About Michelle
Michelle Howlett is a licensed clinical social worker with nine years of practice. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and struggles with self-esteem. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people feel steadier and more able to cope.
Michelle uses clear, practical methods in sessions. She helps clients name painful feelings and develop doable skills to manage them. This can include pacing big changes, working on sleep and daily routines, and addressing addiction-related worries.
Background and approach
People often come for help with relationship strain, career stress, or life transitions. Michelle also supports those dealing with caregiver strain, aging and geriatric concerns, and end-of-life or hospice related matters. She pays attention to isolation, guilt, and the special stresses veterans and members of the LGBT community may face.
Sessions focus on building self-awareness and small, measurable steps forward. Michelle combines client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness. She emphasizes self-compassion while helping clients try new coping strategies.
Her work also addresses compassion fatigue and burnout, especially for people in caregiving roles. Michelle aims to help clients find balance and regain energy for things that matter. She encourages steady progress and practical change over time.
How Michelle blends approach and online care
Client-centered therapy begins by listening to what matters most to the client and shaping sessions around their goals and values. It helps people feel heard and steer work toward things they want to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and sleep. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills for intense emotions and relationship stress.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Michelle will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit their situation, and adjust the plan as needed. The work is gradual and tailored, with regular check-ins about what is helping and what needs to change.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging lets people fit care into busy lives. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone works when bandwidth is low or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging can support quick reflections, ongoing coaching between sessions, or a flexible way to stay engaged without being on camera. These options make it easier to use therapeutic tools consistently and build momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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