About Michele
Michele Lescard is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, phobias, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She speaks plainly and aims to make starting therapy feel straightforward and manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed. She works in a warm, nonjudgmental way and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
Michele draws on client-centered principles to follow each person's priorities.
Background and approach
She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to uncover unhelpful thinking patterns and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address painful relationship feelings. Her style is collaborative and goal-oriented. Michele helps people set clear objectives and builds a toolkit of coping skills.
She also brings mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing to support change and build momentum. Michele has practiced social work for 15 years and holds a Master of Social Work and the credential LCSW, licensed in Florida. That background includes work with people who have autism or intellectual disability, as well as adults managing chronic health challenges and caregiving stress.
Sessions are offered in English and Michele accepts international clients. She emphasizes steady progress over quick fixes and helps people find what works for their life circumstances. People who choose her can expect straightforward conversation, practical strategies, and a focus on everyday steps to reduce distress and handle life changes.
How Michele’s approaches work online
Michele uses client-centered work and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people manage everyday problems. Client-centered work means the conversation follows the person's concerns and priorities, with the therapist listening and reflecting so goals come from the person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches tools to change them, which helps with anxiety, depression, and phobias.She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy when relationship emotions are central. That approach helps people notice and shift patterns that cause hurt in close relationships by focusing on underlying feelings and needs. Together, these approaches give both short-term coping skills and deeper emotion work when needed.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. Michele works collaboratively to decide which approaches fit a person's goals and preferences. She will check in about progress and adjust techniques so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let someone write through thoughts between sessions or use brief check-ins on a flexible schedule. These options aim to make care more accessible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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