About Michelle
Michelle Smith, LPC, LIMHP, is a Nebraska-based therapist with 15 years of experience. She helps people untangle stress and anxiety so they can move forward with clearer choices and more calm. Her work focuses on practical steps rather than jargon.
She aims to make therapy feel approachable and useful from the first session. Clients come for help with things like relationship strain, self-esteem, grief, burnout, and major life changes. Michelle pays attention to how past experiences shape current patterns, especially around attachment and codependency.
Background and approach
She uses a mix of methods to suit each person’s needs instead of a one-size-fits-all plan. Sessions are steady and conversational. Michelle listens closely, offers tools people can try between sessions, and checks what’s working.
She often combines thought-focused strategies with skills for managing difficult emotions and rebuilding routines after setbacks. Her aim is to help people rediscover what matters to them. That can mean setting clearer boundaries, repairing strained connections, or finding a new direction after loss.
Michelle encourages small, manageable steps that add up over time. She also supports people facing burnout and compassion fatigue, helping them rebuild energy and purpose. Her approach emphasizes self-compassion and practical coping skills.
Michelle believes recovery and growth are possible even after hard experiences.
How Michelle’s approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking values-based action even when uncomfortable feelings are present. It helps with anxiety, low motivation, and major life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It works well for anxiety, depression, and stress management.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle listens to each person’s concerns and goals, then suggests strategies that fit their situation. She checks in regularly and changes the plan if something isn’t helpful so the work stays focused on what the client wants to achieve.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls let therapists and clients see each other for fuller interaction, while phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is low or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for short updates, skill practice, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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