About Michelle
Michelle Davis is a licensed social worker in Michigan with 13 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people handle anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, parenting concerns, and challenges like ADHD and addiction. She approaches care with respect for each person’s strengths and story.
Michelle uses a mix of practical methods to match each client's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses client-centered talk to follow what matters most to the person in the room.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal‑oriented. Michelle helps people set small, concrete steps they can try between meetings. She makes space for emotion while also teaching tools for managing mood, sleep, and anger.
Family background issues, adoption and foster care concerns, attachment difficulties, and blended family stress are within her focus. She also supports people facing grief, intimacy questions, eating or sleeping problems, and the effects of trauma or dissociation. Michelle adapts her approach when people cope with multiple challenges at once.
Her style is collaborative and strengths‑based. She listens first, then builds a plan with the person she’s working with. The aim is to help people feel more steady, solve pressing problems, and find clearer next steps.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Michelle combines client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral techniques to shape online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so the person feels heard and understood. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits.She often draws on mindfulness in sessions, which trains simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and focus. These approaches aim to be practical and can be adapted to remote formats. Finding the right approach is part of the early work; she collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. If something isn’t helping, the plan is adjusted together so sessions feel useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can fit into shorter breaks and use less bandwidth, and chat or messaging is useful for quick check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care and to fit therapy into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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