About Michele
Michele Stolper is a licensed social worker who helps adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, and difficult life changes. She focuses on real concerns like relationship strain, compassion fatigue, and the isolation that can come with major transitions. Michele offers straightforward support in a calm, nonjudgmental way.
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people understand their patterns and build practical coping skills. Sessions often involve identifying unhelpful thoughts, experimenting with small behavioral changes, and strengthening emotional awareness.
Background and approach
Michele aims to make progress feel manageable and relevant to day-to-day life. Michele brings 14 years of clinical experience to her practice and has worked with people facing caregiving stress, cancer-related issues, fertility and hospice concerns, and challenges after separation or infidelity. She also supports those dealing with attachment questions, codependency, guilt, and a search for life purpose.
In sessions she focuses on concrete steps clients can use between meetings. That might include short experiments, communication strategies, or ways to reduce overwhelm during busy days. Her work centers on building resilience and clearer choices rather than quick fixes.
Michele is licensed in Florida as an LCSW and also holds a DC LICSW. She provides services in English and conducts sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules sessions according to the therapist's availability.
Approach and online care that fit your life
Two common evidence-based approaches she uses are cognitive-based methods and behavioral strategies. Cognitive-based work focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce worry and self-criticism. Behavioral strategies emphasize small action steps - scheduling pleasant activities, practicing communication skills, or doing brief exposure tasks to reduce avoidance and build confidence.She also draws on attachment-focused ideas to help people understand patterns in close relationships and how those patterns affect anxiety and connection. That work often involves noticing common triggers, trying new ways of relating, and strengthening emotional safety within individual therapy.
Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, explain options in everyday language, and adjust techniques based on what helps most. This makes therapy a collaborative process rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let you work face-to-face without travel, phone sessions can fit into a short break, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text messaging keeps momentum between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while still focusing on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, Florida, District of Columbia, Montana, South Dakota
- Languages
- English
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