About Michelle
Michelle Kohut is a Nevada licensed clinical professional counselor with 12 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, or big life changes. She also supports those working through relationship and identity questions, including people from LGBT communities and those managing ADHD.
She creates a calm, accepting space where clients set the pace. Sessions center on understanding what matters to the person and finding practical ways to cope.
Background and approach
Michelle listens for patterns that get in the way and helps people try different strategies until something fits. Her work draws on client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral tools to address unhelpful thought and behavior cycles. She also uses emotion-focused ideas to improve how people connect and respond in relationships.
Mindfulness practices are introduced when they help reduce reactivity and increase focus. Michelle often helps with workplace stress, grief, and shifting roles like parenting or career changes. She also supports people dealing with addiction concerns, anger, body image, and intimacy-related struggles.
These sessions aim to build steady routines and clearer communication skills. Therapy with her is collaborative and goal-oriented. She works with each person to set realistic steps and checks progress along the way.
The approach is practical and paced to match a client's needs and life demands.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens deeply and follows the client's lead to help them feel understood and make choices that fit their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to change them. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and attention-related difficulties.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging can fit into busy days and allow ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to match therapy to real-life schedules and practical needs.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Nevada
- Languages
- English
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