About Michelle
Michelle Louisville is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with two decades of experience helping people navigate addiction, trauma, depression, and relationship strain. She focuses on clear, practical steps to improve mood, sleep, and everyday functioning. Michelle uses straightforward methods to help people regain control and move toward goals they care about.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more helpful patterns.
How Michelle works
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take small workable steps toward them. Mindfulness techniques are woven into sessions to reduce reactivity and improve present-moment awareness. Michelle also uses Motivational Interviewing to support people who feel stuck or unsure about change.
Solution-Focused Therapy informs short-term goal-setting and measurable progress. Together these approaches aim to build practical coping skills rather than only talking about problems. Her work spans a wide range of concerns including addictions, grief, caregiver stress, codependency, and multicultural or veteran-related issues.
She helps people address career challenges, control issues, eating and sleep problems, and the effects of prejudice and discrimination. Sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging and are tailored to each person's needs. Michelle encourages a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly and experiment with new ways of coping.
Starting therapy is framed as a step-by-step process focused on real-life changes.
Michelle lists 5 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.
- Addictions
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Evidence-based methods for online change
Michelle often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change thought patterns that lead to unhelpful behaviors. CBT is useful for depression, anxiety, sleep problems, and managing moods. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is also part of her work; ACT focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed steps toward them even when feelings are difficult. Mindfulness Therapy appears in sessions as simple practices to lower reactivity and improve focus.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and life demands, and then try methods that fit. Progress is checked regularly and plans are adjusted based on what is helpful for the individual.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports on-the-go reflection. These options make it easier to practice skills between sessions and keep therapy consistent despite shifting routines.
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