About Michele
Michele Howard is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She supports those dealing with relationship strain, family conflict, intimacy concerns, and symptoms of depression. Michele aims to make the first step feel manageable for people who are nervous about starting therapy.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about painful thoughts and strong emotions. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer communication rather than medical labels.
Background and approach
Michele encourages simple skills that can be used between sessions to ease panic, reduce worry, and improve daily functioning. Michele draws from several therapy approaches to match what a person needs. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot and change unhelpful thoughts.
She brings in Attachment-Based ideas to address patterns that come from close relationships. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients identify values and take small actions toward them. Her work also covers panic disorder and panic attacks, issues around abandonment and attachment, and challenges tied to pregnancy and childbirth.
Michele pays attention to how communication patterns affect relationships and offers ways to repair them. She blends practical tools with gentle reflection so people can try new ways of coping. With three years of professional experience as an LMFT licensed in North Carolina, Michele offers sessions in English.
She encourages people to begin with a short match questionnaire to find a good fit and schedule a first appointment.
Online approaches for anxiety and relationships
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that match those values. It supports coping with anxiety by teaching acceptance of uncomfortable feelings while moving toward meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting patterns of thought and behavior that feed worry and panic. It uses clear exercises and homework to reduce symptoms and change how a person reacts to stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michele will collaborate with clients to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. That might mean combining ACT with CBT techniques, or adding attachment-focused ideas when relationship patterns are central. The plan adjusts as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a short break with lower bandwidth, live chat offers quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different formats to see what works best.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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