About Michelle
Michelle Chabot creates a calm, straightforward space for people who feel stuck or overwhelmed. She listens for what matters most and helps clients set clear, manageable goals. Michelle aims to walk alongside people as they make changes and find new ways to cope.
Michelle holds a Master’s in Professional Counseling and is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado. She brings three years of counseling experience and a background that includes 12 years of military service in the Air Force.
Background and approach
That experience shapes her understanding of career transition, relocation stress, trauma, and relationship strain that can come from life changes. In sessions she focuses on identifying patterns that keep someone stuck and building small, practical steps toward improvement. She draws on strategies that reframe unhelpful thoughts, highlight strengths, and set achievable goals.
Michelle also uses listening techniques and motivational strategies to help people find momentum. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including relationships, parenting, self-esteem, grief, addictions, trauma, ADHD, and career questions. She also supports people facing fertility or adoption-related stress, caregiver burden, and issues related to infidelity, divorce, or separation.
Michelle works with individuals, couples, and parents to build resilience and clearer communication. Sessions often include setting short-term goals, practicing new ways to respond, and planning next steps to keep progress moving forward.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Michelle uses a few practical, evidence-based techniques that translate well to online work. Cognitive-behavioral approaches focus on noticing thoughts and testing whether they help or hold someone back; sessions include skill practice and step-by-step plans to change responses. Narrative-informed work helps people tell and reorganize their story, highlighting strengths and different meanings that reduce shame or stuckness. Motivational strategies support people who feel stuck or ambivalent about change by clarifying values and building small steps toward goals.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and current challenges. That means checking in about what is helpful, adjusting methods, and planning concrete homework or practice between sessions.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skill coaching and role play. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support ongoing coaching, brief updates, and timely encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English