About Michelle
Michelle Underwood is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 15 years of experience. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, or big life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward so parents and adults can talk plainly about what’s hard.
She focuses on practical skills and clearer thinking. That can look like learning ways to manage strong emotions, making plans for recovery from addiction, or improving how someone connects with others.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with grief, body image concerns, sleep problems, or ADHD-related challenges. Michelle uses several therapy approaches to match what each person needs. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice their values and take small steps toward them.
She also uses attachment-informed work to look at how early relationships affect current trust and closeness. Sessions aim to be collaborative and down-to-earth. Michelle listens, asks direct questions, and helps people set realistic goals.
She helps create concrete strategies clients can try between sessions. Michelle practices in Florida and communicates in English. Her background includes long-term work with people facing trauma, relationship turmoil, addiction, and life transitions.
The emphasis is on helping people regain steadiness and move toward lives that feel more manageable and meaningful.
Therapy approaches you can access online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, meaningful actions even when thoughts or feelings are strong. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and making steady changes in daily life. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current trust and connection. It helps people understand attachment styles and find new ways to relate and feel safer with others.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past experiences, and preferences, and then recommend methods that fit. That process is collaborative and adjusts over time as progress and needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for in-depth conversations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and messaging can help maintain momentum between longer sessions or fit short reflections into a busy day. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into work, school, or family schedules while keeping the focus on practical steps and emotional growth.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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