About Michelle
Michelle Flynn is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people who feel stuck by anxiety, stress, or big life changes. She uses a relaxed, down-to-earth style to help clients name what is happening and build useful coping skills. Her voice often mixes a little humor with steady support to make sessions easier to sit with.
She focuses on anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, bipolar, ADHD, panic, and related concerns like eating issues, anger, and intimacy challenges.
Background and approach
Michelle also works with people navigating family roles, parenting pressures, relationship stress, and issues related to sexual orientation. Domestic violence and post-traumatic stress are additional areas she addresses. Michelle draws on practical methods such as cognitive behavioral work, trauma-focused strategies, motivational interviewing, and brief solution-focused techniques.
In session she helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns, practice manageable behavior changes, and set small goals that build momentum. Sessions aim to be direct, concrete, and tailored to what each person needs right now. She emphasizes listening first and matching the approach to each client's story.
Michelle describes therapy as collaborative - she and the client decide what to try and when to adjust. Her own experience with a physical disability also shapes the way she connects with people facing long-term health or access challenges. Michelle aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental atmosphere where people can make sense of confusing feelings.
She helps clients sort the pieces of their lives so they can feel more steady and in control.
How online approaches and methods can help
Michelle commonly uses cognitive behavioral work to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT breaks problems into clear steps so clients can practice small changes that reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.She also uses trauma-focused strategies to help people process difficult events and reduce their impact on everyday life. This approach focuses on understanding what happened, learning coping skills, and creating a plan to manage reminders and triggers.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs and goals. Together they try techniques, review what helps, and adjust the plan as things change.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier when you need a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and follow-up between sessions more convenient, and they can fit into a busy day without commuting. These options make it easier to keep continuity and practice skills in real life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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