About Michelle
Michelle Davis is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with 13 years of experience providing practical, person-focused care. She emphasizes listening first and then building a plan that fits each person's life. Michelle aims to make the first step feel manageable for worried parents and adults seeking help.
She uses straightforward, evidence-informed approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and client-centered methods. Sessions focus on small, useful changes in thinking and behavior, along with practical skills for managing stress, anxiety, mood, and sleep.
How Michelle works
Mindfulness and dialectical strategies are used to strengthen emotional regulation and present-moment coping. Michelle helps people address relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, and career stress. She also supports issues related to addiction, grief, intimacy, self-esteem, and ADHD.
Additional experience includes adoption and foster care, attachment challenges, autism and Asperger syndrome, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and family of origin problems. Her work often involves improving communication, reducing conflict, and building routines that support daily functioning. She will tailor conversations and treatment plans to match each person's needs and strengths.
Michelle frames clients as experts in their own lives and builds on existing resources to reach achievable goals. Michelle practices in Michigan and offers sessions in English. She combines practical skill-building with a respectful, collaborative style to help people manage life changes and rebuild balance.
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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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building from a person's strengths. It helps people feel heard and guides conversations toward goals they value. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating issues. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, combines acceptance and change strategies and offers concrete skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance, which can help with anger, intense moods, and relationship conflict.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle will work together with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their style, and adjust the plan as needed. The aim is to pick techniques that match the client's needs and daily life rather than using a one-size-fits-all method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and a longer session format, phone calls use less bandwidth, live chat can be useful for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep consistent progress over time.
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