Michelle Coffey , LCSW

Michelle Coffey is a licensed clinical social worker with seven years of practice. She uses a person-centered style and aims to partner with each client to reach practical goals. Her tone is calm and direct, focused on realistic steps rather than quick fixes.

She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and relationship struggles. She also supports clients facing grief, intimacy questions, sleep and eating issues, and career stress. Michelle lists Women's issues among her areas of focus and works with many concerns related to attachment and self-esteem.

Her background includes experience with trauma and complex medical conditions. She has worked with people from diverse backgrounds and draws on that experience to tailor sessions to individual needs. Michelle holds LCSW credentials in New York and Florida, which she uses in her clinical work.

In sessions she relies on clear conversation and practical strategies. She blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness. Sessions often include goal-setting, skill practice, and check-ins to track progress.

Michelle offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. People who prefer a collaborative, straightforward style tend to find her approach helpful. She invites prospective clients to try a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session to see if it feels right.

Approaches that translate well to online therapy

Michelle commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques in online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and reflecting what matters to the person, which helps build trust and clear goals even over video or messaging. Cognitive behavioral therapy breaks down thoughts and behaviors into manageable steps and teaches skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, or change unhelpful patterns.

She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotion regulation or intense stress is present. DBT offers concrete strategies for managing strong feelings, improving communication, and tolerating distress, which can be practiced between sessions and reviewed online. Together, these approaches give a mix of supportive listening and concrete tools to try in daily life. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose the best approaches based on each person's needs, goals, and preferences rather than imposing a single method.

Online formats here include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions and visual connection, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a brief check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflections or quick skill reminders. Those options make scheduling easier and allow continuity of care when life gets busy.