About Michelle
Michelle Gross is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with twenty years of experience. She helps people cope with anxiety, stress, grief, depression, ADHD, and work-related concerns. Michelle combines practical strategies and everyday language so parents and busy adults can use what they learn right away.
She draws on counseling, coaching, and education work in schools, universities, corporations, and independent practice. That background helps her match tools to each person’s life and routines.
Background and approach
She emphasizes self-awareness, honest connection, and small steps that turn insight into action. Michelle often helps people with attention and executive function challenges to build systems that reduce overwhelm. She supports people working through life changes, career decisions, caregiving stress, and complicated family dynamics.
Sessions focus on concrete skills such as planning, prioritizing, and problem solving. Her approach mixes client-centered conversation with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness skills. She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy and motivational interviewing to strengthen coping and decision making.
The goal is always practical change that fits the client’s values and daily life. Michelle holds a Master’s in Counseling and an MBA from Wake Forest University and is an NC LCMHC - licensed clinical mental health counselor. She brings a calm, straightforward style and a focus on tools that people can apply between sessions.
Approach and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s strengths and priorities. It gives space for people to describe what matters most and helps shape goals that feel true to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to reduce anxious or depressive patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds concrete tools for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Michelle works with each person to pick techniques that match goals, needs, and daily routines. She adapts methods over time so the plan stays useful and realistic for the client’s life. Collaboration helps ensure the work feels relevant and doable rather than overwhelming.
Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for ongoing tracking, brief coaching, or quick skill reminders between sessions. These options offer flexibility for different rhythms of life and different ways people prefer to connect.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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