About Michelle
Michelle St. Raymond is a licensed clinical social worker with 31 years of experience practicing in Louisiana. She draws on long experience helping adults manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions.
Michelle uses down-to-earth language and practical tools to help people take the next step when life feels stuck. She focuses on trauma recovery, relationship growth, and family-of-origin patterns. Michelle blends talk-based work with attention to body awareness and mindfulness.
How Michelle works
She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people shift unhelpful thinking patterns and build new habits. Michelle pays attention to how past experiences shape current behavior. She helps people learn skills to handle emotions, improve communication, and face difficult changes.
Sessions emphasize small, concrete actions clients can try between meetings. Her approach is collaborative. The client’s goals and values guide the work while Michelle offers structure and support.
She encourages compassionate self-acceptance as part of change and helps people practice new ways of coping. Clients who come for help with grief, addiction concerns, parenting strain, relationship stress, sleep or eating struggles will find practical strategies alongside emotional support. Michelle also addresses issues like compassion fatigue, chronic illness and caregiver stress.
She aims to help people move from feeling stuck to taking purposeful steps forward.
Michelle lists 13 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 31 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thinking patterns and teaches concrete skills to change behavior and mood. It can help with stress, sleep and eating issues, and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current patterns and can help people improve connection and communication.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Michelle will work with each person to see which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Over the first few sessions she will suggest ways to combine approaches and track what helps most so adjustments can be made together.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people work face-to-face when they want deeper conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins, homework review, or moments when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around a busy life.
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