About Michelle
Michelle Goehring is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 12 years of practice in Louisiana. She offers calm, direct support for common struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, eating concerns, and problems with self-esteem. Michelle meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps you can take right now.
She uses straightforward conversation to identify what is causing the most trouble. Then she helps you try simple skills and small changes to reduce distress.
Background and approach
These steps are explained in everyday language so they are easy to use between sessions. Her background includes work with mood disorders, panic, ADHD, addiction, and issues around body image and identity. Michelle also addresses relationship strain, communication problems, and life transitions like divorce or illness.
She draws on several therapeutic approaches to match the work to your situation. Sessions are meant to feel collaborative. Michelle encourages people to set clear goals and to test what helps in daily life.
She guides skill practice, reflection, and problem solving so progress feels tangible. People who prefer a down-to-earth, goal-focused style often find this approach helpful. Michelle aims to offer supportive feedback and practical tools that fit into a busy life.
She will work with you to find what makes the most sense for your needs.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful steps toward them. It helps when anxiety, low mood, or avoidance get in the way of living the life you want.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and habits and offers tools to change them. It is useful for panic, depression, sleep trouble, and many everyday worries.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with you about your goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before. Together you will choose methods and try them for a few weeks to see what fits best.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let you see each other and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is tiring. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easy to check in between sessions or to have shorter, focused exchanges when a full session is not needed.
These formats give flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, family, or medical concerns. Licensed professionals can adapt techniques across formats so the work stays focused and useful.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English