Michelle Underwood , LMHC

Michelle Underwood is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes in a calm, practical way. Her work often focuses on relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, addiction recovery, and identity questions. She offers straightforward support for common problems like sleep, eating, anger, and low self-esteem.

Michelle uses several therapeutic approaches tailored to each person's needs. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small, meaningful actions. Attachment-based ideas guide work on patterns in close relationships and related emotions. Client-centered principles keep the conversation grounded in the person's own perspective and goals.

Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused. Michelle helps people set clear, manageable steps and checks progress together. She brings 15 years of practice to each session while staying adaptable to individual preferences.

She works with a broad range of life concerns, including trauma and abuse, substance use, grief, parenting stress, ADHD, and body-image struggles. Michelle is especially attentive when abandonment, codependency, or family-of-origin issues are part of the picture.

Michelle practices in Florida and provides care in English. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at helping people build practical coping skills and clearer directions for change.

Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, meaningful actions toward those values. It often benefits people facing anxiety, stress, or life transitions by shifting focus from trying to eliminate difficult feelings to building a values-driven life.

Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early and close relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can be used to identify those patterns, practice new ways of relating, and repair trust and emotional connection in ongoing relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they will choose or blend methods that fit the individual's situation and adjust the plan over time.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make scheduling more flexible. Video lets people read facial expression and tone, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into workdays, caregiving routines, or travel without losing continuity of care.