About Michelle
Michelle Ely uses an eclectic, practical approach to help people cope with stress and life changes. She is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, and brings a calm, direct style to sessions. She focuses on clear, manageable steps so parents and adults can move forward.
Her manner is warm and respectful while staying focused on goals. With six years as an LCSW and longer experience as a social worker overall, she helps people reduce anxiety and manage anger.
How Michelle works
She also supports those working through relationship and parenting concerns, grief, trauma and intimacy-related issues. Career questions, self-esteem, and coping with transitions are part of her practice too. She works with clients around family-of-origin issues, blended family challenges, and communication problems.
Additional focus areas include caregiver stress, forgiveness, guilt and shame, autism and Asperger syndrome, intellectual disability, and veteran and Armed Forces issues. She also addresses concerns specific to women and LGBT clients. Her sessions emphasize collaboration.
She listens for strengths and builds on them. Interventions are chosen to match the person and the situation rather than following one fixed method. Michelle encourages practical changes people can try between sessions.
She aims to make therapy a steady, doable process. Taking the first step is often the hardest part, and she views that decision as a meaningful start toward feeling better.
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
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Alaska |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online therapy
Michelle uses an eclectic set of evidence-based techniques tailored to each person. One common approach focuses on skills to reduce stress and anxiety through breathing, grounding, and step-by-step behavioral changes that help with daily functioning. Another area emphasizes problem-solving for relationships and parenting concerns, teaching clearer communication, boundary setting, and small routines that can ease conflict and caretaking strain.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals and try strategies together to see what fits. Clients and the therapist check in on progress and adjust methods so work in sessions matches real-life needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or texting can suit quick check-ins, shorter sessions, or people who prefer typing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep contact between appointments.
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