About Michelle
Dr. Michelle Bailey helps people manage stress and anxiety with steady, practical support. She is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years working in mental health and a background in both counseling and education.
Dr. Bailey writes plainly and aims to make therapy feel manageable for worried parents and busy adults. She draws on approaches that focus on thoughts, values, and the present moment.
Sessions often include straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to reduce unhelpful thinking and build actions that matter to each person.
Background and approach
Client-centered ways of working make room for being heard and understood. Dr. Bailey is a United States Navy veteran who completed a doctoral degree in education and a master’s degree in counseling.
She holds a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential - LMHC - and a Washington state LMHC. Her career spans community, clinical, and educational settings across two decades. Her clinical interests include trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and family stress, and coping with life changes.
She also focuses on attachment concerns, caregiver stress, codependency, and self-esteem. In sessions she blends practical skill building with reflective conversation. That might mean working on concrete behavior changes one week and values-based goal setting the next.
Outside work she enjoys dancing, travel, laughing, and spending time with family and friends.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Bailey often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice their thoughts and choose valued actions. ACT focuses on accepting difficult feelings while committing to small, meaningful steps toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is another common tool she draws on to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new behaviors that reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then adjust methods so sessions feel useful and doable. That collaborative process helps people try different exercises and settle on what helps most for their daily life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for busy schedules and varied needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into work, family time, or travel while using ACT and CBT techniques in real life situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Washington
- Languages
- English
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