- Values-based work
- Skills for emotion
- Client-centered care
About Michelle
Michelle Smith is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor - LCMHC and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor - LMHC with ten years of experience in the field. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by teaching practical skills and guiding them toward meaningful change. Michelle offers a warm, client-centered approach that aims to meet people where they are.
Michelle helps with stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. She also supports people facing trauma and abuse, intimacy challenges, eating and sleeping concerns, parenting strain, career questions, and mood conditions such as bipolar and depression. Additional areas she addresses include attachment issues, body image, chronic illness and caregiver stress, communication and control problems, and concerns related to LGBT identity.
Her approach draws from several therapies to fit each person's situation. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and build flexible coping. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Attachment-based ideas and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills also shape how she helps people with relationships and emotional regulation.
Michelle works with people from many backgrounds and age groups, and she aims to create a nonjudgmental space. She focuses on concrete tools people can use between sessions. The goal is steady progress toward goals the person themselves sets.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and international clients are accepted.
Michelle helps with stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. She also supports people facing trauma and abuse, intimacy challenges, eating and sleeping concerns, parenting strain, career questions, and mood conditions such as bipolar and depression. Additional areas she addresses include attachment issues, body image, chronic illness and caregiver stress, communication and control problems, and concerns related to LGBT identity.
Her approach draws from several therapies to fit each person's situation. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and build flexible coping. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Attachment-based ideas and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills also shape how she helps people with relationships and emotional regulation.
Michelle works with people from many backgrounds and age groups, and she aims to create a nonjudgmental space. She focuses on concrete tools people can use between sessions. The goal is steady progress toward goals the person themselves sets.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and international clients are accepted.
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