Michelle Smith , LCMHC, LMHC

Michelle Smith, LCMHC, LMHC, draws on a decade of clinical experience to help people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and changes in life. She offers straightforward, practical support for self-esteem, relationship concerns, intimacy issues, and identity questions, including LGBT-related matters. Sessions focus on what matters to each person and on small steps that add up to real change.

Her background includes work across many settings with people from varied cultural and age backgrounds. She practices using several evidence-based methods so therapy matches the problem you bring. Michelle uses skill-building, values clarification, and thoughtful conversation to help people make different choices in their daily lives.

In sessions she blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with cognitive-behavioral techniques and attachment-informed ideas. That combination lets her address difficult feelings, relationship patterns, and unhelpful thoughts while keeping attention on personal values and practical strategies. She also draws from dialectical behavior ideas to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills.

Michelle supports people dealing with trauma, abuse, chronic health struggles, caregiving stress, and body image or eating concerns. She helps with work-related strain, career transitions, and the specific stresses that come with parenting and blended families.

Therapy is offered in different online formats to fit busy lives. Michelle aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can try new ways of coping and move toward a life that feels more meaningful.

Therapy Approaches That Fit Your Life Online

Michelle commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas alongside Client-Centered methods. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take steps that match their values. Attachment-informed work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people change how they connect with others. Client-Centered therapy centers the conversation on the person's experience and helps build a trusting working relationship.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the approach as needed. That way the plan grows out of what actually helps rather than a fixed formula.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video lets you work face to face when it helps, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping focus on progress and practical skills.