About Michelle
Michelle Coffey is a licensed clinical social worker who aims to partner with people facing stressful life changes. She uses a person-centered approach and practical problem solving to help clients set realistic goals and make steady progress. Michelle brings seven years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on straightforward, respectful conversation.
She listens for what matters most and helps people name small steps that lead to change. Sessions often include talking through thoughts and behaviors, trying brief exercises, and planning actions to test new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Michelle pays attention to how past wounds affect current relationships and daily life. Her background includes work with anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and substance use. She also supports people dealing with grief, caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image, and work or career transitions.
Michelle is experienced with concerns related to ADHD, bipolar mood patterns, and compassion fatigue. Her approach draws on client-centered methods alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools when helpful. She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing strategies to help people stay engaged in change.
The focus is practical: what helps this person now, in their life. Michelle practices in Florida and holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential. She conducts sessions in English and offers several online formats for scheduling and follow-up work.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s goals. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects what she hears, and helps people clarify what matters most. This approach is useful for building trust and deciding next steps together.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses simple exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and try alternative actions. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, stress, and patterns that keep problems going.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication. It includes techniques for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness that many people find practical in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that match those priorities. Decisions about which tools to use are made together and adjusted over time.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation; phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit shorter updates, coaching-style work, or quick coping reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different ways of connecting.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida, New York
- Languages
- English