About Michelle
Michelle MacDonald is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who aims to make starting therapy easier for worried parents and adults. She speaks plainly, listens closely, and focuses on real steps that fit daily life. Michelle offers steady support for people coping with stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, low self-esteem, and depression.
She brings ten years of counseling experience and tailors sessions to each person's needs. Michelle uses a client-centered mindset alongside cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different ways of coping.
How Michelle works
Sessions focus on practical tools, short goals, and skills that can be used between meetings. Michelle also works with concerns that come up around aging and geriatric issues, cancer, hospice and end-of-life decisions, traumatic brain injury, and women's issues. She addresses relationship patterns such as codependency, divorce or separation, and the effects of domestic violence.
Addiction-related problems, including drug and alcohol concerns, are also within her focus areas. Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She encourages messaging between sessions and aims to respond at least once a day during working hours.
Michelle adjusts scheduling to fit different routines so therapy can be easier to keep up with. Sessions are offered in English and Michelle is available to work with international clients. She believes in following each person's pace while offering clear, actionable steps to manage symptoms and move toward goals.
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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Alabama |
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Online support options
Approaches and how online therapy helps
Michelle uses evidence-based, practical techniques to help people manage symptoms and build coping skills. Cognitive behavioral methods focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. This approach is useful for stress, panic attacks, low mood, and self-esteem work.She also emphasizes a client-centered way of working, which means sessions are guided by the person's priorities and pace. That collaborative style helps shape goals and decide which tools to try next, so therapy feels relevant and doable rather than abstract.
Finding the best therapeutic approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss options and work with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they monitor progress and adjust the plan as needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when scheduling allows, phone sessions work well for lower bandwidth or when being on camera isn’t preferred, and live chat or text-based messaging provide brief check-ins or support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or medical appointments and to keep therapy consistent over time.
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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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