About Michele
Michele Lewis greets people with a calm, straightforward manner and focuses on helping them feel more like themselves again. She is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) and a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 26 years of practice. Michele works from Missouri and speaks English.
Michele helps people who are coping with trauma or abuse, grief, low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, and stress. She also supports those facing career questions, compassion fatigue, and life changes.
How Michele works
Many clients find her approach useful when dealing with caregiver strain, chronic illness, or the emotional sides of aging. Her style blends listening with practical tools. She offers calm, accepting conversations where people can speak openly.
Michele uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to reduce anxiety and manage mood. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and act on them. Michele often works on relationship patterns that trace back to family of origin and on emotional issues like guilt, shame, and codependency.
She provides guidance for grief, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and the stress that comes with caregiving. The goal is to help people build clearer communication and healthier boundaries. Sessions can include simple skill practice, focused conversation, and planning steps to try between meetings.
Michele tries to make therapy feel like steady support while helping people test new ways of coping in daily life. She offers evening and weekend appointments to fit varied schedules.
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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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Registers | LISW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy centers the person and their experience, offering a nonjudgmental space where the therapist follows the client's pace and priorities. This approach helps people feel heard and understood while they decide what to work on. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. That makes it useful for clients wanting concrete tools to try between sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, teaches ways to accept difficult feelings while taking actions that match personal values, which can be helpful for people facing ongoing stress or life transitions.Finding the best approach is a team effort. Michele will listen to what matters most to the client, discuss different methods, and suggest a blend that fits goals and personality. That collaborative process can change over time as priorities shift or new challenges come up.
Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited mobility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions are handy when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed; live chat and text-based messaging work well for shorter updates, coaching-style support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to maintain continuity of care and try therapy without major travel or schedule disruption.
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