About Michelle
Michelle Cohen Negri offers focused support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, or questions about intimacy and self-worth. She speaks plainly and helps people break down big problems into small, doable steps. Michelle lists her credential as a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - and practices from Florida.
Sessions are conducted in English and use online formats such as video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Michelle draws on a background as a former professional athlete to encourage discipline, resilience, and steady progress.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses practical tools to help manage distress and build emotional regulation. Work tends to be collaborative and strengths-focused, so clients leave with concrete strategies they can try between meetings. She helps people cope with grief, bereavement, and trauma-related symptoms.
Michelle also supports those managing chronic or serious illness, parenting stress, and relationship concerns tied to communication and intimacy. Body image, self-esteem, and issues around guilt, shame, or forgiveness are common topics she addresses. Therapy sessions often include goal-setting, skill building, and mindfulness practices to calm strong emotions.
Michelle aims to identify what already works for a person and what gets in the way of change. Then she helps create realistic steps that align with each person’s values and pace. Her style is warm, direct, and practical.
She encourages people to try small experiments between sessions and to track what changes. Michelle believes in each person’s capacity to grow and regain a clearer sense of purpose.
Approaches and how online therapy fits
Michelle draws on several evidence-based techniques to help people manage distress and build skills. Cognitive behavioral approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Mindfulness-based practices teach simple attention and breathing skills that calm intense feelings and improve emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Michelle collaborates with each person to figure out what fits their goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they try methods, notice what helps, and adjust the plan as needed so progress is practical and sustainable.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care easier to schedule. Video offers a fuller face-to-face feel while phone calls can be quicker and use less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging allow for short check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent with a busy life.
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- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English