About Michelle
Michelle Perkins helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, relationship problems, addiction, or changes in life. She presents a calm, straightforward approach and aims to make therapy feel practical and understandable for everyday life. Her work centers on helping clients build skills they can use between sessions.
Michelle focuses on things like improving sleep, managing mood swings, coping with loss, handling anger, and strengthening communication. She also supports people facing parenting challenges, fertility stress, chronic illness, and co-occurring health concerns.
How Michelle works
Michelle draws on a mix of well-known therapeutic methods to match each person’s needs. She uses client-centered listening to understand a person's story and then introduces tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and dialectical behavior strategies when those fit. Mindfulness and emotionally-focused techniques are added when helpful to address difficult feelings and relationship patterns.
Michelle holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential and a Licensed Independent Social Worker credential. She has 12 years of experience working in clinical settings. Her training and background give her experience with a wide range of concerns including mood disorders, trauma and addiction-related issues.
Sessions are offered online in formats that include video, phone, live chat, and ongoing text messaging. Michelle works with English-speaking clients located in Florida and uses a flexible subscription model that can be canceled at any time. She invites people who want clear, practical guidance and steady support to begin by completing a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment.
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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
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely to what matters to each person and shaping sessions around their goals; it helps people feel heard and understood. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, and many day-to-day struggles. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) adds skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening relationships, and can be used when people need tools for strong mood swings or impulsive behaviors.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle will work with clients to pick strategies that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She often starts with listening, then introduces tools and practices to try between sessions so progress can be measured and adjusted together.
Online therapy makes these methods easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and ongoing text messaging helps people process between appointments. These options offer flexibility and make it simpler to maintain consistent care while juggling work, family, and other commitments.
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