Michele Keller , LPC

Michele Keller is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri. She brings 15 years of clinical experience and a straightforward, warm approach to sessions. Michele focuses on practical tools people can use day to day to reduce anxiety and manage stress.

She regularly helps people facing depression, relationship strain, low self-esteem, grief, addiction concerns, and major life changes. She also supports those navigating intimacy questions, parenting stress, career concerns, ADHD, and issues related to chronic illness and caregiving. Michele works with people who identify as LGBT and addresses a wide range of family-related problems in individual sessions.

Michele favors clear, structured work in session. She uses client-centered methods along with cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and change it. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and mindfulness strategies to help people stay grounded.

Her style is direct but compassionate. Michele aims to teach skills people can practice between sessions, like distress tolerance and communication tools. She frames therapy as a collaborative process and sets concrete, achievable goals with each person.

Before counseling, Michele spent many years in the travel industry and lived in multiple states. That background influences her open-minded, culturally aware perspective. She has worked in private practice and intensive outpatient settings, giving her experience with a range of challenges and levels of need.

Online approaches that teach practical skills

Michele uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts. CBT helps with anxiety, depression, and work or relationship stress by turning abstract worries into concrete steps.

She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. DBT techniques are useful when emotions feel intense and when someone needs steadying tools for difficult moments.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and current challenges and then recommend methods that fit. People often try a mix of skills and adjust the plan as they go.

Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people have fuller conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a quieter option or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in more frequently or have brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.