About Michelle
Dr. Michelle Blake is an LCSW who helps people facing grief, depression, anxiety, stress, and major life changes. She also supports concerns around relationships, intimacy, self-esteem, career strain, compassion fatigue, and LGBT and gender dysphoria matters.
Dr. Blake is based in Tennessee and brings 15 years of clinical experience to her work. She focuses on creating an open, nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly about what they are feeling.
How Michelle works
Sessions emphasize listening first, then working together on goals that feel realistic and useful. Practical steps and gentle reflection are used so clients can make steady progress. Her approach draws on client-centered techniques that prioritize the person’s experience and perspective.
She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that may come from earlier life or family history. These methods are used to address mood, coping, and relationship patterns. Dr.
Blake has a background in higher education and clinical practice across state lines. That combination informs how she frames career and life-purpose concerns. She often helps people untangle expectations, role strain, and caregiving stress.
People who come for hospice, end-of-life, or grief support can expect straight talk about difficult emotions and support for decision-related stress. She also helps with issues such as codependency, avoidant tendencies, fertility-related distress, and multicultural concerns.
Michelle lists 2 ways of working on the entry:
What Michelle works with
The areas below are the ones Michelle 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
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- 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 | Tennessee |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely, reflects back what she hears, and helps people set goals that feel achievable. This approach is helpful for concerns like low self-esteem, relationship strain, and coping with life changes.Psychodynamic Therapy pays attention to recurring patterns and how early relationships can shape current behavior. It involves gentle exploration of past influences to better understand present reactions. This can be useful for anxiety, mood disorders, family-of-origin issues, and codependency. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through your needs, goals, and preferences to decide whether client-centered methods, psychodynamic exploration, or a mix will help most. Treatment choices are reviewed and adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow more face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or mobility needs while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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