About Michele
Michele Koenes is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and a wide range of life challenges. She meets clients where they are and focuses on practical steps to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Michele keeps language simple and sessions paced to each person’s needs.
She works from Michigan and offers support in English. With 11 years of experience, Michele has worked in inpatient and outpatient settings.
Background and approach
She has supported adults and older adults through trauma, addiction concerns, bipolar disorder, sleep and eating struggles, and caregiving stress. Her background also includes work as a litigation attorney and a teacher, which shaped her communication and problem-solving skills. Michele uses a collaborative counseling style.
She pays attention to each person’s personality and life situation and lets clients help set the pace of therapy. Sessions focus on building coping skills, improving relationships, and addressing behaviors that get in the way of goals. Practical tools are combined with listening and genuine curiosity.
Her approaches include cognitive behavioral strategies, acceptance work, attachment-focused conversations, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. These methods are used to help people manage anxiety, cope with loss, address body image or identity struggles, and handle changes in life circumstances. People who choose Michele can expect a steady, respectful presence and an emphasis on realistic steps.
She aims to create a space where difficult topics can be talked through and new ways of living can be practiced.
Approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and decisions about life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical skills to change patterns that cause distress. It is often used for anxiety, phobias, and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early and current relationships affect how someone connects and copes, which can help with relationship struggles, abandonment feelings, and self-worth.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michele collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in along the way and adapts techniques when something isn’t helping. This makes online work feel tailored rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide options that fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deep conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can make it easier to share thoughts between sessions or to have a quick follow-up. These formats help people access consistent support without traveling to an office.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, California, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
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