About Michele
Michele Koenes is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and life changes. She offers calm, straightforward support for everyday struggles like sleep problems, grief, relationship concerns, and managing mood disorders. Michele works to match pace and approach to each person’s needs so they feel heard and understood from the first session.
She brings 11 years of clinical experience across inpatient and outpatient settings. That background gives her practical experience with trauma, addiction, bipolar disorder, and chronic health challenges.
Background and approach
Michele has also worked as a litigation attorney and a teacher, which shaped her clarity, listening skills, and ability to explain options plainly. Michele uses approaches that focus on values, behavior, and relationships. She draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters and build manageable habits.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to notice unhelpful thinking and test new ways of responding. Attachment-based ideas guide work on patterns that come from close relationships, while client-centered and dialectical skills help people feel accepted as they learn new coping strategies. Sessions are collaborative and paced to match each person’s comfort level.
She holds a Master of Social Work and practices as an LMSW and LCSW. Michele provides services to people in Michigan and conducts sessions in English via video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
How Michele’s approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people identify their values and take small actions that align with what matters. Online sessions can focus on practical exercises and short behavioral experiments between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses straightforward techniques to test new beliefs and habits during and between sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michele listens to your goals, tries tools that suit your situation, and adjusts methods based on what helps. She guides people in choosing strategies that fit their daily life and comfort level so therapy remains useful and manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can fit quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other commitments while still using proven therapeutic techniques.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, California, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
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