About Michelle
Michelle St. Raymond is a licensed clinical social worker with 31 years of experience practicing in Louisiana. She draws on long experience to help people handle anxiety, stress, grief, and major life shifts.
Her work is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at making everyday coping simpler and clearer for people under pressure. She focuses on trauma recovery, family-of-origin patterns, and relationship growth. Michelle uses approaches that help people notice thoughts and feelings, try new behaviors, and build stronger connections with themselves and others.
Background and approach
She emphasizes body awareness and self-acceptance as part of lasting change. Sessions are collaborative. Michelle listens first, then helps people set concrete goals and steps.
She encourages small, achievable actions that add up to real change over time. Clients are treated as the experts on their own lives while she offers guidance and tools. Michelle often uses cognitive strategies to shift unhelpful thinking and acceptance-based ideas to reduce struggle with difficult feelings.
She also draws on attachment-related ideas to help people understand patterns in close relationships. Her style blends practical skill-building with attention to the emotional and physical parts of stress. Many come to her when life is in transition - job changes, aging, health issues, blended family shifts, or relationship strain.
Michelle helps people move from feeling stuck to taking purposeful steps forward. Her approach is steady, compassionate, and focused on what will work day-to-day for each person.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values while learning to relate differently to painful thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, or sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people understand and change repeating dynamics that cause pain.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will collaborate with each person to figure out which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She aims to blend approaches when useful, and she checks in regularly to see what is helping and what should change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for in-depth work, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, and moments when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or health challenges while keeping focus on meaningful progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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