About Michelle
Michelle Curry is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and life changes. She focuses on emotional well-being and offers steady support without judgment. Michelle works to make the first steps toward help feel less overwhelming and more manageable.
Her approach centers on listening closely and offering practical tools. She helps people talk through trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, and challenges like depression or bipolar concerns.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing parenting stress, caregiving strain, career setbacks, and issues around body image or eating. Michelle has long experience working in Illinois settings with a wide range of life circumstances. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and tailors sessions to the person in front of her.
Sessions focus on understanding patterns, building coping skills, and trying small changes that add up over time. She aims to create a respectful space where people can name what they are feeling and practice new ways of responding. For those managing ADHD, compassion fatigue, or codependency, she works to clarify challenges and set realistic goals.
Progress is paced to each person's needs. If someone is feeling stuck after trauma, struggling with relationships, or overwhelmed by anxiety, Michelle offers steady guidance and concrete strategies. She encourages patience with the process and partners with clients as they work toward clearer thinking and better day-to-day coping.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear goals and practical tools. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thought patterns and try new ways of thinking and acting; this is useful for anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. Another approach centers on processing trauma and building safety in daily life by working slowly through distressing memories and teaching grounding strategies to reduce overwhelm.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle collaborates with each person to decide which techniques fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adjusts methods over time and checks in regularly to make sure the plan still feels helpful and realistic.
Online therapy lets people connect in ways that suit their routine. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or when typing is easier. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into busy lives and to keep continuity of care when in-person visits are difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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