About Michelle
Michelle Smith is a licensed professional counselor and licensed independent mental health practitioner based in Nebraska with 15 years of clinical experience. She helps people who feel stuck by guiding them toward greater self-trust and clearer priorities. Her style is calm and direct, and she focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions.
Many people reach out during hard transitions. Michelle supports those facing grief, burnout, anxiety, mood changes, and traumatic memories.
Background and approach
She also helps with relationship challenges, self-esteem, parenting stress, career shifts, and questions about gender and identity. Michelle draws from a few grounded approaches to shape sessions. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Attachment-informed work helps clients understand how early connections shape current relationships. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports people in clarifying values and taking steps that match those values. Sessions are conversational and collaborative.
Michelle pays attention to the nervous system and to practical coping skills. She works at a pace set by each person, helping them build skills, try new behaviors, and reflect on what matters. Her goal is to help people heal from loss, reduce overwhelm, and build a meaningful next chapter.
Michelle aims to help clients reconnect with their authenticity and find steady ways to move forward.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Michelle often blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy during remote sessions. CBT focuses on identifying thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. ACT helps people clarify their values, accept difficult emotions without getting stuck, and commit to meaningful actions that move life forward.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client talk about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they try strategies, adjust techniques, and pick tools that fit the person’s day-to-day life and long-term aims.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues help the work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging allow quick check-ins, journaling-style reflection, and short skill practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around school, work, and family obligations while still focusing on concrete change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska, Colorado
- Languages
- English