About Michelle
Michelle Newton is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 18 years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting, and ADHD. She takes a practical, down-to-earth approach so people can feel heard and start making small changes right away.
Michelle offers steady, compassionate support during hard moments. She listens closely and helps people identify clear next steps. Sessions aim to leave clients with simple tools they can use between appointments.
Background and approach
Her background includes long experience working with attachment concerns, autism and Asperger syndrome, chronic illness and pain, and caregiver stress. Michelle also addresses issues such as abandonment, codependency, communication problems, and divorce or separation. She blends several therapy styles to match each person’s needs.
In sessions she draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and shift unhelpful thinking. She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take meaningful action. Elements of attachment-based and dialectical approaches support emotional understanding and stronger connection.
Michelle practices in Washington as an LMHC. She offers multiple ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Her goal is to help people find workable strategies and a clearer path forward. To begin, visitors can use the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on therapist availability.
Approaches for online treatment and how they help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match personal values; it can help with anxiety and stress by shifting attention toward meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior, teaching concrete techniques to reduce worry and change unhelpful habits; it is often used for anxiety and relationship patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand how early relationships shape current emotional responses and closeness, which can improve communication and reduce reactivity in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She often blends techniques from these approaches so sessions match what someone needs that week, and she checks in regularly to adjust the plan together.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful when visual cues and face-to-face connection matter. Phone sessions are handy when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat or text messaging can help people maintain momentum between meetings or suit those who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and access licensed professionals regardless of travel time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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