About Michelle
Michelle Smith is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on practical ways to make life feel more manageable. She brings ten years of experience in the mental health field and works with people facing anxiety, stress, grief, depression, and relationship or family concerns. She helps clients name what matters most and take small steps toward clearer goals.
Sessions are direct and grounded. Michelle uses approaches that teach coping skills and improve daily functioning.
Background and approach
Her work draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and client-centered methods. She adapts techniques to the issue at hand, whether that is trauma, mood concerns, or struggles with self-worth and intimacy. Michelle has experience supporting people through life changes, parenting strain, chronic illness, caregiving stress, workplace burnout, and identity-related challenges including LGBT issues.
She also addresses eating and sleeping difficulties, ADHD-related struggles, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are offered remotely to people in different places, and Michelle speaks English. She is licensed as an LCMHC in New Hampshire and as an LMHC in Florida while practicing from Oklahoma.
To begin, clients use a matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and learn small, consistent actions that match those values. It is useful for anxiety, life changes, depression, and deciding what to prioritize. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and homework. It often helps with anxiety, mood changes, sleep, and coping skills. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness; it can be helpful for emotional reactivity and chronic stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together the client and therapist decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made so treatment stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people work visually and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t desired. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or quick skill reminders between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain regular contact with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Oklahoma, Oregon, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English