About Michele
Michele Lewis is a licensed social worker who helps people facing grief, trauma, anxiety, and major life changes. She brings a calm, straightforward presence and aims to make therapy feel practical and usable for daily life. She has 26 years of clinical experience and holds LISW and LCSW credentials, licensed in Missouri and Iowa.
Michele works with adults dealing with stress, depression, self-esteem issues, compassion fatigue, and LGBT concerns. She also supports those coping with career questions and life transitions.
Background and approach
Michele blends several approaches rather than sticking to one method. Sessions often include mindfulness exercises, skill-building for mood and anxiety, and reflective conversation to clarify values and goals. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance-based work to help people change unhelpful patterns.
She also has experience with aging and geriatric concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, hospice and end-of-life topics, and issues that grow out of family of origin patterns. Michele addresses complicated grief, codependency, communication problems, and feelings of emptiness with gentle, practical steps.
Her style is warm and accepting, focused on helping clients try new ways of coping and communicate more clearly. Michele encourages short-term goals and skills people can practice between sessions so progress is tangible. Clients meet with her for structured conversations, guided exercises, and problem-solving that fit their everyday schedule and needs.
How Michele’s Approaches Translate to Online Sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts while taking steps that match their values. Online ACT work often includes values clarification and simple actions clients can try between sessions to build a life that matters to them.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes being heard and understood. In remote sessions this means the therapist offers open questions, reflective listening, and space for people to find their own solutions at their own pace.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on practical skills to change thinking and behavior patterns. Through video or messaging, clients learn tools for mood and anxiety management and practice them during weekly check-ins.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Michele collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort with online formats. Clients and therapist review what helps and adjust the plan as time goes on.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers no video. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, journaling between sessions, or when someone needs a shorter contact during the day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other obligations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Iowa
- Languages
- English