About Michelle
Michelle Wincell OLeary is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) based in Minnesota. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, career strain, grief, anger, and the everyday challenges of parenting and relationships. She also offers coaching for professional growth and managing compassion fatigue.
Michelle draws on almost three decades of professional experience. She focuses on practical tools such as self-care routines and meditation to build resilience.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to boost motivation, confidence, and clarity so clients can take next steps in work and life. Her style is warm and person-centered. She creates a space where people can speak without judgment and be heard.
Cultural, spiritual, and personal values are respected and woven into the conversation as they matter to each person's path. Michelle uses a mix of approaches to match a person's needs. She combines client-centered conversations with mindfulness, solution-focused planning, and motivational interviewing to clarify goals and find workable steps.
She also draws from psychodynamic ideas when exploring long-standing patterns. She has worked with individuals, teams, and communities through stressful events in Minnesota and beyond. That experience informs her work supporting resilience, adaptability, and compassionate action.
Michelle aims to meet clients where they are and help them move toward what matters most.
Approaches you can use online with a LICSW
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience without judgment. It helps people feel understood and supports building self-awareness and confidence. Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and steady anxious thoughts; it often helps with stress, anxiety, grief, and managing mood shifts. Motivational Interviewing is a practical, short-term approach that helps people find their own reasons to change and strengthen commitment to goals like career moves or healthier habits.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to pick methods that match goals, preferences, and the problems at hand. Together they will try strategies, check what helps, and adjust the plan as needed so progress feels realistic and relevant.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual connection. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or clients prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are convenient for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or fitting therapy into a busy schedule. These options make care more flexible and easier to work into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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