Michelle Kyles , LPC

Michelle Kyles is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She works with clients experiencing addictions, life changes, ADHD challenges, and women’s issues. Michelle creates a calm, nonjudgmental place where people can talk and figure out next steps.

With ten years of experience in Virginia, Michelle draws on practical, down-to-earth methods. She listens first, then helps clients set clear, short-term goals they can actually try between sessions. She values straightforward tools that make everyday life easier, not more complicated.

Her approach uses client-centered care to follow each person’s priorities. She also applies elements of cognitive behavioral therapy to spot thinking patterns that get in the way. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck and wants to find their own reasons to change.

Sessions are conversational and focused. Michelle helps people break big problems into smaller steps, practice new skills, and track progress. She pays attention to cultural and social factors that shape each person’s experience.

People who come to Michelle often want help with communication problems, coping after separation or divorce, handling workplace stress, or managing feelings of isolation and low self-worth. She supports those working through trauma, grief, jealousy, or issues related to prejudice and discrimination.

Michelle encourages a collaborative pace so clients can move at the right speed for them. She assists in building self-compassion, improving daily routines, and developing tools for lasting change.

Approaches that translate well to online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s lead. The therapist reflects what she hears and helps the client set goals based on their own values and priorities; this approach helps with stress, low self-worth, and relational concerns.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, identifies unhelpful thinking patterns and tests new behaviors. It breaks problems into manageable steps and offers concrete exercises to reduce anxiety and lift mood.

Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or ambivalent about change. It uses open questions and reflective listening to draw out personal motivation and next steps for change.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Michelle will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, pace, and comfort. She adjusts methods over time based on what is working and what isn’t.

Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone calls need less bandwidth, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, location, and how someone prefers to communicate.