About Michelle
Michelle Upton is a licensed independent clinical social worker with eight years of experience supporting people facing anxiety, stress, grief, and changes in life. She offers steady, calm guidance for everyday struggles like relationship concerns, parenting strain, career stress, and issues with self-esteem. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people find clearer steps forward.
Michelle prefers to work with each person to pick methods that fit their situation.
Background and approach
She draws on client-centered methods to listen and build trust, and uses cognitive and mindfulness tools to help manage worry and strong emotions. Sessions focus on real-life coping skills and clearer thinking rather than jargon. Her background includes many years collaborating with medical teams and supporting caregivers.
That experience informs how she helps people who are coping with illness, aging-related concerns, or caregiving stress. She also addresses addiction-related problems and challenges like forgiveness, guilt, or major life transitions. Michelle aims to make sessions feel calm and comfortable.
She blends practical skill-building with attention to values and meaning. People who meet with her work on problem-solving steps, emotion regulation skills, and ways to rebuild confidence. Therapy with Michelle moves at a practical pace set by the client.
She helps people take small, achievable steps toward their goals while also acknowledging the emotional weight of change. Her work centers on listening, collaboration, and clear tools people can use between sessions.
How Michelle Uses Evidence-Based Methods Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and collaboration. It emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship so people can talk through what matters most and set personal goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches practical ways to shift them, which is useful for anxiety and worry. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers concrete emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills to help manage strong feelings and reduce impulsive reactions.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Michelle will work together with each person to try methods that fit their needs and goals. She often combines techniques so sessions match both the immediate challenge and longer-term values a person wants to build toward.
Online therapy offers flexibility with several formats. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when video is not needed or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, coaching-style support, or when a written reflection feels helpful. These options make it easier to 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
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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