About Michele
Michele Davis is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of practice based in Arizona. She focuses on helping people manage addiction, grief, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. Michele uses a warm, straightforward style so people can talk honestly about what feels hard right now.
She frames sessions around each person's goals. Michele listens for patterns that get in the way, then suggests practical steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
She pays attention to attachment and relationship patterns and how those affect daily life and stress. Michele often works with people facing parenting challenges, caregiver strain, chronic illness, or the aftermath of trauma and loss. She also supports those coping with career shifts, identity questions, and relationship difficulties that affect mood and self-esteem.
Her experience includes adoption and foster care concerns, blended family issues, and aging-related stress. Her approach blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness practices. Michele also draws on psychodynamic and attachment perspectives when helpful to understand long-standing patterns.
The goal is to build skills for coping while also making space to process painful feelings. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Michele helps clients try small experiments, learn calming skills, and practice clearer communication.
She works with people who want practical tools and a steady professional to talk things through as they make changes.
Approaches you can use online
Michele often uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people notice how they connect, feel safe, or get triggered in close relationships. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy which focuses on listening and reflecting so clients feel understood and can set their own pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, or stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Michele will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made or new issues appear.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video sessions support face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are handy for brief check-ins, coaching, or when someone prefers writing. These options make therapy more flexible for people juggling caregiving, work, or health concerns.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English