About Michele
Michele Bowers is a licensed mental health counselor who blends practical strategies with a warm, listening presence. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, low self-esteem, ADHD, relationship and family strains, and the fallout from trauma and abuse.
She draws on six years of clinical work in a variety of settings, including addiction and trauma treatment and services for high-risk youth. That experience informs how she helps people untangle patterns and rebuild routines that work in daily life.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses clear, evidence-based approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and a client-centered stance. Conversations aim to identify unhelpful habits, practice new skills, and set manageable goals that match each person’s values.
Michele also addresses specific concerns such as impulsivity, codependency, attachment wounds, anger, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and matters tied to kink and alternative sex culture. She works with addiction-related issues including drug and alcohol dependence and motivation for change. Therapy can include short coaching-style sessions or longer work on deeper issues.
Michele offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and ongoing text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches that work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions, then choose steps that match what matters most. It is useful for anxiety, grief, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and anger by giving concrete skills to practice. Client-Centered Therapy centers on empathic listening and collaboration, which helps people feel heard and begin to make changes at their own pace.Michele treats approach selection as a shared process. She will talk with clients about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust as progress is made. That way the therapy plan evolves from what actually helps rather than from a fixed template.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and ongoing text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face when schedules allow. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text messaging support shorter updates, between-session coaching, and flexible check-ins that fit into busy days.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English