About Michelle
Michelle Boyles is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience. She practices in Florida and helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, mood concerns, and big life changes. She aims to give practical tools and clear steps so clients can manage day-to-day challenges better.
Michelle earned a Bachelor of Science in psychology from Penn State University and a Master of Social Work from Georgia State University.
Background and approach
She has held a Florida LCSW since 2012 and has been a master’s-level therapist since 2001. Her background includes inpatient crisis stabilization, residential settings, and outpatient therapy work. Across her career she has supported people coping with trauma and abuse, substance use concerns, mood disorders including depression and bipolar, and patterns of impulsivity or shame.
She also assists people struggling with relationship strain, caregiving stress, and life-purpose questions. Michelle focuses on building insight, teaching coping strategies, and offering straightforward education about symptoms and behavior. In sessions she draws on client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral and mindfulness tools.
She uses practical skills from dialectical behavior therapy and motivational interviewing when they fit a person’s goals. The work is collaborative: she listens, helps set goals, and introduces techniques clients can practice between sessions. Michelle offers several formats for remote contact and adapts her approach to what each person needs.
Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping people find clearer ways to manage emotions, reduce distress, and move forward.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Michelle often blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior therapy. Client-centered work means the therapist listens closely, reflects what matters to the client, and supports the client’s own goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Dialectical behavior therapy offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Michelle will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps. The collaboration includes trying exercises in session and setting small practice tasks between meetings to build new skills over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for full sessions and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send brief updates, ask questions between visits, or use a lower-effort option for checking in. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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