right Fit for You?
Whether you’re preparing for parenthood, navigating a difficult postpartum season, or hoping to feel closer to your partner, Miranda welcomes the opportunity to connect. Reach out to ask questions and explore whether her approach feels right for you.