About Michele
Michele Walker is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) in North Carolina who helps people manage anxiety and everyday stress. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to ease symptoms and improve daily functioning. Michele keeps sessions straightforward and compassionate so worried parents can follow along easily.
She uses a client-centered approach that treats the person, not just the problem. That means listening first, then working together to set clear goals.
Background and approach
Michele combines that with brief, actionable strategies so clients leave sessions with things to try between meetings. Her background spans eleven years of professional experience supporting people through trauma, depression, self-esteem struggles, and relationship challenges. She also works with concerns around parenting, career changes, grief, ADHD, and issues linked to gender and sexual identity.
Michele is comfortable addressing less common topics like kink and codependency when they come up in therapy. In sessions she blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools alongside client-centered conversation. She also uses EMDR when trauma memories are a focus and Motivational Interviewing to help with ambivalence and change.
Psychoeducation is part of her style so clients better understand their reactions and coping options. Michele aims to help people build clearer communication, manage emotional triggers, and reconnect with what matters to them. Her style is collaborative, down-to-earth, and goal oriented.
She works with each person to find practical steps toward greater stability and meaning.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy is about listening and shaping sessions around each person's needs. It helps when someone wants a steady, supportive conversation to sort out feelings and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety and low mood active, offering practical homework and exercises to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review your goals and preferences and suggest techniques that fit those aims. You and the therapist decide together whether to emphasize CBT tools, DBT skills, EMDR for trauma work, or a mix of methods to match what you need most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls let you keep face-to-face conversation while fitting sessions into a busy day. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief updates, ongoing encouragement, and practicing skills between meetings. These options help people keep therapy consistent around work, parenting, and life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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