About Michelle
Michelle Smith is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She blends practical tools with steady support to help clients face life changes and emotional pain. Michelle holds LCMHC and LMHC credentials and brings ten years of experience in mental health to her work.
She uses approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to build skills for everyday life.
Background and approach
Sessions often include clear strategies for coping with worry, sleep problems, and low mood. Michelle also addresses relationship strain, grief, and challenges around identity and intimacy. Her style is client-centered.
That means conversations focus on what matters to the individual. The therapist helps people set doable goals and practice small steps between sessions. Michelle has experience supporting people through trauma, caregiving stress, chronic health issues, and workplace burnout.
She also works with concerns such as ADHD symptoms, body image, and parenting stress. The aim is to help people reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning. Michelle offers therapy in English and accepts international clients.
Sessions are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, a short questionnaire helps match needs and preferences before scheduling.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while taking steps toward what matters. It can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical strategies to reduce worry and improve sleep and mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and handling crises in healthier ways.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they will try techniques and adjust the plan so the approach fits the person's life and needs.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use written reflection when that feels most comfortable. These formats help fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- 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
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- 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
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Oklahoma, Oregon, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
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