About Michelle
Michelle Owusu is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 17 years of experience. She offers calm, direct support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Michelle listens first, then works with each person to find practical steps forward.
Her approach centers on building trust through empathy and acceptance. Sessions focus on clear goals and tools that can be tried between meetings.
Background and approach
Michelle helps people talk through grief, navigate life changes, and manage anger or addictive behaviors in everyday terms. She brings wide experience across many concerns, including parenting strains, intimacy issues, multicultural stressors, and work-related pressure. She also supports people coping with mood disorders, postpartum depression, and challenges tied to sexuality or non-traditional relationships.
Michelle adapts her work to the person in front of her rather than using a single formula. That can mean practical skill-building, looking at patterns in relationships, or addressing attachment and communication struggles. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, focused on what helps in real life.
Clients can expect clear suggestions, homework when useful, and regular checkpoints to track progress. Michelle works with people in Arizona and delivers services in English. She does not take international clients.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on concrete skills and relationship patterns. One common approach emphasizes skill-building for managing anxiety and stress through breathing, planning, and gradual exposure to feared situations; this helps people reduce avoidance and regain daily functioning. Another approach looks at relationship and attachment patterns to improve communication and intimacy by identifying recurring dynamics and practicing new ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on their goals, symptoms, and preferences. That means checking in, trying techniques, and adjusting the plan together over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a quick check-in is needed, live chat offers shorter written exchanges, and text messaging supports ongoing brief coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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