About Michelle
Michelle Hammock is a licensed independent mental health practitioner in Nebraska. She has six years of clinical experience helping people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, obsessive-compulsive challenges, and phobias. Michelle aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone worried about seeking help.
She keeps sessions warm and interactive. Conversations are direct and respectful, and she avoids stigmatizing labels. The first meetings focus on what matters most now and on small, practical steps that can ease daily strain.
Background and approach
Michelle uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws from client-centered methods to build trust, cognitive-behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and habits, and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity. For people with trauma histories she also incorporates EMDR when appropriate as part of a broader plan.
Her work often centers on manageable goals: lowering anxious moments, improving sleep and routine, reducing risky patterns tied to substance or process addictions, and rebuilding confidence after painful events. She also helps people navigate career stress, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and grief. Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-focused.
Michelle helps clients track progress and try concrete skills between meetings. The tone is practical and compassionate, with steady attention to what a person can do right now to feel safer and more capable.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Michelle often uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the client's goals guide the work. This approach focuses on listening, validating, and helping people find their own solutions to problems.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns and practice alternative behaviors. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, phobias, mood difficulties, and many everyday stressors.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist discusses options, listens to the client's priorities, and recommends techniques that match current needs and preferences rather than imposing a single method.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and skill practice, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text work well for brief check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, or other obligations while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska
- Languages
- English
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