About Michelle
Dr. Michelle Blake is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage anxiety, grief, depression, stress, and major life changes. She aims to make the first step feel less overwhelming by offering steady support and practical ways to cope.
She keeps sessions focused and straightforward. Conversations center on what is most troubling right now and on small, doable changes that make daily life easier. She encourages open talk about feelings and thoughts without judgment so clients can begin to feel more in control.
Background and approach
Her background includes 15 years of clinical practice and earlier work in higher education. She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, listed as LCSW, in Tennessee and Indiana. That mix of settings informs a balanced, down-to-earth style.
Dr. Blake uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person’s lead and build a trusting working relationship. She also draws on Psychodynamic Therapy to help people notice patterns that keep causing pain.
Together these approaches help address grief, relationship strain, self-esteem problems, and mood challenges. Sessions often include talk, reflection, and practical steps toward coping with stress or career and life transitions. The pace is set by the client, and goals are revisited as needs change.
Dr. Blake works with people from many backgrounds and pays attention to multicultural concerns and caregiver stress when they come up.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It involves listening closely, following the client's concerns, and shaping sessions around what the client feels is most important. This approach is helpful for anxiety, grief, and relationship worries because it centers the client's experience.Psychodynamic Therapy looks at recurring patterns and how past experiences affect present feelings and behavior. Talking about these patterns can clarify why certain situations trigger strong reactions and can help reduce their hold over time. This approach often supports people dealing with long-standing mood issues or complex grief.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and try different ways of working until a comfortable fit is found. Adjustments are made as needs shift over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions that benefit from face-to-face interaction, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging work for quick check-ins, brief updates, or when someone prefers shorter, written exchanges. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule and to maintain continuity of care when in-person visits are not practical.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, Indiana
- Languages
- English
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