About Michelle
Michelle Powell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with 25 years of experience. She works with people facing anxiety, depression, grief, stress, relationship strain, parenting concerns, and other life changes. Michelle uses a practical, person-first style that focuses on everyday problems and workable steps forward.
She centers sessions on the individual and starts by listening to what matters most. Michelle combines client-centered care with cognitive strategies to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses.
Background and approach
She aims to build each person’s sense of autonomy and decision-making skills. Her approach is straightforward and respectful. Michelle tailors treatment plans to the issues a person brings, whether that is trouble sleeping, anger, low self-esteem, or caregiving stress.
She also supports people dealing with more complex concerns such as bipolar symptoms, obsessive or compulsive patterns, and compassion fatigue. Sessions often include practical exercises and real-world homework to practice new skills between meetings. Michelle uses tools from mindfulness, dialectical behavior therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy as needed to broaden coping options.
Clients who value a calm, collaborative clinician find her style accessible. Michelle focuses on small, measurable changes that add up over time, and she works with people looking to regain balance, improve relationships, and manage everyday challenges.
Evidence-informed approaches for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take actions that align with those values. It often uses simple exercises to reduce avoidance and increase meaningful activity, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It teaches skills for mood and anxiety management, improving sleep, and changing behaviors that get in the way of daily functioning.
Michelle will collaborate with each person to decide which approach or combination fits best. She listens to goals, preferences, and daily routines, then adapts methods so they work in the client’s life. Finding the right mix is part of the process and may change over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skills practice, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, live chat supports quick check-ins, and messaging lets people share progress between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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