About Michelle
Michelle Howard is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Indiana with 16 years of professional experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and depression. Michelle speaks plain language and aims to make the first steps toward help feel manageable and clear.
She centers sessions on each person's lived experience and strengths. Michelle helps clients notice what already works for them and builds on those resources to address current problems.
Background and approach
She uses practical strategies to reduce symptoms like panic, social anxiety, and mood shifts while also addressing feelings of guilt, shame, or abandonment. In sessions she focuses on clear communication and problem solving. Conversations often include ways to manage intense emotions, improve communication patterns, and lower daily stress.
Michelle also addresses trauma-related symptoms such as post-traumatic stress and panic attacks in ways suited to each person’s needs. Her approach is collaborative. She invites people to set goals and tries methods that fit their life and schedule.
Michelle offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make ongoing care more workable for busy routines. If someone is ready to begin, the usual next step is to complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule a first appointment. Michelle recognizes that starting therapy takes courage and aims to make the process as straightforward as possible.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Michelle draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on symptom reduction and skill-building. One approach centers on managing anxiety and panic through gradual exposure and coping skills training. This involves practicing manageable steps to face feared situations and learning breathing and grounding techniques to reduce immediate symptoms.Another approach emphasizes processing trauma-related reactions and improving everyday functioning. Sessions may include careful, paced conversations about past events, combined with strategies to decrease flashbacks, nightmares, and hypervigilance. These methods aim to help people regain a sense of control over daily life.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Michelle works with each person to identify goals and tries methods that match their needs and preferences. She adjusts the plan over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit help into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging offer brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options provide flexibility so people can keep continuity of care around work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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