About Michelle
Michelle Pellin is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. She has 11 years of experience and offers a calm, respectful approach for those struggling with addiction, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, ADHD, and more.
She holds two masters degrees - one in Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology and another in Human Services and Counseling. She also maintains licensure as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC).
Background and approach
Her background includes many years as a therapeutic foster parent and as a case manager supporting people with acquired brain injury, physical challenges, and elder care concerns. Michelle uses practical, down-to-earth methods in sessions. She focuses on what a person wants to change and offers tools they can try between meetings.
Expect a mix of talking, skill practice, and mindfulness exercises tailored to each concern. Her style is open and affirming. She pays attention to emotional safety and offers gentle guidance without judgment.
Clients keep control of their goals and pace, and Michelle helps them find workable steps toward feeling better. She brings life experience alongside clinical training, especially in working with people affected by adoption, attachment issues, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and aging concerns. Michelle emphasizes strengths, small achievable changes, and the importance of balancing mind, body, and spirit.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and situations that feel stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to change feelings. It works well for anxiety, mood, and sleep concerns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and supporting a person’s own goals rather than directing them. It helps people build confidence and feel understood.Choosing the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that match those needs. If something does not fit, they adjust the approach in later sessions to find a better match.
Online therapy makes these approaches more flexible. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for quick coaching, skill reminders, or ongoing support between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and continue progress across different settings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, Florida
- Languages
- English