About Michelle
Michelle Consavage is a licensed social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and ADHD-related concerns. She brings 24 years of clinical experience and a calm, respectful approach to conversations about life changes and coping skills. She focuses on the whole person - mind, body, and spirit - and adapts sessions to each person's needs.
That can mean practical skill-building one week and reflective, meaning-focused work the next.
Background and approach
Michelle aims to make therapy feel like a conversation rather than a lecture. Her style draws on client-centered methods that follow the person's lead. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try small experiments to change behavior.
Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to help with stress and grounding. With a background in psychodynamic ideas and motivational interviewing, she pays attention to recurring patterns and to what motivates change. Sessions often include questions that help people notice long-standing beliefs and try new responses.
The work is collaborative and paced to what each person can manage. Michelle works with adults who want clear tools and steady support during difficult times. She tailors plans to practical life demands like parenting stress, career changes, chronic health concerns, or the emotional fallout of loss.
Conversations aim to build everyday coping skills and restore a sense of control and direction.
Approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy is about following the person's lead and building a trusting working relationship. It focuses on what matters most to the person and adapts to their pace, which helps when addressing stress, bereavement, or low self-esteem.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. It helps people identify unhelpful thinking, try small experiments, and develop practical coping strategies for anxiety, mood, and ADHD-related challenges.
Mindfulness therapy brings simple exercises to the session to increase awareness and reduce reactivity. These practices can help with anger, stress, chronic pain, and staying present during difficult emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to decide which combination of methods fits their goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions often shift over time as priorities change and progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls enable face-to-face conversations for skill practice and deeper discussion. Phone sessions can be easier when a quieter or lower-bandwidth option is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for short check-ins, brief coaching, or between-session support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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