About Michal
Michal Collier is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with 21 years of experience. She provides counseling through online formats and in independent practice, and she has a long history working in mental health settings. Michal focuses on common life stresses and emotional struggles such as anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns.
She uses straightforward, practical methods to help people manage symptoms and cope with change. Sessions tend to focus on everyday problems - handling stress, improving communication, rebuilding trust, or managing mood shifts.
Background and approach
Michal draws on approaches that emphasize how past attachments shape present relationships and how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings. Clients can expect a compassionate, collaborative style that aims to match strategies to their needs. Michal often blends cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and attachment-informed ideas to help people build tools they can use between sessions.
She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy and solution-focused work when they fit a person’s goals. Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns beyond anxiety and depression, including grief, trauma and abuse, parenting and caregiver stress, workplace strain, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
Michal’s background includes agency work and independent practice, which she says informed how she supports individuals from varied backgrounds. For those who prefer remote care, she offers multiple online options. People who are curious about starting can complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session to see how the fit feels.
Approaches that translate to online care
Michal commonly uses attachment-based ideas to help people see how early relationship patterns affect current connections. That work focuses on improving communication, trust, and the ways people respond when they feel hurt or abandoned.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence mood. CBT offers concrete strategies for managing anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Mindfulness therapy is another tool she uses to help people notice their moment-to-moment experience and reduce reactivity.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Michal will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. She adjusts methods over time so the plan matches progress and changing needs.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a camera feels uncomfortable. Live chat or text-based messaging can help with quick check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing support between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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