About Michelle
Michelle Perry is a licensed mental health counselor offering support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life transitions. She brings warmth and a direct, practical style to sessions. Michelle aims to help people set clear goals and take small steps toward feeling more able to cope.
She uses straightforward conversation and practical tools. Sessions focus on what is most pressing for the person in front of her, with techniques chosen to match each situation.
Background and approach
Michelle often integrates mindfulness exercises and cognitive strategies to help manage thoughts and strong emotions. Her background includes work in skilled nursing settings and hospice care, which shaped her experience with aging, end-of-life concerns, and caregiver stress. That experience also informs her approach to grief, loss, and complicated family-of-origin issues.
Michelle draws on attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationships affect current patterns. She is familiar with trauma-focused work and incorporates eye movement desensitization and reprocessing when appropriate. Dialectical behavior therapy tools are used for emotion regulation and coping skills.
Narrative techniques can help people reframe painful stories and find new ways forward. Michelle holds the credential LMHC, which stands for Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and LIMHP, Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner. She has three years of clinical experience and practices from Nebraska.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, chat, or text messaging.
How Michelle combines proven approaches with online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand attachment needs and how they affect anxiety, relationships, and coping. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying new behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching practical skills for day-to-day life.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked in the past. Together they adjust methods over time, combining approaches like mindfulness, DBT skills, or EMDR when those match the client's needs.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work well when lower bandwidth or a hands-free option is needed. Live chat or text sessions are useful for shorter check-ins or when writing is the easiest way to say what matters. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain regular contact with licensed professionals.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska, Iowa
- Languages
- English
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