About Michele
Michele Keller is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Missouri. She has 15 years of clinical experience and helps people who are struggling with anxiety, depression, stress, relationship issues, low self-esteem, grief, addictive behaviors, and major life changes. She came to counseling as a second career after many years in the travel industry.
That background gave her broad life experience and comfort talking with people from different walks of life.
Background and approach
Michele has worked in independent practice and in intensive outpatient programs, so she is familiar with both short-term and longer-term care. Her style is straightforward and warm. She focuses on practical skills people can use between sessions.
Michele uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help with mood, strong emotions, and relationship patterns. She also incorporates client-centered and mindfulness approaches so sessions stay focused on each person's goals. Motivational interviewing is used when someone needs help finding internal motivation for change.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to what each person can manage. Michele supports adults dealing with caregiving stress, chronic illness, blended family concerns, career challenges, and issues around intimacy or sexual expression. Her experience includes work with people facing trauma, dissociation, ADHD, and complex co-occurring concerns.
She aims to help people build emotion regulation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Approach-driven care through online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so the person feels heard and understood. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort out feelings and decide next steps.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches practical skills to change them. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with life changes.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal communication. It is helpful for strong emotions, relationship struggles, and improving day-to-day coping.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michele will discuss goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they choose strategies and adjust them as needed so sessions match what the person needs.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is close to an in-person visit and works well for teaching skills. Phone can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is preferred. Chat and messaging allow brief updates, homework, or ongoing support between appointments. These formats give flexibility to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health-related schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English