About Michelle
Michelle Pellin, LMHC, LPC, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or major life changes. She works with concerns such as parenting strain, low self-esteem, depression, grief, trauma, and issues around intimacy and relationships. Her approach aims to be affirming and respectful of each person’s experience.
Michelle brings 11 years of clinical experience and two master’s degrees, one in Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology and one in Human Services and Counseling.
Background and approach
She spent many years as a licensed therapeutic foster parent, supporting teens with emotional and developmental challenges, and has worked as a case manager advocating for people with acquired brain injury and elder care needs. In sessions she listens first and then offers practical tools and gentle guidance.
She uses methods rooted in cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment work, mindfulness, and client-centered principles. Michelle emphasizes small, doable steps that fit into daily life rather than big, abstract goals. She describes therapy as a partnership where the client sets the pace.
Michelle encourages self-compassion, realistic goal-setting, and finding balance between obligations and self-care. Her manner is direct but warm, and she aims to preserve each person’s dignity while helping them make changes. People often seek her support for recurring anxiety, sleep or eating struggles, addiction concerns, ADHD, caregiver fatigue, or challenges tied to adoption and attachment.
Michelle accepts international clients and offers sessions from Connecticut by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts without getting swept away by them and then act in ways that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, sleep, eating, and mood concerns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and respect so people feel heard and can explore their goals at their own pace.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress and needs change.
Online therapy using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone calls work when less bandwidth is available, and messaging or live chat can be a shorter check-in or a way to reflect between sessions. These options help people keep therapy consistent even with work, caregiving, or travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, Florida
- Languages
- English
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