About Michele
Michele Bowen is a licensed social worker in Michigan with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, and self-esteem concerns. Michele aims to make the first step toward change less daunting by offering steady, practical support.
Her approach blends attachment-based ideas with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. She uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and EMDR to help people manage strong emotions and process difficult memories.
Background and approach
Sessions often include breathing, grounding, and simple body-based techniques when those fit the person’s needs. Michele has worked in behavioral healthcare since 1994. That background includes work with people facing co-occurring substance use and mental health challenges, and those coping with complex trauma and dissociation.
She brings experience with grief, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and veteran-related issues. In sessions she focuses on building a nonjudgmental space where people can talk through thoughts and feelings. Michele helps clients identify goals, try practical skills, and notice small changes over time.
She encourages strengths-based work and the development of everyday routines that support healing. She holds the credentials Licensed Master Social Worker and Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Michele integrates mindfulness, light movement, and practical coping tools into therapy for those who want them.
Her style is collaborative, steady, and focused on helping people move toward a more manageable life.
How Michele blends proven approaches for online care
Michele often uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, which helps people process traumatic memories by guiding attention while recalling distressing events. It can be useful for people struggling with past abuse, intrusive memories, or persistent trauma reactions.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments. CBT is helpful for anxiety, panic, and mood concerns because it teaches concrete skills for managing thinking and behavior. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are added when stronger emotion regulation and distress tolerance tools are needed.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative step in therapy. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, past experiences with therapy, and personal preferences. Together they will decide whether to try EMDR, CBT skills, DBT techniques, or a mix that fits the situation.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video lets people work face to face and use visual tools. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send notes or use brief coaching between sessions. These options help fit therapy around work, caregiving, or mobility limitations while keeping the focus on steady skill practice and progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dissociation
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Michigan
- Languages
- English