Michelle Voegtle , LPC

Michelle Voegtle is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 25 years of experience helping people navigate loss, recovery, and major life changes. She focuses on practical steps that help someone feel less stuck and more able to move forward. Michelle brings a calm, direct style and encourages hope while clients work toward a clearer sense of purpose.

Michelle centers sessions on what matters now. She listens for the patterns that keep someone from choosing differently. Then she uses straightforward tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Sessions aim to build skills clients can use between meetings.

Her background includes long experience in bereavement and recovery work. That history shapes a gentle, respectful approach to grief, addiction, and caregiver stress. Michelle also supports people facing anger, career shifts, and isolation.

Therapy with her blends acceptance-based ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness practices. Motivational interviewing and client-centered listening guide the pace of work. Together these approaches help people set values-based goals and take manageable steps toward them.

Michelle often helps clients clarify life purpose and repair or redefine important relationships. She also supports those coping with midlife questions, guilt and shame, and end-of-life concerns for loved ones. Her aim is to help people create a life that feels authentic and doable.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions, and then choose steps that match what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and changing behaviors to reduce distress and improve coping. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person at the heart of care, using empathic listening to help clients discover their own direction.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will talk with each person about goals and preferences and use a mix of methods that fit those goals. The pace and techniques are adjusted together so the process feels collaborative and doable.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video can be useful for longer talks, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text can suit quick check-ins or short coaching moments. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and varied lifestyles.