About Michele
Michele Bowen uses attachment-based and trauma-informed methods to help people handle stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and low self-esteem. She is a licensed master social worker and a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience. Michele works from Michigan and speaks English.
Her approach starts with creating a calm, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be named. She helps people identify patterns that keep them stuck and then practices new ways of responding.
How Michele works
Sessions often combine cognitive behavioral work with mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. Michele has long experience in behavioral health and tailors the plan to each person she sees. She supports people coping with trauma, dissociation, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and issues like codependency and panic attacks.
She also helps those struggling with mood disorders, seasonal affective disorder, and the effects of military service. Practical strategies are a regular part of her work. That can mean learning grounding skills, building emotional regulation, or using focused processing for traumatic memories.
She also brings mindfulness, breathing work, and light somatic practices into sessions for those who want them. Michele guides each person at their own pace and emphasizes building strengths. She frames change as a step-by-step process and coaches people toward clearer communication, healthier boundaries, and more resilience.
Michele lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Michele works with
The areas below are the ones Michele selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dissociation
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMSW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How attachment work and skills-based therapy fit online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and feelings. Online sessions can help people notice those patterns, practice new ways of relating, and build more stable connections in daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In online sessions Michele guides people to test unhelpful thoughts, learn coping skills, and try practical behavior changes between meetings. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal effectiveness. These skills translate well to remote formats where people can practice them between contacts and bring questions back to sessions. Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Michele will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust the plan as progress is made. That collaborative process helps match methods to each person's needs. Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and watching body language, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders and brief coaching. These options make it easier to keep consistent care despite busy schedules or geographic distance.Start online instead of waiting
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