About Michele
Michele Kahn is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of practice in Arizona. She brings steady experience to conversations about relationship strain, intimacy, self-esteem, career worries, and major life changes. Michele speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
She starts by listening to each person’s story and acknowledging their strengths. Michele believes clients are the experts on their lives and that therapy should build on what already works.
Background and approach
She often draws on creative arts methods alongside talk therapy to open new ways of understanding and coping. In sessions she helps people name what feels stuck and try small, manageable changes. Michele works with issues ranging from mood struggles and postpartum depression to money concerns and feeling isolated.
She also supports those facing midlife transitions, body image and eating struggles, blended family challenges, and the emotional effects of cancer and aging. Michele keeps the work down to earth. Conversations aim for clearer priorities, improved confidence, and better communication.
She encourages steps that fit each person’s life and values rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Her Arizona licensure is LCSW, and she uses that clinical background to guide assessments and care. If someone is ready to begin, Michele helps them set realistic goals and track small wins along the way.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Many clients benefit from straightforward, evidence-based techniques that focus on changing thoughts, building skills, and trying new behaviors. One approach helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and choose alternative ways of thinking to ease mood and reduce worry. This can be useful for low mood, anxiety, and problems that repeat over time.Another common approach centers on skill building - learning concrete strategies for communication, emotional regulation, and problem solving. These skills are practical for relationship concerns, career stress, and coping with life transitions. Michele also blends creative arts tools to help people express things words sometimes miss, which can open new insights.
Picking the right method is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose techniques to try and adjust them as progress is made, so the process feels collaborative rather than fixed.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match daily routines. Video is good when face-to-face interaction helps, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging fits short check-ins or times when typing feels simpler. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, California
- Languages
- English