About Zita
Zita "Michelle" Frederic is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades of experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes. Michelle aims to make the first step easier for worried parents and individuals by offering calm, practical support.
She creates a warm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what feels hard. Sessions focus on listening first, then breaking problems into manageable steps.
Background and approach
Michelle uses a strengths-based, collaborative style that centers the person's goals and priorities. Her background includes many years working in school settings with children, adolescents, and families. That work fostered skills in advocacy, communicating with educators, and addressing school-related stresses.
She draws on that experience when parenting or developmental issues are part of the concern. In therapy she helps people develop coping tools for anxiety and social fears, improve communication, and build self-esteem. Practical problem-solving is paired with attention to emotions and relationships.
Michelle adapts her approach to each person's stage of life and situation. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She works from Louisiana and holds an LA LCSW credential.
Getting started is done through a short matching questionnaire and scheduling online.
Evidence-based approaches for anxiety and life changes
Michelle often uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and real-life practice. One common approach helps people learn specific coping strategies for anxiety and social fears, such as breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations. This supports steady progress on things that cause worry.Another approach centers on building communication and relational skills to reduce conflict and isolation. It teaches clearer ways to express needs, set boundaries, and repair misunderstandings, which can ease caregiver stress and improve family interactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle collaborates with each person to figure out what fits their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts techniques as progress is made and checks in regularly to make sure the plan feels useful and manageable.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for busy parents and adults. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text messaging work well for quick check-ins, ongoing skill practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent without major schedule changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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