About Michele
Dr. Michele Kelly is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people handle stress, anxiety, grief, parenting strains, and other life changes. She focuses on practical steps parents and adults can use to feel steadier and more capable.
Her approach is down-to-earth and aims to meet you where you are. Dr. Kelly draws on about 15 years of professional experience as an LCSW in Louisiana.
She works with teens and adults facing transitions like new jobs, moves, college, divorce, retirement, or loss.
How Michele works
When people come with mood, relationship, or behavior concerns she looks for clear, manageable ways to reduce daily overwhelm. Her working style blends several methods so sessions fit each person’s needs. Early work usually involves a simple assessment and a few goals.
From there she introduces skills for managing thoughts, building routines, and improving communication. Many sessions focus on concrete tools such as breathing and mindfulness exercises, thought-challenging techniques, and behavior strategies for parenting or work stress. She also helps people address identity and life-stage issues like adoption, aging concerns, or immigration-related adjustments.
Dr. Kelly offers flexible scheduling and mixes short-term coaching with longer therapeutic work when needed. She guides people toward stronger coping, clearer decision-making, and steadier daily routines.
Her tone is practical and supportive, aiming to make therapy useful for real life.
Michele lists 7 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts. It can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions by shifting attention toward meaningful action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns; this is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Mindfulness Therapy offers simple practices to build present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity, which supports emotion regulation and daily stress management.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will start with a brief assessment and then talk with the client about goals and preferences. Together they decide whether ACT, CBT, mindfulness techniques, or a mix will best address the client’s situation and goals, and they check progress as therapy continues.
Online sessions can fit into busy lives because they offer multiple ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions work well if bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to use video, and live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to schedule around work, school, or caregiving duties.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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