About Michelle
Michelle Smith, LCMHC, LMHC, focuses on practical, goal-oriented therapy that helps people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship struggles. She offers straightforward support for common problems like low self-esteem, sleep or eating concerns, parenting strain, and life transitions. Michelle brings ten years of experience in mental health to her work in Oklahoma.
Her approach blends cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance-based ideas to help people change unhelpful patterns and live by their values.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-informed work to examine how early relationships shape current behavior and closeness. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Michelle often helps people facing trauma, abuse, compassion fatigue, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and depression.
She also supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiving stress, body image issues, and questions around intimacy and kink culture. Her practice addresses both practical coping skills and deeper relational themes. Sessions can include skills training, values clarification, behavior experiments, and focused conversations about communication and boundaries.
Michelle favors clear, simple strategies that can be used between sessions to build momentum and reduce overwhelm. She provides online options and works with international clients in English. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the client's needs and timing.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values while learning to tolerate difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns like avoidance or unhelpful thinking. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns influence current connection and trust, and it helps people improve communication and closeness in important relationships.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, tolerance for change, and daily life. That may mean trying skill-based CBT exercises one week and doing values work or attachment conversations the next, with progress reviewed along the way.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into workdays, manage shorter check-ins, or avoid bandwidth-heavy video when needed. These options increase flexibility for people living in Oklahoma or internationally and let therapists deliver skills practice, coaching, and reflective conversations across different formats.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- 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
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- 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
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Oklahoma, Oregon, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
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