About Michelle
Michelle Gibbs-Parrish is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Florida. She brings 15 years of experience to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use when life feels overwhelming. Michelle centers the conversation on each person’s goals and strengths and helps them find ways to move forward.
She helps people manage stress and anxiety and cope with addictions and mood disorders. She also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, anger, and relationship challenges.
Background and approach
Michelle works with concerns related to self esteem, compassion fatigue, and life changes. Her approach draws on several proven methods. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take meaningful action.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. Client-Centered Therapy provides space for people to feel heard and understood. Sessions focus on real-life skills and small, steady changes.
Michelle aims to make therapy direct and understandable so people can apply what they learn between meetings. Conversations are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Michelle offers sessions in English and practices across several online formats.
She holds the Florida LCSW credential - FL LCSW SW16497 - and works with people looking for practical support with day-to-day struggles and longer-standing issues.
How Michelle’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name what matters and take small actions that match those values; it can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to change mood and reactions to stress. Client-Centered Therapy gives people a respectful, nonjudgmental space to talk and be heard while they consider change.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Michelle will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that feel like a good fit. The plan can shift over time based on what helps most in real life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English