About Michelle
Michelle Spencer is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on stress and anxiety. She brings 12 years of clinical experience and aims to make the first step feel manageable for people who are worried or overwhelmed. She listens without judgement and shapes sessions around each person's needs.
Conversations are practical and down to earth. Michelle helps clients sort priorities, build coping skills, and steady their daily routines. Her work covers trauma and abuse, mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms, and trouble with motivation or self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also assists with workplace strain, career questions, and life transitions that feel hard to navigate. Michelle uses client-centered methods that keep the person's goals at the center. She also draws on cognitive behavioral approaches to spot thinking patterns and DBT skills to manage intense emotions.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone wants to change habits or address addictions. Michelle holds licenses in New York and Minnesota as an LMHC and LPCC. Sessions are offered in English and she provides a range of online formats.
She aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's goals and experiences. The therapist listens closely and adapts how sessions go to match what the person wants to work on. This approach is helpful for building trust, clarifying priorities, and shaping a plan that feels doable.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It breaks problems into concrete parts and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and mood concerns.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds focused skills for handling strong emotions and improving emotional regulation. It can help people manage impulsivity, anger, and intense stress reactions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That discussion usually happens in early sessions and can be adjusted over time.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for deeper conversational work and visual cues, while phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or continuing work between longer sessions. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
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- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, New York
- Languages
- English
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