About Michele
Michele McShea is a licensed clinical social worker with 19 years of experience helping people face anxiety, stress, depression, relationship struggles, and trauma. She practices in Illinois and works with individuals, couples, and groups to build stronger coping skills and greater emotional balance. Her work centers on practical steps and honest conversation.
Michele helps people spot patterns that keep them stuck and teaches tools to change those patterns. Sessions often mix insight about past experiences with hands-on strategies for today.
Background and approach
She uses a variety of approaches depending on what a person needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Psychodynamic work looks at how early relationships shape current feelings.
Solution-focused techniques highlight small, achievable changes to move forward. Michele also draws from existential ideas to help people find meaning when life feels confusing, and she uses hypnotherapy when appropriate to support deeper relaxation and focus. Her aim is to blend methods so each person gets practical help and a clearer sense of direction.
People come to her for issues like grief, addiction, intimacy concerns, body image, codependency, and family of origin wounds. She emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes, and she supports clients as they build confidence and healthier ways of relating to themselves and others.
Approach-driven online therapy for practical change
Many clients find Cognitive Behavioral Therapy useful because it focuses on clear links between thoughts, feelings, and actions, and it provides concrete exercises to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Psychodynamic Therapy helps people understand how early relationships and past experiences shape current reactions, which can bring lasting insight into recurring problems.Hypnotherapy can be used to support deep relaxation and focused attention, often helping with anxiety, trauma symptoms, and habit change. Michele will discuss these approaches and help decide which ones fit a person's needs and goals. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process where the therapist and client try methods, check how they feel, and adjust the plan together.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video works well for in-depth conversation and nonverbal cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text messaging helps with ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep consistent progress over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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