About Michelle
Michelle Nguyen is a licensed clinical social worker (LICSW) based in the District of Columbia who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She works with concerns like depression, relationship strain, self-esteem, grief, addiction, and life transitions. Her style is direct and practical, focused on small changes that add up over time.
Michelle draws on five years of clinical work across inpatient and outpatient settings. That background includes experience with child protective services investigations and supporting people who have experienced homelessness.
Background and approach
Those roles shaped how she listens and how she responds in crisis and non-crisis moments. In sessions she aims to create a straightforward, supportive space. She uses client-centered conversations to understand what matters most to each person.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and mindfulness strategies to reduce stress in daily life. Michelle includes solution-focused and motivational interviewing methods when people want practical steps or help finding motivation. She often breaks goals into small, manageable tasks and checks in on progress.
This approach is useful for issues such as career stress, commitment concerns, parenting strain, and coping with separation or loss. She speaks English and practices in the District of Columbia. People come to her to talk through attachment and abandonment worries, body image concerns, anger, and forgiveness work.
Her way of working is collaborative and goal-oriented, aiming for steady, realistic progress.
How Michelle’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy starts by following the person's lead and focusing on what matters most to them. It helps build trust and identify personal goals by letting the client set the pace and topics. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest strategies to try. Together they adjust techniques over time so the work fits the person's life and moves them toward specific, realistic goals.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow flexibility for different days and schedules. Video is useful for deeper conversations and exercises that benefit from seeing facial cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging support quick check-ins, brief coaching, and follow-up between sessions. These options help people keep therapy consistent while fitting it into work, caregiving, or other busy routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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