About Michele
Michele Koenes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She works with adults who face grief, trauma, relationship challenges, parenting strain, and issues with sleep or eating. Michele draws on 11 years of clinical experience and practical life experience from prior work as an attorney and teacher.
Michele uses a collaborative style. She pays attention to each person’s pace and personality.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps, emotional understanding, and rebuilding everyday routines. Her background includes inpatient and outpatient settings, where she supported young adults, adults, and older adults with a wide range of concerns. That variety helped her shape flexible approaches for different situations.
Michele blends several therapy methods to match the person in front of her. She often uses cognitive-behavioral strategies to address thoughts and behaviors, acceptance-based ideas to build tolerance for difficult feelings, and attachment-informed work to strengthen relationships and sense of safety. She holds a Master of Social Work and is licensed as an LCSW in California and as an LMSW in Michigan.
Her sessions aim to be down-to-earth, focused, and paced to what each person needs. If someone wants straightforward support for coping, decision-making, or healing from loss or trauma, Michele offers that steady, experienced presence.
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Michele often combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and take small, values-based steps forward. ACT focuses on accepting difficult feelings while choosing actions that match personal values. CBT looks at thinking patterns and behavior, offering clear skills to reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy when relationship patterns or early caregiving experiences shape current struggles. That work helps people understand how they relate to others and build more reliable ways of connecting. Choosing the right approach is part of the work together; Michele will talk through options and adapt methods to fit each person’s goals and preferences.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler alternative when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching-type exchanges, and ongoing support between sessions. These formats offer flexibility so therapy can match daily schedules and practical needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, California, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English