About Michele
Michele Lescard is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship difficulties, and parenting challenges. She brings a calm, practical approach and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed. She listens without judgment and focuses on what a person wants to change.
Michele uses clear goals and simple tools so people can try ideas between sessions.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and direct with attention to everyday life demands, like sleep problems, work stress, or family conflict. With 15 years of practice, Michele draws from several approaches that fit real-life problems. She blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques to spot thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going.
Mindfulness helps people notice what they are feeling in the moment without getting swept away. Michele also uses emotionally focused methods when relationship patterns or attachment concerns are part of the problem. Motivational interviewing is part of her toolkit when someone needs help finding reasons to change or building small steps forward.
These methods are chosen to match each person’s pace and goals. She completed a Master of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds an LCSW in Florida. Michele lives in Florida and has experience working with issues such as trauma, addictions, chronic illness, adoption and foster care, and caregiving stress.
She aims to help people build a toolbox of coping strategies and uncover strengths as they move toward better days.
How Michele’s Approaches Work Online
Michele commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques in online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening carefully and reflecting what matters most to the person, which helps clarify goals and priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts and actions influence mood and behavior, and it provides simple exercises to try between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve sleep.She also draws on emotionally focused ideas when relationship patterns or attachment concerns come up. That approach helps identify emotion-driven cycles and guides people toward new ways of relating and coping. Together these methods give practical options for handling stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Michele collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. She adjusts pace and practice based on what feels manageable, so the plan grows from small, achievable steps.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a lunch break. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, quick coping prompts, or when typing helps someone organize thoughts. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care around work, family, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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