About Michele
Michele Lescard helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and life changes. She works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, addictions, sleeping problems, anger, bipolar mood issues, and self-esteem. Michele also supports people dealing with family conflict and career stress.
She is Michele Lescard, a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Florida with 15 years of experience. Michele keeps sessions straightforward and practical. She listens first, then helps set clear, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Therapy focuses on building everyday skills to cope better and feel more in control. Sessions aim to leave people with tools they can use between appointments. Her background includes a Master of Social Work completed in 2002.
Michele has worked with adults who have special needs, including autism and intellectual disability, and with people facing complex life situations like adoption, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and aging concerns. She brings long experience in helping people navigate loss, separation, and domestic violence-related impacts. Michele draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, emotionally-focused work, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing.
She blends these to match what each person needs and prefers. The goal is steady progress, not quick fixes. People who choose Michele can expect a warm, non-judgmental tone.
She helps clients find strengths, build a toolbox of coping strategies, and take practical steps toward their goals. Her practice supports English-speaking clients in Florida and internationally.
How Michele’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered work focuses on the person’s needs and goals. It means the therapist listens closely and follows the client’s lead to set priorities and next steps. This approach helps with relationship stress, self-esteem, and figuring out what matters most.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy involves looking at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Michele uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns and to build better daily routines. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleeping problems, and stress management.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at emotions and how they shape connections and reactions. It helps people understand strong feelings and improve communication during conflict or after loss.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michele will talk with each person about goals, needs, and comfort with different methods. Together they choose or blend approaches so therapy fits the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face work and practice of communication skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Text or chat is helpful for short check-ins, writing through thoughts, and staying connected between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit regular sessions into a busy life and to keep steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English