About Michelle
Michelle Coffey is a licensed clinical social worker with seven years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and relationship concerns. She practices in Florida and focuses on practical steps people can use in day-to-day life. Michelle frames therapy as a partnership and works alongside clients to set realistic goals and build coping skills.
She favors a person-centered stance that keeps the client's priorities central. That means sessions begin with what matters most to the person and grow from there.
How Michelle works
Michelle combines this with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and change behaviors that keep problems going. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used for emotion regulation and improving distress tolerance when feelings feel overwhelming. Mindfulness techniques are introduced to help people slow down, notice what is happening, and respond with more choice.
Motivational Interviewing supports people who want to make changes but feel stuck or uncertain. Michelle has worked with people facing trauma and abuse, complex medical or chronic illness, addiction, bipolar disorder, and caregiving stress. She also addresses concerns such as body image, abandonment, attachment issues, codependency, and communication problems.
Her approach aims to be straightforward and compassionate rather than overly technical. In sessions she focuses on clear, small steps that can be practiced between meetings. She uses a mix of strategies tailored to each person's goals and preferences.
Michelle helps people build skills that make daily life more manageable and move toward lasting change.
Michelle lists 7 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Michelle uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep the focus on each person's goals and lived experience. This approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and collaboration so the client sets the pace and priorities.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replace them with clearer, more helpful patterns. CBT is practical and action-oriented, which fits well into short exercises and between-session practice.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are offered when people need tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness. These are taught in small, teachable steps that can be practiced between appointments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and together they will choose methods to try. She adjusts strategies over time based on what helps most and what feels manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skill teaching and discussion. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging support quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, and written tools that clients can review later. These options make therapy easier to fit into busy schedules and different life demands.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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