About Michele
Dr. Michele Scofield is a licensed clinical social worker who brings a direct, empathetic approach to therapy. She uses plain language and practical tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction challenges, mood concerns, and ADHD.
Michele aims to make sessions clear and focused so parents can understand steps to try between meetings. She draws on client-centered work to build a respectful, collaborative relationship. That means conversations are guided by each person's goals rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
Michele also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and mindfulness skills to reduce reactivity. With three years of documented experience in the listed practice setting, she applies straightforward strategies for issues like grief, trauma, relationship strain, and self-esteem. Michele pays attention to family of origin patterns and communication problems that often underlie current struggles.
She also addresses caregiver stress, codependency, and substance use concerns in focused sessions. Sessions are offered in English from Hawaii. Michele works with people facing life changes, anger, bipolar mood challenges, and compassion fatigue.
She supports exploration around gender identity and queer-related stress as part of an inclusive practice. Work with Michele typically involves identifying clear goals, practicing small behavioral steps, and using symptom-focused tools between sessions. People leave with concrete ideas to try at home and a plan to track progress over time.
How Michele blends practical approaches with online care
Client-centered therapy puts the person's goals first and creates space for their priorities to guide each session. Michele listens closely and helps shape a plan based on what matters most to the client, whether that is reducing anxiety or managing ADHD-related challenges.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Michele uses CBT techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and to practice small behavior changes that can reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for handling intense emotions and improving communication. Skills from DBT such as distress tolerance and emotion regulation are useful for people dealing with anger, relationship conflicts, or mood swings.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Michele will talk through options and try methods that fit a person's goals and preferences. She adjusts methods as needs change so work stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video allows fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can be simpler with low bandwidth, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing brief contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family routines and changing schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
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