About Michelle
Michelle Coffey is a licensed clinical social worker with seven years of practice. She uses a person-centered style and focuses on helping people make real changes that matter to them. Michelle listens for what feels most important and partners with each person to set practical goals.
Her approach is straightforward and compassionate. She helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, trauma and abuse, and issues with substances. She also supports those struggling with grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, body image, eating and sleeping difficulties, ADHD, and career or life transitions.
Background and approach
Michelle draws on several methods to match a person's needs. She uses client-centered techniques to follow what a person wants to discuss. Cognitive behavioral methods help identify unhelpful thinking and build different skills.
Dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness exercises can improve emotion regulation and reduce overwhelm. Sessions are aimed at short- and longer-term goals. Michelle helps clients develop realistic coping plans, practice new behaviors, and work through setbacks without judgment.
She also offers coaching-style work for people who want clearer direction around career or life choices. Michelle holds an LCSW and practices in Florida. Sessions are provided in English and are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She works with people from diverse backgrounds and a wide range of life situations.
How Michelle’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Michelle uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered therapy means she follows what matters most to the person and reflects concerns back so issues feel clearer. Cognitive behavioral work focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and practicing concrete behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.She also brings elements of dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation or intense reactions are present. That approach teaches specific skills for managing strong feelings and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can help with things like relationship conflict, anger, or distress tolerance.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Michelle collaborates with each person to identify goals, test methods, and adjust the plan as needed. Treatment is guided by what the person finds useful and what fits their day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care adaptable. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone works well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can suit quick updates, coaching-style work, or ongoing support between sessions. These options aim to make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and varied schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida, New York
- Languages
- English
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