About Michelle
Michelle Schmidt is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Wisconsin with 19 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, or ADHD-related challenges. Michelle aims to make the first step toward change feel manageable and steady.
Michelle draws on strengths people already have to find practical ways forward. She has worked in outpatient settings and in clients' homes, so she is familiar with real-life pressures and the small adjustments that can help.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at clarifying goals and trying simple strategies that fit everyday life. Her approach emphasizes solution-focused thinking that builds on what is working. That often means identifying existing coping skills and expanding them to tackle the most pressing problems.
Michelle guides people through setting clear, achievable steps and tracking progress together. She also supports people coping with trauma, family problems, addiction, and issues around intimacy or self-esteem. Grief, caregiver stress, postpartum depression, and end-of-life concerns are additional areas she addresses with compassion and practical planning.
Michelle works with a wide range of adult concerns including bipolar disorder, seasonal mood changes, and young adult transitions. She strives to create straightforward sessions that break problems into manageable pieces and build on each person’s strengths.
How Michelle’s approaches work in online therapy
Michelle uses strengths-based and solution-focused methods that aim to find practical steps you can try between sessions. Strengths-based work looks for skills and resources a person already has and builds on them to handle stress, caregiving strain, or day-to-day demands. Solution-focused work narrows in on clear goals and small experiments you can test right away to see what helps.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Michelle will talk with each person about their goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, so therapy stays relevant to changing needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video sessions work well for longer conversations and visual cues, while phone calls use less bandwidth and can be easier during busy days. Live chat and messaging let people check in more frequently, do shorter goal-setting, or get support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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