About Michele
Michele Gouin is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people facing family stress, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, depression, anxiety, and ADHD. She aims to create a respectful, sensitive space where clients can talk about what matters most to them. Michele adapts conversations and care to each person’s situation and goals.
Her style is warm and practical. She listens first, then helps clients set clear, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Michele uses straightforward techniques to build confidence and reduce overwhelm. She focuses on small changes that add up over time. In sessions she mixes client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy.
That combination helps people notice unhelpful thought patterns and try new behaviors between meetings. Emotionally-focused work is used to deepen understanding of attachment and relationship patterns when needed. Michele has worked across settings over her career, supporting people through grief, caregiving stress, divorce, and life transitions.
She has particular experience with blended family issues, adoption and foster care topics, and impulse control concerns. Her background includes helping people manage co-occurring mood conditions such as bipolar and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. People who meet with Michele can expect a collaborative pace.
She explains options, checks in about progress, and adjusts plans as concerns shift. The focus is on practical steps that fit each person’s life and daily routines.
How Michele’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person without judgement. It helps clients feel heard and guides therapists to shape support around each person's priorities.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, offers concrete tools to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and problems with motivation or impulsivity.
Emotionally-focused therapy looks at how emotions shape reactions and relationships. It can help people gain clarity about attachment patterns and improve emotional connection in important relationships.
Michele treats the choice of approach as a team decision. She will talk with clients about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. The aim is to find practical tools that feel useful in day-to-day life.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls let people work face to face without travel. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is low or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short updates or ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These formats support continuity and flexibility while clients work on goals with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Nevada, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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