About Michelle
Michelle Goehring is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 12 years of clinical experience in Louisiana. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, eating struggles, addiction, and low self-esteem. Michelle focuses on clear, practical steps in conversation.
Sessions aim to identify current challenges and build everyday coping skills. She listens for what matters most and helps people set realistic goals they can try between meetings. Her approach blends acceptance and commitment work with cognitive and mindfulness tools.
How Michelle works
That means clients learn ways to notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and to make choices that match their values. Michelle also uses client-centered and dialectical techniques to strengthen emotional regulation and communication. She supports people dealing with relationship trouble, body image concerns, parenting stress, sleep problems, ADHD, mood swings, and major life changes.
Michelle also addresses issues like guilt, isolation, and coping with illness or separation. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Michelle helps people practice new skills and adjusts the plan when something isn’t working.
Her style is down-to-earth and collaborative, aimed at making small changes that add up over time.
Michelle lists 6 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
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and reconnect with what matters to them. It focuses on small actions that reflect personal values and can reduce avoidance around difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical skills for changing patterns that keep someone stuck. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, panic, and sleep problems. Mindfulness Therapy trains attention and present-moment awareness to reduce reactivity and improve emotion regulation; it pairs well with ACT and CBT to help with stress and mood symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That plan can be adjusted over time as skills are learned and priorities change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are good for full conversations and skill practice, phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth situations, and chat or messaging work well for brief updates, journaling, or step-by-step coaching between calls. These options help make therapy fit around work, family, and daily life while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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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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