About Michelle
Michelle Smith is a licensed counselor with 15 years of clinical experience. She holds an LPC and a LIMHP and practices in Nebraska. Michelle focuses on helping people move forward after loss, burnout, or big life changes.
Michelle concentrates on clear, practical steps people can use day to day. She helps clients name stressful patterns, find small ways to cope, and practice new habits that fit real life. Sessions are conversational and goal minded while still honoring difficult emotions.
How Michelle works
Her work covers a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, trauma and abuse, grief, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people navigating relationship struggles, parenting strain, career questions, identity issues including LGBT and gender dysphoria, and financial stress. Additional focus areas include attachment wounds, abandonment, codependency, and communication problems.
In therapy she blends approaches to match the person in front of her. That can mean using acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts, or attachment-informed conversation to rebuild trust and connection. Dialectical strategies are brought in for emotional regulation when needed.
Michelle aims to help people rediscover what matters to them, trust their own judgment, and create a more meaningful next chapter. Her style is compassionate, straightforward, and practical, with an emphasis on small changes that add up over time.
Michelle lists 11 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
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LIMHP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Nebraska |
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Online support options
Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care
Michelle often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify their values and take small committed steps toward a life that matters to them. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress, and situations where people feel stuck.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how past relationships affect current trust and connection. This approach helps people repair patterns of avoidance, abandonment wounds, and difficulty with close relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist discusses goals and preferences and then recommends techniques from different models to fit those needs. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to what actually helps the person make changes.
Online therapy with Michelle is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited, live chat provides a quicker check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work through transitions and life changes.
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