About Michelle
Michelle Walsh is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who brings 11 years of clinical experience to her practice. She focuses on building a practical, respectful relationship with each person who reaches out. Her work centers on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and relationship struggles.
Michelle uses a client-centered approach that keeps the person's needs and goals at the center of sessions. She also integrates mindfulness techniques such as guided breathing and present-moment awareness to help reduce overwhelming thoughts and bodily tension.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to identify small, usable tools clients can try between meetings. Her background includes work in independent practice and outpatient mental health settings, and experience with veterans and people affected by homelessness. That range has given her familiarity with depression, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress, substance use, and other complex issues.
She brings a practical perspective to treatment planning. Michelle helps people address concerns related to parenting, career stress, sleep disruption, chronic pain and illness, and coping with life changes. She also supports those facing trauma, domestic violence, sexual assault, and pregnancy or postpartum difficulties.
Her approach balances short-term coping skills with attention to longer-term patterns. Clients can expect a supportive space where the therapist listens and helps identify steps forward. Michelle emphasizes tools and resources people can use outside sessions, from mindfulness exercises to communication strategies.
She aims to collaborate on goals that fit each person’s life and schedule.
Using Client-Centered and Mindfulness Approaches Online
Michelle uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person’s goals and experience. This approach means conversations are guided by the client’s concerns, and the therapist helps reflect back what matters most and explore practical next steps. It is useful for anxiety, relationship strain, and life transitions.Mindfulness therapy is offered alongside client-centered work. That includes simple breathing exercises, grounding practices, and attention training to reduce rumination and calm the body. These techniques can help with panic, stress, sleep problems, and chronic pain by teaching ways to respond differently to difficult thoughts and sensations.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Michelle will collaborate with clients to identify what feels most helpful based on their needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions may blend client-centered conversations with mindfulness practices, adapting over time as progress and priorities change.
Online therapy provides flexibility to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or a brief check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can support more frequent touchpoints or shorter updates. These options make ongoing care easier to schedule and maintain when life is hectic.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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