About Michelle
Michelle Kohut is a Nevada-based licensed counselor who brings 12 years of experience to her practice. She focuses on helping people handle stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and questions about identity. Michelle creates a calm, respectful space where people can talk honestly about what’s hard for them.
Her work centers on real-life goals like improving communication, managing workplace stress, and coping with big life changes. She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people notice thinking patterns and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Emotionally-focused methods guide conversations about closeness and trust. Michelle often supports people working through relationship and intimacy issues, grief, addiction, and challenges connected to being LGBT. She also helps with parenting strain, career concerns, anger, and self-esteem.
Her practice addresses a wide range of needs including ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue. Sessions aim to be collaborative and outcome-focused. She listens first, then helps clients set small, manageable steps.
Many clients work on communication skills, boundaries, and ways to feel more grounded day to day. Michelle blends empathy with structured strategies. She uses client-centered listening alongside behavior-focused tools so people leave sessions with clear practice and insight.
Her approach is straightforward, with attention to each person’s identity and pace.
Approaches that guide online work and what they do
Michelle often blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques. Client-centered work means the therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects what they say, and focuses on building trust and understanding; this helps when someone needs to feel heard about identity or relationship concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions, and offers practical steps to shift thinking and try different behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, mood, and stress.She also uses emotionally-focused methods to help people understand patterns around closeness and conflict. That approach helps when the goal is to improve communication or manage intimacy-related worries. Together these approaches give both empathetic listening and concrete skills to practice between sessions. Michelle will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level in a collaborative way.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to share thoughts between sessions or fit therapy into a busy day. These options help people maintain continuity of care while matching therapy to daily routines and preferences.
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What this counselor works with
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- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Nevada
- Languages
- English