About Michelle
Michelle Burdick is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan who focuses on helping people navigate major life changes and career transitions. She combines counseling skills with prior human resources experience to support clients facing stress, anxiety, grief, and career uncertainty. Michelle speaks English and works with clients in and beyond the U.S.
Michelle uses straightforward talk and practical tools in sessions. She helps clients clarify values, set career goals, and reduce the fear that can stall job searches or changes.
Background and approach
For people coping with cancer, fertility issues, or other health-related life changes, she offers ways to manage emotional strain and find direction. Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also uses Existential ideas to help clients consider life purpose and meaning.
Mindfulness techniques are introduced to reduce anxiety and improve day-to-day coping. Michelle brings three years of counseling experience alongside a background in human resources. That HR experience informs hands-on career support such as resume and interviewing help, networking strategies, and interview confidence work.
She aims to blend practical career guidance with emotional support. Sessions focus on clear steps and achievable goals. Clients can expect a collaborative process where problems are broken into manageable tasks.
The goal is better coping, clearer decisions, and forward movement in work and life areas.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Michelle commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems going. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and social phobia because it focuses on practical steps and skill building. She also draws on Existential Therapy to help clients examine values, life purpose, and big decisions when facing change or loss. That approach encourages reflection about meaning and direction in life. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Michelle will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and challenges and recommend the mix of techniques that seems most helpful. The process is collaborative and adjustments are made as needs change. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and exercises, while phone sessions can be better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching touches, or when someone wants shorter, more frequent support. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, fitting sessions into work breaks, or staying connected while traveling.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English