About Michele
Michele Gouin is a licensed social worker with 25 years of clinical experience who helps people address anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship concerns. She offers calm, respectful care and aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable for busy families. Michele focuses on common struggles such as family conflict, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, and low self-esteem.
She also works with people facing grief, career transitions, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, and intimacy-related issues.
Background and approach
Her practice includes many related concerns like adoption and foster care, caregiving stress, blended family issues, and end-of-life counseling. Sessions are shaped around each person's needs. Michele uses conversation and practical strategies to help people reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.
She tailors goals and techniques so they fit a client's life and priorities rather than using one fixed method. Michele holds a Licensed Master Social Worker credential and is also a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She is licensed in Michigan and Nevada and brings long-term experience to her work with individuals seeking change and clearer direction.
People describe her approach as caring and direct. She emphasizes respectful listening, collaborative planning, and steady support during difficult moments. Michele encourages small steps that build stronger coping and better relationships over time.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a trusting conversation where the client sets goals and the therapist follows the client's lead. It helps people feel heard and understood while they work through personal challenges.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses clear steps to identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and mood management through practical exercises and skill building.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on how emotions shape relationships and attachment. It can help people improve connection, repair hurts, and understand emotional patterns that affect closeness.
Michele will work with each person to find the right mix of these approaches. She sees the choice of method as a collaborative decision based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video can allow face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and stay consistent with care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Nevada, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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