About Michelle
Michelle LeClear-Dozier is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience in mental health care. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and mood challenges. She uses straightforward talk and practical strategies so parents and individuals can feel heard and make steady changes.
Michelle leans on clear problem-solving and coping tools. She helps people spot life stressors and build strengths that reduce overwhelm. Sessions aim to break problems into manageable steps and practice skills that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
Her approach blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques. That means she listens first, then works with each person to try out new thinking and behavior patterns that ease symptoms. The work is collaborative and paced to what each person needs.
Michelle has long experience addressing relationship concerns, parenting challenges, family problems, and trauma recovery. She also supports people facing grief, addictions, anger, self-esteem struggles, and issues around intimacy and eating. Her background includes many years helping people with panic attacks, social anxiety, and post-traumatic stress.
Based in Florida, Michelle offers practical, empathetic guidance rather than quick fixes. She aims to help people develop skills they can use daily. The focus is on realistic goals and steady progress toward better coping and healthier relationships.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building a trusting working relationship. In online sessions this means the therapist prioritizes understanding each person's concerns and works at their pace to set helpful goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes to reduce symptoms. It is useful for anxiety, panic, low mood, and stress and works well through guided exercises and homework between sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide whether more listening and support or more CBT-style skill practice is the better fit. Goals, preferences, and progress guide adjustments over time.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports brief, ongoing contact between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep up consistent work on coping skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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