About Michele
Michele Lewis is a licensed social worker who helps people facing anxiety, grief, trauma, and major life changes. She speaks plainly and focuses on real, practical steps people can use right away. Michele brings a calm, accepting presence that aims to make hard conversations easier to begin.
She holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Kansas and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from William Jewell College.
Background and approach
Michele is licensed as an LISW in Iowa and as an LCSW in Missouri, and she has been practicing for 26 years. Her long experience includes work with grief, caregiving strain, aging concerns, and chronic illness. Michele blends several proven approaches to match each person’s needs.
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking, mindfulness to reduce stress, and client-centered methods to create space for people to be heard. She also draws from emotion-focused ideas when relationships and attachment show up as issues. In sessions she helps clients build skills for handling anxiety, managing mood, and coping with loss.
She encourages small experiments and practical tools that fit daily life. Michele also supports people navigating career shifts, identity questions, and caregiver stress. Her sessions are offered through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules.
She offers evenings and weekend times to make therapy easier to arrange around busy lives.
How Michele’s approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values. It helps with anxiety, avoidance, and finding motivation during life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce worry and low mood. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Client-centered therapy centers the conversation on the person’s experience, giving space for honest expression and emotional processing that can improve self-understanding and confidence.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Michele collaborates with each person to pick strategies that match their goals and daily life. She adapts techniques over time so clients can try different ways of working and keep what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people have an in-depth session with face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work on anxiety, grief, or caregiver stress from wherever it works best for the client.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Iowa
- Languages
- English
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