About Michelle
Michelle Curry is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 21 years of practice experience. She focuses on helping people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, or feeling stuck in relationships and life transitions. Michelle aims to offer steady support and practical steps for change.
Her approach is straightforward and compassionate. She listens first, then helps people identify patterns that cause pain or get in the way of goals. Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address trauma, mood concerns like depression and bipolar disorder, and challenges such as ADHD, low self-esteem, or compassion fatigue.
How Michelle works
She also supports people dealing with intimacy issues, eating concerns, anger, career strain, and identity-related stress including LGBT matters. Michelle pays attention to family and parenting stressors, adoption and foster care topics, and caregiver burnout without judgment. Her work includes attention to communication problems, codependency, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters.
Sessions are shaped around practical tools and steady emotional support. Michelle helps clients practice new ways of responding to conflict, anxiety, and hard emotions. Over time people often gain clearer goals and more effective daily routines.
Michelle practices in Illinois and offers services in English. She emphasizes patience and steady progress, and she helps people move through difficult periods while keeping everyday life functional.
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and real-life changes. One common approach teaches practical coping skills for anxiety and mood symptoms by breaking problems into manageable steps and rehearsing new responses. Another approach addresses trauma and abuse by helping people make sense of painful experiences and build safety in how they handle triggers and strong emotions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and needs, then suggest techniques to try. Together you will track what helps and adjust the plan so it fits your daily life and what matters most to you.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier fit into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from different locations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can suit quick updates, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to maintain continuity of care while juggling work, family, and other responsibilities.
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