About Michelle
Michelle Pellin is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, depression, and phobias. She brings 11 years of clinical experience and a calm, encouraging presence to sessions. Michelle is open and affirming to people of diverse identities and life paths.
She works with individuals facing addiction, grief, trauma, relationship strain, career concerns, ADHD, and many other life challenges. Michelle holds two master's degrees, one in Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology and the other in Human Services and Counseling.
Background and approach
She is credentialed as an LMHC and an LPC. Prior to her counseling career she spent nearly 20 years as a licensed therapeutic foster parent and also worked seven years as a case manager advocating for clients with acquired brain injuries, physical challenges, and elder care needs. Her approach blends practical skills with attention to values and mindfulness.
She uses techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and client-centered work to help people reduce symptoms and build daily routines that feel manageable. Sessions often include mindfulness practice, skill-building, and values-focused goal setting. Michelle aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients guide the pace of work.
She offers steady listening and gentle guidance while encouraging people to take the lead in decisions about their care. Her style is warm, straightforward, and geared toward realistic steps clients can use between sessions. People who choose Michelle can expect collaborative planning, practical tools for coping, and support addressing life transitions, caregiving stress, body image concerns, and intimacy or sexual identity issues.
She accepts international clients and provides services from Connecticut.
How therapeutic approaches adapt to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed actions toward them. Online ACT sessions often include values exercises and practical homework to try between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) uses short, focused skill practice to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which works well in video or text formats for real-time coaching and homework review. Mindfulness Therapy centers on present-moment awareness and simple attention exercises that clients can practice during or after sessions to reduce anxiety and reactivity.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your needs, goals, and preferences and then co-create a plan. That collaborative conversation guides whether sessions lean more toward skills training, values work, mindfulness practice, or a combination of methods.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you use visual cues and screen-share worksheets, phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a work break, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection and brief coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to maintain consistent care while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, Florida
- Languages
- English
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