About Michelle
Michelle Consavage welcomes adults who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood, or life changes and want a steady, compassionate guide. She has 24 years of Michigan practice and uses straightforward conversation to help people sort priorities and build coping skills. Michelle takes a whole-person view that attends to thoughts, behaviors, and lived experience.
She combines practical tools with reflective work so people learn new ways to respond to old patterns.
How Michelle works
Sessions focus on clear goals and small steps that fit everyday life. Her approach blends client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. She also draws on motivational interviewing to support change and psychodynamic ideas to look at deeper patterns when useful.
Michelle adapts methods to each person rather than following one fixed method. Typical issues she helps with include depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, grief, self-esteem, ADHD, and coping with chronic illness or pain. She also addresses concerns such as communication problems, codependency, abandonment, commitment worries, and career or parenting stress.
Michelle aims to create a respectful, sensitive space where people can set priorities and try new strategies. She works with each client to build realistic plans, track small wins, and adjust the approach as progress unfolds.
Michelle lists 6 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects what is said, and helps clarify goals so clients feel heard and more able to make changes. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to notice unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking problems into manageable steps.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide whether to emphasize skill-building, mindfulness practice, motivational interviewing to support change, or exploring deeper patterns, and they adjust the plan as progress happens.
Online work can fit into busy lives because it offers multiple ways to connect. Video calls let people meet face to face for deeper conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports short, ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum and practice new skills in real time.
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