About Michelle
Michelle Jones is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Missouri with nine years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and ADHD. Her tone is calm and direct, aimed at people who want practical support and clear next steps.
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help clients name what feels hard and build everyday strategies. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented.
Background and approach
She helps people develop routines, improve communication, and manage painful memories so daily life becomes more workable. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. Michelle listens closely and offers straightforward tools rather than long explanations.
She blends short-term coping skills with longer-term work on patterns that keep problems returning. Michelle also addresses concerns related to abandonment, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, attachment issues, and body image. She helps people untangle co-occurring problems like depression with anxiety, or communication problems tied to commitment worries.
People who choose Michelle often want a practical plan and a steady therapeutic partner. She works with adults to set small, measurable goals and track progress. The work aims to reduce day-to-day stress and improve how people relate to themselves and others.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help clients develop coping skills and address underlying patterns. One common strand is skill-based work that teaches concrete tools for managing anxiety and stress, such as activity planning, breaking tasks into smaller steps, and simple breathing or grounding practices. These techniques are useful for day-to-day symptoms and for improving focus when ADHD symptoms get in the way.Another focus is trauma-informed work that helps people process painful experiences and reduce their impact on current relationships and routines. This involves pacing the work, building safety around memories, and adding new behavioral habits to replace old, unhelpful patterns.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle will discuss options with each person, try methods that fit their goals, and adjust plans based on what helps most. Clients set priorities and the therapist helps test what works in real life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can fit a short check-in or lower bandwidth times, and messaging or live chat can support quick troubleshooting or ongoing tracking between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy routines and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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