About Michelle
Michelle Varady is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of counseling experience in California. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, mood problems, addiction, grief, sleep difficulties, and ADHD. Michelle listens first, then helps people build clearer routines and coping skills that fit daily life.
Her work blends straightforward skill teaching with attention to deeper patterns that keep problems recurring. She uses approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, and somatic awareness to address symptoms and reactions.
Background and approach
Sessions often include small behavior changes, thought work, and grounding exercises to reduce overwhelm. Michelle aims to help people handle intense emotions and sudden setbacks. She offers tools for panic, impulsivity, mood swings, and addiction-related challenges.
She also works with issues such as low self-esteem, guilt, codependency, and communication problems. Clients who prefer a practical, collaborative pace do well in her office. Michelle sets clear goals and checks progress each week.
She balances skill-based work with moments that look at why patterns have held on for so long. Her background as an LCSW gives her experience with complex, overlapping concerns like co-morbidity and personality-related struggles. Michelle speaks English and can work with international clients through online formats.
To start, people answer a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session when ready.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Michelle commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors. CBT sessions often focus on small experiments and practical homework that reduce anxiety and improve routines.She also uses dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. DBT-style skills can be helpful for impulsivity, panic, and intense mood swings because they offer concrete steps to manage strong feelings.
Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will ask about needs, goals, and what has or hasn't worked before, then adjust methods over time in a collaborative way.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls let people work face-to-face when that helps, phone sessions use less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options offer flexibility so therapy can continue across life changes and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Nevada, California
- Languages
- English
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