Miriam attended Brown University, where she studied education and graduated with Magna cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors. She holds two master's degrees: one from the University of Oxford, where she studied higher education, and one from the Brown School at Washington University in Saint Louis, where she studied social work as a Dean's Scholar and graduated with Phi Alpha honors. As part of her studies in social work, Miriam trained at the Saint Louis Psychoanalytic Institute as a psychodynamic psychotherapist. She also holds a clinical certificate in psychodynamic psychotherapy from Bryn Mawr College's Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. When she's not seeing patients, Miriam is working toward her Ph.D. in counseling at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.