Myriam Sanchez is a licensed clinical professional counselor and the owner of Your Family Wellness Village PLLC – a mental health private practice focusing on perinatal, couples, and families. Her small but mighty private practice group includes 3 employees and services over 60 clients a week through in-person and telehealth services. Other specialties include, faith-based therapy, OCD, grief, and trauma. In 2023, Myriam opened up Cohera LLC – a health and wellness community and coworking space for mental health, healthcare, and wellness providers. The Cohera community now comprises of over a doze independent businesses servicing the DuPage county through mental health, pre and post-natal doula, massage, and acupuncture services, as well as hosting several healthcare and wellness events each month.

Myriam obtained her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Adler University in 2012. Prior to launching her mental health practice, Myriam worked for 7 years in several settings. During those years, she was a clinical therapist and supervisor at a private practice, provided Maternal Mental Health consultations for patients in the Mother-Baby unit and for outpatient providers at Edward hospital, and led pregnancy and postpartum support groups. Myriam also previously worked in a therapeutic day school and in the PHP/IOP programs at Linden Oaks Outpatient. Her favorite populations to work with include expectant and new parents adjusting to parenthood, perinatal anxiety, depression and OCD, couples seeking help for intimacy and communication issues, as well as new parents needing support and guidance in their parenting skills.

When Myriam is not working on developing her businesses, she spends time running after her 9- and 7-year-old, perusing recipe books to meal-prep whenever she can, tries yoga or barre classes every now and then, and attempts to keep up with home chores. It is not easy navigating these ever-changing roles as working moms, but Myriam believes that by connecting to our supportive village around us, we can do it! Because, it truly does take a village!

For more information on Myriam’s business ventures, visit www.yourfamilywellnessvillage.com and www.wearecohera.com.

**There has been an edit regarding the Hormones and Mental Health CE training we will be offering that I referred to on the show. Hormone CE is March 7 from noon to 3:30pm presentation by Mandy Hahn perinatal psychiatrist and Myriam Sanchez perinatal therapist. The link to register is: https://heritageprofessional.thinkific.com/bundles/hormones-in-the-lifespan-bundle

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