About Michelle
Michelle Burdick is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She uses practical, straightforward methods to help clients facing life changes, career questions, grief, and low self-esteem. Michelle offers calm, focused support for people feeling stuck or overwhelmed.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Mindfulness techniques are used to bring attention to the present moment and reduce reactivity.
Background and approach
Existential ideas help people clarify what matters most and find meaning during transitions. Michelle also applies solution-focused strategies and motivational interviewing to set short-term goals and build momentum. She can work with people navigating cancer or fertility issues, and those coping with social anxiety or phobias.
Sessions aim to be practical and goal-oriented, with steps that can be used between meetings. With three years of counseling experience and prior work in human resources, Michelle blends career-focused knowledge with counseling skills. That background can help when addressing job stress, interviewing concerns, networking worries, or decisions about career change.
She helps people prepare for interviews and build confidence when seeking new roles. Therapy usually begins with clear goals and simple exercises to test what helps. Michelle prefers a collaborative stance: she and the client try approaches together and adjust based on what works.
Sessions are offered in English and can be held online in multiple formats.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Michelle commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and test thoughts that increase anxiety or low mood. CBT focuses on small experiments and practical changes in thinking and behavior, which can be practiced between sessions. She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy to teach attention and breathing skills that reduce reactivity and help with stress. These techniques often fit easily into brief daily routines and can be guided during online meetings.Finding the best approach is part of the work. Michelle will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods together and adjust them over time. That collaborative process helps ensure sessions focus on what actually helps the client in their day-to-day life.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging for flexibility. Video calls allow visual cues and deeper conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing brief reflections between meetings. These options can make it simpler to fit sessions around work, medical care, or busy schedules while keeping therapy consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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