About Michelle
Michelle Wildy, MD, LCSW-C, has practiced social work and mental health care for 33 years. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, relationship difficulties, and major life changes. Her approach is straightforward and caring.
She aims to make therapy understandable and practical for people feeling overwhelmed. Michelle listens for each person’s values and goals before suggesting steps forward. She uses evidence-based techniques to teach coping skills, improve communication, and reduce intense emotions.
Background and approach
Sessions center on real-world tools that can be used between meetings. Her background spans medical and social work training, which she blends into a practical way of working. That experience informs support for issues like abandonment, attachment struggles, caregiving stress, cancer-related concerns, and adjustment after loss or change.
She also addresses problems tied to blended families, adoption and foster care, and aging-related transitions. Michelle pays attention to how culture, identity, and life stage shape each person’s experience. She helps people recognize patterns such as codependency, control issues, dissociation, and dependent personality traits, then offers strategies to change them.
The work is paced to match what each person can handle. Sessions are offered from her Maryland practice and use a mix of talk and skill-building. People leave with concrete next steps, new ways to handle hard moments, and clearer plans for moving forward.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Michelle uses widely recommended, evidence-based techniques in a simple way. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and acting to reduce anxiety and depression. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy teaches people to notice difficult feelings without getting stuck and to act in line with their values, which helps when life changes feel overwhelming.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will discuss goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked before, then suggest strategies together. The plan can change as needs shift so clients and the therapist stay aligned on progress.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice communication skills live. Phone sessions can fit into a lunch break or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, shorter progress notes, or ongoing support between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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