About Michele
Michele Stolper is a licensed clinical social worker offering calm, practical support to adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and life changes. She works to make conversations feel straightforward and aimed at real problems. Michele uses clear, compassionate guidance so people can find manageable next steps.
She brings 14 years of experience and holds both a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker credential and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential. Michele practices in Florida and focuses on helping people cope with depression, compassion fatigue, and the everyday pressure of caregiving and work stress.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm and restore a sense of control. Michele helps clients untangle relationship patterns such as codependency, commitment worries, infidelity, and separation. She also supports those dealing with fertility concerns, cancer-related stress, hospice and end-of-life questions, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
The goal is practical change rather than abstract theory. Her work often centers on attachment and how early patterns affect current relationships. Michele guides people through steps to improve communication, set boundaries, and rebuild trust in themselves.
She prefers short, focused plans with tools people can use between sessions. Conversations are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Michele aims to help people reclaim purpose, mend strained connections, and manage emotional load with clearer thinking and kinder self-talk.
How Michele’s Approaches Work Online
Michele uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional regulation. One approach helps people identify unhelpful patterns in relationships and daily life, then try small behavioral changes to test different outcomes. This is useful for issues like codependency, commitment worries, and improving communication.Another common focus is on developing coping skills for anxiety, stress, and caregiver burden. Sessions teach quick grounding strategies, pacing techniques, and ways to reduce emotional overload so people can function better day to day. These methods aim to be simple to practice between appointments.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Michele works with each person to set goals, review what helps, and adjust techniques as needed. She matches methods to the client’s situation, preferences, and what feels doable in real life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which provide flexibility for different routines. Video is helpful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit a work break, and chat or text messaging offer quick check-ins or shorter touchpoints between sessions. These options make consistent care easier to maintain alongside busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, Florida, District of Columbia, Montana, South Dakota
- Languages
- English