About Michelle
Michelle Gibbs-Parrish is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with 15 years of experience. She centers her work on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addictions. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away and respects each person as the expert on their own life.
She helps with relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, and self-esteem concerns. She also supports people dealing with mood disorders, bipolar conditions, and obsessive-compulsive patterns.
How Michelle works
Michelle pays attention to how life transitions and compassion fatigue affect daily functioning. Her practice addresses a range of specific patterns like codependency, commitment and control issues, communication problems, and impulsivity. She also works with concerns such as infidelity, jealousy, emptiness, guilt, and shame.
Substance use problems, including drug and alcohol addiction, are included in her clinical focus. Michelle uses several evidence-informed approaches and adapts them to each person’s needs. Sessions aim to build skills, clarify values, and reduce unhelpful behavior while honoring what is important to the client.
She emphasizes collaboration and steady progress over time. Sessions are offered in English and provided through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Her Florida LCSW credential is noted for professional context, and the practice follows a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Michelle lists 11 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name their values and take small steps that match those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and problems like shame or emptiness. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns with practical exercises and homework to reduce symptoms such as anxiety, depression, and compulsive habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills for intense mood swings, impulsivity, and relationship stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they choose or combine methods so sessions match the person's needs and feel doable in day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers a range of session types: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions for lower bandwidth or hands-free check-ins, live chat for quick back-and-forth, and text-based messaging for shorter updates and reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family tasks, and travel while keeping momentum between meetings.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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