About Michelle
Michelle Smith is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people regain balance during hard times. She practices in Oklahoma and brings 10 years of experience supporting adults through stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. Her work centers on practical strategies that people can use day to day.
Sessions focus on managing strong emotions, improving self-esteem, and coping with relationship and intimacy concerns. Michelle pays attention to how past attachments and current patterns affect present life.
How Michelle works
She blends several approaches to fit each person's needs instead of using a single method for everyone. That means sessions might include skills for handling intense feelings, tools to change unhelpful thoughts, and exercises to clarify values and actions. The aim is to leave each person with concrete steps they can try between sessions.
Michelle has supported clients dealing with trauma and abuse, parenting stress, chronic health challenges, career and identity questions, and concerns related to ADHD and bipolar conditions. She also helps people navigate issues like body image, codependency, communication problems, and caregiving stress. Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, and sessions are scheduled to fit individual needs.
Michelle meets people where they are and works collaboratively to set goals that feel meaningful and achievable.
Michelle lists 16 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCMHC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to someone and taking small steps that match those values. It helps with anxiety, depression, and making changes when life feels stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical tools to shift unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and sleep or eating issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative process includes checking what helps, adjusting techniques, and setting achievable tasks between sessions.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone needs quick tools between appointments. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life.
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