About Michelle
Michelle Mohn is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She offers steady support for those wrestling with grief, life changes, and the emotional strain of illness. Michelle writes in a clear, calm way and focuses on practical steps people can use day to day.
Michelle has nine years of professional experience and is licensed as an LCSW in Illinois. She has spent much of her work helping people adjust after serious medical diagnoses and with the practical questions that follow.
Background and approach
She also addresses compassion fatigue and the burnout many caregivers and helpers feel. In sessions she centers the person’s experience and looks for strengths to build on. She uses client-centered methods to listen deeply and to shape goals together.
She also uses elements of cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change patterns that feed worry and avoidance. Her style is straightforward and collaborative; she helps people break big problems into manageable steps. Michelle supports work around self-esteem, career stresses, money concerns, and relationship communication.
She can also help with body image, chronic pain and illness, and end-of-life issues. People who prefer a practical, compassionate approach often find her helpful. She encourages small, steady changes and celebrates progress along the way.
Michelle aims to make therapy feel doable for busy lives and emotional overwhelm.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's own goals. In practice this means the therapist reflects back concerns, asks about what matters most, and helps the person set goals that feel realistic and meaningful. This approach is helpful for people who want a supportive, nonjudgmental space to talk through life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety or low mood going. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to change thinking patterns and daily routines, which can reduce worry and improve coping with stress and illness.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Michelle will work with each person to match methods to their goals, trying different tools when needed and adjusting plans as progress is made. The emphasis is on collaboration and finding what actually helps in day-to-day life.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video lets people work face to face, phone can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets someone reflect between sessions. These options increase flexibility and make consistent support more reachable for many people.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Florida
- Languages
- English
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