About Michelle
Michelle Brody is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Florida. She focuses on creating a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about hard things. She makes room for honest feelings and helps clients take small steps toward change.
Brody listens for patterns that make life harder, such as negative self-talk or strained communication. She uses practical conversation and exercises to help people notice and shift those patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a pace set by the client and focus on goals the client cares about. Her work covers stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family difficulties, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. She also supports people who identify as LGBT and those dealing with addiction, compassion fatigue, sleeping problems, anger, or career stress.
ADHD is listed among her focus areas and she addresses symptoms through talk-based strategies and coping skills. Michelle draws on client-centered, strength-based, solution-focused, and cognitive behavioral methods. That means she centers the client's priorities, highlights strengths, tries practical steps, and helps people notice and reframe unhelpful thoughts.
The aim is clearer thinking, calmer reactions, and better communication. Starting therapy is framed as a step of courage. Brody works to make the process straightforward - identifying one or two goals, trying specific strategies between sessions, and checking progress regularly.
She encourages people to reach out when they want steady support and practical tools.
Approaches and how online therapy fits your life
Michelle uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. This approach breaks worries or negative thinking into manageable parts and teaches practical ways to respond differently, which can help with anxiety, low mood, and sleep issues.She also uses solution-focused and strength-based techniques that zero in on clients' goals and existing resources. These methods involve setting small, doable steps and building on what already works for the person, which is useful for career concerns, coping with change, and improving communication.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust methods over time so the work matches needs, preferences, and day-to-day realities.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging works well for brief check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These formats aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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