About Michele
Michele Koenes is a licensed social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and a range of life changes. She brings a practical, down-to-earth style and aims to match pace with each person's needs. Michele combines empathy with clear tools so people can move forward at a manageable rate.
She has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings and has more than 11 years of clinical experience. Before focusing on mental health work she practiced as a litigation attorney and taught in educational settings.
Background and approach
Those roles shaped her ability to listen closely, ask useful questions, and explain options clearly. Michele uses approaches drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. She leans toward collaborative care that lets clients set goals and the tempo of sessions.
Sessions focus on practical skills, values-based choices, and strengthening relationships with self and others. Clients can expect conversations that are straightforward and compassionate. Michele often helps people address sleep and eating concerns, grief and loss, caregiver stress, chronic illness challenges, and issues around self-esteem and addiction.
She also supports people coping with trauma, dissociation, and family of origin struggles. Her licenses include LMSW and LCSW and she practices from Michigan. Michele offers multiple session formats to fit different schedules and needs, with attention to what will work best for each person.
How Michele’s Approaches Translate Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while focusing on actions that match their values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety, sleeping problems, and low mood. These approaches are practical and goal-oriented, offering concrete skills to use between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Michele will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and everyday routine to decide which methods to try. She takes a collaborative stance and adjusts strategies over time based on what helps the individual make steady progress.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or work when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow for quicker check-ins, brief skill practice, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats make scheduling easier and help people access consistent care from licensed professionals regardless of distance.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, California, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
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