About Michele
Michele Bowen is a Licensed Master Social Worker and Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addiction, process trauma and loss, and build healthier self-esteem. Michele creates a calm space where thoughts and feelings can be spoken without judgment.
She aims to meet people where they are and to support practical steps toward a more satisfying life.
Background and approach
Michele draws on a mix of talking, grounding, and body-centered methods to help people feel steadier day to day. Her background includes long experience in behavioral health settings and work with trauma, dissociation, and co-occurring substance concerns.
She uses techniques from Attachment-Based Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and Mindfulness Therapy to shape sessions around each person's needs. Michele often blends skills training with trauma-focused work and mindfulness practices. She may introduce breathing, simple somatic exercises, or short meditations alongside talk therapy.
The goal is to build skills that can be used between sessions to manage anxiety, mood shifts, and cravings. People who come to Michele typically want practical tools and steady support while they work through grief, overwhelm, or persistent worry. She works collaboratively, helping set clear goals and adjusting methods as progress is made.
How Michele’s approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. In sessions this looks like talking through relationship worries and learning new ways to connect or set boundaries. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and panic. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches coping skills for intense emotions and helps people tolerate distress while building better communication.Michele treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust if something is not working. The plan is shaped around what the client prefers and what helps them make steady progress.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to share quick updates, practice skills between sessions, or fit support into a busy day. These options provide flexibility so therapy can fit work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dissociation
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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