Michelle Robbins , LCPC, LPC

Michelle Robbins is a licensed counselor with 12 years of experience helping people manage everyday struggles. She holds LCPC and LPC credentials and practices from Maine while also maintaining licensure in South Carolina. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions.

Michelle meets people where they are and treats them as the expert in their own story. She listens for strengths clients already have and uses those strengths to work through hard moments. Her style is direct but compassionate and she aims to make sessions feel useful from the start.

In sessions she helps people name what feels most urgent and breaks bigger problems into small steps. She offers tools for coping with overwhelming emotions, improving daily routines, and managing persistent worry. She also helps people who are struggling with work-related pressure, isolation, or feelings of guilt and shame.

Michelle has supported people through grief, chronic illness, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, and caregiver stress. She also addresses issues connected to abandonment, communication problems, and finding life purpose. Women's issues are a listed focus in her work, and she attends to how gendered expectations can shape emotional experience.

Her approach centers on practical strategies and steady support. She encourages clients to set realistic goals and track progress between sessions. People who want focused guidance and plainspoken feedback often find her approach helpful.

Evidence-based approaches for online care

Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach emphasizes skill-building for managing anxiety and stress, teaching breathing and grounding exercises, simple behavior changes, and ways to interrupt worry cycles. This helps people regain control of daily routines and reduce overwhelming reactions.

Another approach centers on processing grief and difficult life events by helping people make sense of loss, name painful feelings, and create step-by-step plans for moving forward. This method supports clearer thinking and steadier coping during transitions. A third focus looks at building self-esteem and addressing shame through identifying personal strengths and practicing self-compassion in small, concrete ways.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adjust techniques as the work progresses. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions stay practical and relevant.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, live chat offers a shorter check-in, and messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep consistent momentum.