About Michelle
Michelle Goehring is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings 12 years of clinical experience to her practice in Louisiana. She focuses on practical support for people dealing with stress and anxiety, depression, eating concerns, and struggles with self-worth. Michelle uses straightforward conversation to help people make sense of what they're facing and decide on next steps.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Sessions aim to identify what is most troubling now and then build small, manageable changes.
Background and approach
She emphasizes honest talk and concrete tools rather than jargon-heavy explanations. Michelle draws from approaches that include cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance-focused strategies, mindfulness, and skills-based methods for managing strong emotions. She blends these to fit each person's situation instead of following a fixed script.
That helps people address panic, mood swings, sleep problems, or addictive behaviors in ways that feel realistic. She also supports people working through life transitions, relationship problems, body image concerns, and family of origin issues. Common topics she addresses include parenting stress, communication problems, guilt and shame, and finding purpose after change.
Michelle aims to make therapy a place to test new coping strategies and build confidence over time. Michelle conducts sessions in English and offers a range of online formats. She encourages prospective clients to start by answering a short questionnaire so a good match can be made and scheduling can move forward.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, avoidance, and finding direction after life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavioral changes to reduce distress, which often helps with panic, depression, and sleep problems. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and build present-moment awareness, helpful for stress and emotion regulation.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Michelle collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. Together they adjust tools and pacing as needs shift so therapy stays relevant and workable.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller session time, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and maintain steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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