About Michelle
Michelle Homa is a licensed social worker with 24 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She works with clients who are coping with life changes, mood concerns such as bipolar disorder, and challenges around anger and relationships. Her approach is practical and person-centered, focusing on what will make life feel more livable day to day.
Michelle keeps sessions straightforward and goal-oriented. She helps people understand patterns that keep them stuck and test small changes that make a difference.
Background and approach
Conversations often include clearer communication skills, ways to manage intense feelings, and steps to restore routine after loss or upheaval. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques suited to each person's needs. That can mean working on emotion regulation, improving problem-solving, or addressing attachment and family of origin issues.
Michelle also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiving stress, abandonment concerns, and identity issues related to LGBT experiences. Her practice pays attention to practical barriers and strengths. Michelle helps people find coping strategies that fit their daily life, whether that means pacing activities around chronic pain or building boundaries in difficult relationships.
She emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes. Sessions are offered in English and Michelle accepts clients in Michigan as well as international clients. Her professional credential is LMSW, which stands for Licensed Master Social Worker, and she brings long-term clinical experience to each person's concerns.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage anxiety, depression, trauma, and interpersonal difficulties. One common approach focuses on learning emotion regulation and coping skills to reduce distress and improve daily functioning; this helps when feelings become overwhelming or interfere with work and relationships. Another approach targets communication and relationship patterns by identifying unhelpful expectations and practicing clearer, more direct ways of relating to others; this helps with family of origin issues, caregiving strain, and conflict.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Michelle collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She reviews progress regularly and adjusts techniques so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more accessible. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper discussion, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text sessions suit shorter check-ins or days when typing feels easier. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules, across time zones, and for those who prefer not to travel for appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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