About Michelle
Michelle Evans is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and addictions. She brings 18 years of counseling experience to sessions and aims to make therapy straightforward and useful. Michelle explains things plainly and helps people find tools that fit their daily life.
Her approach is collaborative and adaptable. She uses client-centered methods to listen and shape sessions around each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) are among the practical tools she draws on to address patterns of thinking, emotion regulation, and impulsivity.
How Michelle works
Michelle has worked in a range of settings since earning a Master of Arts in Counseling from Webster University in 2006. Her background includes residential programs, independent living homes, foster care–related services, and substance use treatment contexts. That variety informs how she tailors interventions to different life situations.
Sessions often focus on concrete skills - coping strategies, relapse prevention planning, communication techniques, and mindfulness exercises. She also addresses relationship patterns such as attachment, abandonment, codependency, and blended family stress in an individualized way. Motivational Interviewing is used when people want help with change and commitment issues.
Michelle is licensed in Missouri as an LPC and holds a Washington Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential (LMHC). She offers sessions in English and works with people who prefer multiple formats of online counseling.
Michelle lists 8 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
How Michelle Uses Practical Approaches Online
Michelle often combines Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) when working with people online. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and shaping sessions around each person's priorities, helping them feel understood and heard. CBT looks at thinking patterns and helps people test and change thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety, low self-esteem, or addictive urges. DBT emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills for people dealing with strong emotions or impulsivity.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and daily life. She adapts tools over time and checks in to see what is helping and what needs to change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can be good for lower bandwidth or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging work for people who prefer written exchanges or need flexible ways to stay connected between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into work, school, and caregiving routines.
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