About Michelle
Michelle Edmond is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Florida. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, anger, parenting challenges, and depression. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at making early steps feel manageable for someone worried about starting therapy.
Michelle uses a calm, open approach to make conversation easier. She focuses on listening first and then working with each person to set simple goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are meant to be a place to say what matters and get practical ideas that fit daily life. Her work draws on several well-known methods, including client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, and solution-focused strategies. These tools are used to identify unhelpful patterns, try new ways of coping, and build specific steps toward change.
She also incorporates narrative and motivational techniques when they match a person’s needs. Michelle has five years focused clinical experience and holds the license LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Her practice is based in Florida and she conducts sessions in English.
She aims to keep things straightforward and avoids clinical jargon so people can focus on progress. When someone is ready to begin, Michelle helps them map out the first few steps and tailors the pace to what feels doable. The emphasis is on practical work, steady support, and adjusting strategies until they fit the person’s life.
Practical approaches for online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s perspective. The therapist reflects feelings and helps the person find their own solutions, which can be useful for stress, relationship tensions, and parenting worries. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It breaks problems into concrete parts and offers exercises to change unhelpful patterns, helpful for anxiety, anger, and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Michelle will discuss these methods and adapt them based on a person’s goals and preferences. That means trying ideas, checking what helps, and shifting course when needed in a collaborative way.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, day-to-day coaching, or when someone prefers typing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and different life situations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English