About Michelle
Michelle Underwood is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety and those facing addiction, grief, or big life changes. Michelle writes in a straightforward way and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
She uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. Sessions often focus on clarifying values, building healthier attachment patterns, and improving communication.
Background and approach
Michelle favors short, clear goals so progress feels measurable and realistic. Many clients come for help with relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep and eating struggles, or trouble managing anger and low self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with trauma, family of origin issues, and challenges related to identity and LGBT concerns.
Work can include coaching elements to support daily functioning. Michelle blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with attachment-focused work and client-centered conversations. That means clients notice what matters to them, practice small changes, and talk about how their early relationships affect current patterns.
She keeps language plain and explains techniques in everyday terms. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Michelle practices in Florida and leads a calm, direct process that aims to help people feel steadier and more in control of next steps.
How approach and online options work together
Michelle often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking, clarify personal values, and take small steps toward those values. That approach can be helpful for anxiety, stress, and motivation problems.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships influence current patterns. This work helps people improve communication, reduce relationship-related anxiety, and understand triggers that affect intimacy and trust.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Michelle will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person's goals and preferences. Sessions start with goals, try techniques, and adjust based on what feels useful to the client.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins or shorter reflections between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and to continue steady work on skills and goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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