About Michelle
Michelle Simon is a Minnesota psychologist with 33 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns. She aims to meet clients with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Michelle uses straightforward conversation and practical strategies. She often draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice patterns of thinking and try new responses. She also centers the person in the room, listening closely and shaping the work around each clients goals.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with parenting challenges, divorce with children, new parent struggles, and broader family conflict. She also brings experience navigating the Family Court System and an awareness of alternative health and medicinal approaches when relevant to a client's situation.
Sessions typically focus on clear problems people bring in day to day life - low self esteem, communication problems, caregiver stress, grief, or career transitions. Michelle helps people break concerns into small steps and practices they can use between sessions. She frames therapy as a collaborative process that adjusts as needs change.
People looking for practical tools and steady, listening support often find this style useful. Her work is tailored to each persons situation, with the pace and focus decided together during the planning phase.
Online approaches that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on the persons experience and aims to create a respectful, listening environment where goals come from what matters most to the client. This approach helps when people need someone to hear their story and co-create next steps for change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together and introduces simple exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, stress, low mood, and practical problems like communication or parenting struggles.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, try a few techniques, and adjust plans based on what helps most. That collaborative process makes it easier to pick methods that match a clients needs and preferences.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video allows a near face-to-face conversation while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support, or times when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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