About Michele
Michele Walker is a licensed clinical mental health counselor in North Carolina who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, low self-esteem, and parenting challenges. She also supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy issues, grief, career questions, ADHD, and identity concerns. Michele blends practical tools with a respectful, nonjudgmental stance to help people take the next step forward.
She works from a client-centered place that emphasizes each person’s strengths.
How Michele works
Michele listens first, then helps identify goals and small, doable changes. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to teach skills for managing emotions and improving communication. For trauma-related concerns she may draw on eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to help decrease distress tied to difficult memories.
Motivational interviewing is used when people feel stuck or unsure about change, helping them clarify what they want and why. Sessions focus on clear steps rather than jargon. Michele values teaching and self-understanding.
She offers explanations and practical examples so people can try new approaches between sessions. Her aim is to help people feel more capable, authentic, and connected to their goals.
She brings 11 years of professional experience as an LCMHC and works with a wide range of life challenges, including less common concerns such as kink and alternative sex culture, codependency, dissociation, and issues around gender dysphoria. Michele uses a collaborative, strengths-based process to tailor care to each person’s situation.
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
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Michele blends client-centered therapy with practical, skills-based methods. Client-centered therapy means the therapist listens closely and follows the person's lead, helping them name goals and build on their strengths. This approach is useful for people wanting a respectful, collaborative space to sort out feelings and decisions.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and teaches step-by-step strategies to change them. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress because it focuses on actions people can practice between sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when emotions feel overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michele will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. That way clients and the therapist make a plan together and adjust it as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or handle shorter, focused conversations. These options give flexibility to match scheduling, comfort level, and the kind of support someone needs.
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