About Michelle
Michelle Kyles is a licensed professional counselor in Virginia with over ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, addiction concerns, and major life changes. Michelle aims to make the first step toward change feel less overwhelming by offering steady support and practical next steps.
Michelle creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what’s most difficult for them. She listens closely to each person’s story and works together with them to set clear, achievable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and focused on the problems that matter most to the client. Her work draws on client-centered care, which emphasizes the person’s own pace and priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help identify unhelpful thoughts and practice new ways of responding.
Motivational interviewing techniques are used when clients want help making changes, especially around habits and addictions. Michelle addresses a wide range of concerns including self-esteem, ADHD, trauma and abuse, and social anxiety. She pays attention to cultural and multicultural factors and how prejudice or discrimination may affect someone’s wellbeing.
Her approach is practical and conversational rather than overly clinical. Outside of sessions she brings ten years of experience to planning treatment that fits each person’s life. The focus is on small, manageable steps that build toward longer-term change.
Michelle supports people as they work toward clearer thinking, healthier habits, and stronger relationships.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Michelle often combines client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral techniques to guide online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s pace, which helps people clarify what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood and teaches specific skills to change unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is something she treats as a collaboration. She discusses goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked before, then adjusts methods over time. Clients are involved in deciding whether a skills focus, motivational work, or a gentler conversational style fits best.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use facial cues and more natural conversation, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick updates, briefs between sessions, or when someone prefers typing to talking. These choices 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Depression
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English