About Michelle
Michelle Fennessy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who practices in Florida. She brings 20 years of experience to therapy and aims to make the first step easier for people who are nervous about reaching out. Michelle speaks plainly and focuses on helping people feel heard and understood as they work on change.
She uses practical strategies drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and addictive behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness skills are woven into sessions to help calm the body and steady thinking. Solution-focused conversations are used to set clear, achievable goals and track progress. Michelle often helps people coping with grief, relationship heartbreak, intimacy concerns, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports clients facing parenting stress, career transitions, and major life changes. Additional focus areas include body image concerns, caregiver strain, eating-related issues, and struggles with guilt or shame. Her style is warm and direct.
She notices strengths early and helps clients build on what already works. Sessions include clear tools, short experiments to try between meetings, and step-by-step plans to test new ways of reacting and relating. Michelle offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, and she accepts international clients.
Costs vary by location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice thoughts without getting stuck in them and pick actions that match their values. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and navigating life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and replaces them with practical, testable alternatives to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and steady strong emotions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences and recommend which methods to try first. That plan is collaborative and can be adjusted as you test tools and notice what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can fit a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or when someone prefers writing their thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English