About Michelle
Michelle Boodry is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Wisconsin with eleven years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with trauma, relationship struggles, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Her style is direct and compassionate, and she encourages clients to use their own strengths as part of the work.
Michelle uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, often called EMDR, to address traumatic memories and the strong emotions they bring up.
Background and approach
She also helps clients with self-esteem, motivation, intimacy concerns, and coping skills for stress and grief. Sessions aim to be practical and focused on what the client wants to change. Her approach begins with listening to each person's story and priorities.
Michelle lays out clear steps and techniques, then works with clients to try them and adjust as needed. Progress is tracked in ways that match a person’s goals rather than relying on jargon. People who come to her can expect focused conversations that move toward specific changes.
Michelle supports building coping tools, improving communication, and sorting through difficult feelings. She also offers coaching-style guidance for career and life decisions when that fits the client's goals. Therapy is offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Getting started involves completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling sessions according to availability.
How targeted approaches and online care work together
EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, helps people process traumatic memories that keep causing strong reactions. It uses guided attention and structured steps to reduce the intensity of distress linked to past events and helps people feel less overwhelmed by those memories.Alongside EMDR, Michelle uses practical skills-based work for anxiety, stress, and relationship concerns. This often means learning coping strategies, practicing communication, and setting small, achievable goals to improve day-to-day functioning.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about options, explain how they work, and tailor the plan to a client's goals and comfort level. Clients and the therapist regularly review progress and adjust methods as needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions that include detailed work. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging let clients send quick updates or work through ideas between longer meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain regular contact with licensed professionals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English