About Michelle
Michelle Curry is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 21 years of experience. She provides steady, compassionate support to people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental health concerns. Michelle aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients can speak openly about what matters to them.
Michelle listens first and helps people name the problems they’re facing. She offers practical tools for managing intense feelings and everyday struggles. Over time clients often gain clearer insight into patterns that affect their relationships and mood.
Background and approach
Her work addresses a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, self-esteem, grief, and intimacy-related issues. She also helps with challenges like ADHD, eating concerns, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes. Michelle pays attention to related areas such as body image, communication problems, and caregiver stress.
Clients describe her approach as empathetic and goal-focused. She brings two decades of real-world experience to sessions and adapts methods to fit each person’s needs and pace. Michelle respects diverse identities and supports people across the LGBT community.
Michelle practices in Illinois as an LCSW. She offers multiple ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on availability.
Evidence-based techniques adapted for online care
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on clear steps and skills people can practice between sessions. One common approach involves teaching coping and emotion-regulation strategies to reduce anxiety and manage strong feelings. These skills help with panic, ongoing worry, and stress that gets in the way of daily life.Another often-used approach centers on processing trauma and painful experiences in a paced, supportive way. This work helps people make sense of what happened, reduce intense reactions, and rebuild confidence in relationships and day-to-day functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Michelle collaborates with each person to identify which techniques match their goals and comfort level. She adjusts pacing based on how someone responds and stays focused on practical progress rather than labels or quick fixes.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, reflections between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain continuity between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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