About Michelle
Michelle Skoien is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 25 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and build skills to cope with life changes. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people feel steadier and more confident.
Michelle uses simple, teachable tools during sessions. She offers ways to handle grief and loss, reduce anxious thoughts, and strengthen self-esteem.
Background and approach
Parents can get guidance on parenting challenges and strategies to support children in school settings. Sessions emphasize skill-building that can be used between meetings. That includes mindfulness practices to calm the body and cognitive-behavioral ideas to challenge unhelpful thoughts.
Solution-focused steps help clients set small, achievable goals and notice progress. She draws on a long career helping people through difficult experiences and life transitions. Michelle aims to help clients regain balance across physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual areas.
Hope and resilience are central to her work. Clients can expect a warm, respectful space to learn and practice new habits. The tone is encouraging and practical, with an emphasis on real-world changes that make daily life easier.
Practical approaches for online work
Michelle uses client-centered care to build a collaborative relationship where the client's needs guide the process. That means sessions start with your concerns and priorities, and the therapist listens to what matters most to you.She also uses cognitive-behavioral therapy, which focuses on spotting and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and managing stress by teaching concrete techniques you can practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will help you try methods and decide what fits your goals and preferences. Together you set small steps and adjust the plan as you learn what helps.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you have a regular, face-to-face session; phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick skills refreshers, or when scheduling a longer session is difficult. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around school, work, and family life.
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- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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