About Michella
Michella Rahming is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia. She brings five years of counseling experience and a calm, accepting presence to sessions. She focuses on helping adults manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns.
She also supports people facing addiction, grief, and career transitions. Michella uses a client-centered approach that puts the person's goals first. She combines straightforward techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy with skills from dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness.
How Michella works
This mix helps people change unhelpful thoughts, build coping skills, and manage strong emotions. Her work includes attention to substance use and recovery, including clients who are sober and working to stay that way. She also addresses issues like guilt and shame, multicultural stress, prejudice and discrimination, and concerns that affect young adults and women.
She draws on life context when planning practical steps forward. Michella trained in psychology at Florida A&M University and earned a master’s degree in counseling from Argosy University in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds LPC credentials in Georgia and nearby states.
Her experience includes supporting people through trauma, compassion fatigue, and changes in identity or life direction. Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal oriented. She helps people build small, doable habits and tools they can use between appointments.
The focus is on concrete change and steady progress.
Michella lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Michella works with
The areas below are the ones Michella selected when setting up a profile. The first one is listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping the person set their own goals; online sessions allow that supportive conversation to happen where it fits into daily life. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches practical tools to challenge unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, which works well in virtual sessions with homework and check-ins. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills useful for managing intense feelings and reducing risky behaviors, and those skills can be practiced and reviewed in remote formats.Michella treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with the person about their goals, try techniques, and adjust strategies based on what helps. The aim is to build a plan that fits the person's needs and routines rather than force a single method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let therapists and clients talk face to face, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, live chat supports quicker check-ins, and text-based messaging allows ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to keep momentum, practice new skills, and fit counseling into a busy schedule.
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