About Michelle
Michelle Schmidt is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 19 years of experience based in Wisconsin. She focuses on helping people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and trauma. Michelle works with individuals facing life changes, parenting stress, caregiving strain, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
She has worked in outpatient settings and in people’s homes, offering practical support for daily challenges. Her early practice emphasized Strengths Based Solution Focused Therapy, a straightforward approach that looks for existing strengths and uses them to build solutions.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on small, realistic steps that make life easier and more manageable. Michelle draws on nearly two decades of clinical experience to help people manage addiction-related concerns, bipolar mood challenges, seasonal affective symptoms, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses difficult topics like infidelity, end-of-life caregiving, postpartum depression, and forgiveness.
Her work often centers on helping clients rebuild confidence and find clearer direction. In conversations she prioritizes clarity and usable tools. Clients can expect concrete strategies, pacing set to their needs, and a focus on what can be changed in everyday life.
Michelle helps people identify strengths, set achievable goals, and try practical steps between sessions. Her practice supports English speakers in Wisconsin through a mix of appointment styles. She encourages anyone feeling stuck to consider a first step toward more manageable days and relationships.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Michelle’s background emphasizes practical, evidence-informed techniques that focus on strengths and solutions. Strengths-based work highlights a person’s existing resources and skills, then builds on those to address current problems and stressors. Solution-focused methods narrow the work to clear goals and small, achievable steps that can create quick, measurable changes for anxiety, relationship strain, or caregiving stress.These approaches are collaborative by nature. The therapist will help clients identify what matters most, test out brief strategies, and adjust plans based on what works. Finding the right approach is part of the process, and clients and therapist decide together which techniques fit goals and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face when discussing deeper feelings or practicing skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for short check-ins, step-by-step coaching, and staying connected between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue progress even when travel or time is limited.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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