About Michelle
Michelle Lakefield is an LPC with more than 20 years of practice based in New Jersey. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress or anxiety and guides them through difficult life changes. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at making sessions feel calm and doable for a worried parent reading on a phone.
Michelle creates space for clients to speak openly about what matters to them. Sessions focus on real problems like relationship strain, grief, anger, or low self-esteem.
Background and approach
She listens first, then works with each person to set clear, practical steps they can try between meetings. Her work draws on approaches that focus on the person’s experience and on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior. That might look like noticing thought patterns, trying a small behavior change, or naming inner parts that hold difficult memories.
These techniques are used to relieve anxiety, depression, trauma-related distress, and other concerns. Michelle has also supported people dealing with parenting stress, caregiver burden, codependency, and blended family issues. She pays attention to how family history and day-to-day pressures shape current struggles and helps people find manageable strategies.
Many of her clients value simple, goal-focused sessions. Michelle aims to help people build coping skills, improve communication, and regain a sense of control. If someone is ready to try online therapy, she offers several formats to fit busy lives.
How Michelle Uses Talk Therapy Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s experience. It emphasizes listening, accepting where someone is, and helping them find their own solutions. This approach is helpful for people feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or unsure where to start.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses small experiments and practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. CBT is often chosen for anxiety, depression, and stress management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit those needs. That collaboration helps shape sessions so they feel useful and relevant.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy days. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversations when travel is hard. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief updates, worksheet-style exchanges, or ongoing support between longer meetings. These options give flexibility so people can get help in ways that match their schedule and comfort.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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