About Michelle
Michelle Underwood is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience in Florida. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or life transitions. Michelle offers calm, steady support and practical ways to move forward.
She prefers straightforward, human conversation. Sessions focus on what matters most to the client right now. Michelle listens for patterns that keep people stuck and helps them try small, manageable changes.
How Michelle works
Michelle draws on several therapy approaches. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is used to help people make values-based choices even when emotions are strong. Attachment-based ideas guide work on connection and boundaries.
Client-centered therapy shapes a respectful, nonjudgmental space for exploration. Her work includes help with addictions, intimacy-related challenges, family-of-origin issues, and communication problems. She also supports people dealing with body image, chronic illness, ADHD, and anger.
Michelle blends practical skill-building with deeper meaning-focused exploration. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different rhythms and needs. The subscription plan can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules based on Michelle's availability.
Michelle lists 13 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How Michelle’s Approaches Translate Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when feelings are intense. Online ACT sessions focus on simple exercises, mindfulness practices, and action plans that can be tried between meetings.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early experiences shape trust and boundaries. Through conversation and reflection, this approach helps people notice interaction habits and practice new ways of relating that feel safer and more effective.
Finding the right method is part of the work together. Michelle will discuss goals, preferences, and typical day-to-day challenges to shape an approach that fits. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as needs change.
Online formats offer practical advantages for those juggling busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and adapt it to real life.
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