About Michelle
Michelle Underwood is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 15 years of experience. She helps people who are worried about stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship strain, grief, or changes in life. Her work is warm and straightforward, aimed at making everyday coping feel more possible.
Michelle uses practical conversation and focused exercises to help people gain clarity. She listens for patterns that get in the way and helps clients try different ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative - goals come from what the client needs right now. Her background covers many concerns, from trauma and intimacy-related issues to sleep, eating, and attention differences such as ADHD. She also supports people facing family of origin problems, caregiving and aging questions, chronic illness, and codependency.
These areas often overlap, and Michelle helps clients untangle them one step at a time. Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based methods, Client-Centered listening, Existential ideas, and the Gottman Method for relationship work. She adapts those ideas into straightforward tools clients can try between sessions.
The goal is clearer values, steadier emotion, and more satisfying connections. Michelle works by helping people build practical plans and small habits that fit their daily life. Conversations include skill-building, reflection, and gentle accountability.
People leave sessions with concrete next steps they can use the same week.
Approaches and what online sessions look like
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and takes small, value-based steps even when feelings are difficult. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and people who want to make changes without waiting for perfect motivation. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections; it helps people understand trust, closeness, and fears around intimacy. The Gottman Method offers practical communication skills and conflict strategies useful for improving how people interact and solve problems together.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will discuss goals and preferences early on and tailor sessions to what feels most helpful. Clients and therapist make decisions together, testing methods and adjusting as needed so the plan fits each person's life and aims.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging can support brief updates, coaching-style check-ins, or when writing feels more comfortable than speaking. These formats make regular work on goals easier to fit into a busy schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English