About Michelle
Michelle Curry is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of experience. She offers steady, straightforward support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and identity concerns. Michelle aims to listen without judgment and to help people find practical ways forward.
She focuses on everyday struggles that affect mood and relationships. That includes parenting challenges, intimacy-related issues, career stress, and coping with major life changes. Michelle also addresses trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and concerns about self-esteem and body image.
Background and approach
Her style is calm and direct. Sessions center on hearing the person’s story, naming what matters, and trying simple strategies that can fit into daily life. She offers empathy and tools so people can test changes between meetings.
Michelle has worked in Illinois settings that involved adoption and foster care, blended family issues, aging and geriatric concerns, and caregiver stress. She has experience with a range of personality and developmental issues and with complex, co-occurring difficulties. Conversations in sessions may cover communication problems, codependency, control issues, and coping after disasters.
Michelle aims to help people build clearer patterns and stronger coping skills over time. She practices in English and holds an Illinois license as LCSW 149.015555.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical steps people can try. One approach helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new ways of thinking and acting to reduce anxiety and depression. Another approach focuses on understanding how past hurts and trauma affect current relationships and helps people develop safer ways to process those experiences.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the person’s needs and adjust them over time if something isn’t working.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when that is preferred. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging can support brief updates, coaching between sessions, or a way to stay connected when a full session isn’t possible.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English