About Michell
Michell Fuentes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and parenting challenges. She works with concerns such as ADHD, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, body image and self-esteem. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Michell uses a warm, interactive style. She listens closely and adapts conversations to each person's needs. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps people can use between meetings.
How Michell works
Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds shape current relationships. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small experiments to change them. Motivational interviewing supports people who are weighing change or feeling stuck.
Over 13 years she has helped people navigate family problems, divorce and separation, adoption and foster care issues, and the emotional fallout of fertility or caregiving stress. She also addresses codependency, control issues, guilt and shame in straightforward terms. Michell emphasizes collaboration.
Together she and the person set short-term goals and track progress. The focus is on simple tools for coping with life changes, reducing symptoms, and improving day-to-day functioning. People describe her work as respectful and nonjudgmental.
She aims to support practical change while acknowledging the emotional weight behind hard decisions and painful history.
Michell lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Michell works with
The areas below are the ones Michell selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand why they react strongly in close relationships and offers ways to try new ways of connecting. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small changes in behavior to see what helps reduce anxiety or low mood. Motivational interviewing uses respectful conversation to help people who feel unsure about change, building motivation step by step.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try approaches that fit those needs. That process is collaborative, with adjustments made as progress is tracked and needs shift.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction when possible. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins and a way to work through immediate concerns between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain consistent support over time.
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