About Michelle
Michelle Davis is a licensed social worker in Michigan with 13 years of clinical experience. She uses a practical, person-focused style to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She offers straightforward conversations.
Sessions focus on identifying strengths, learning new skills, and making small changes that add up. Michelle keeps plans simple and rooted in everyday life so parents and busy adults can fit work into their schedules.
Background and approach
Michelle often combines client-centered listening with proven behavior-focused techniques. That means she listens first, then uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and other approaches to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. She also brings tools to help with emotion regulation and communication when needed.
Her background includes work with people facing addictions, grief, intimacy concerns, sleep and eating issues, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and complex family problems. She also has experience with adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, autism and Asperger Syndrome, and caregiver stress. Michelle frames therapy as a collaborative process.
She helps people set clear goals and measures progress together. The aim is practical relief - better sleep, fewer panic moments, clearer communication, or stronger coping during life changes.
How practical therapies translate to online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building on a person's strengths to guide change. In an online session this means the therapist starts by asking about your day, goals, and what already works for you, then shapes conversation around those strengths to set clear, practical steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. Online CBT sessions often include short experiments or worksheets to try between meetings, helping with anxiety, sleep issues, or low mood in measurable ways.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss options like client-centered work or CBT and choose what fits your needs, goals, and comfort. That collaborative process can be adjusted over time as progress is tracked and goals change.
Online formats offer real practical benefits. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and eye contact. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between appointments, share brief updates, or have a shorter focused conversation during a busy day. These options make therapy more flexible for parents and working adults who need to fit sessions into a packed schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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