About Michelle
Michelle Jones is a licensed clinical social worker with nine years of practice in Missouri. She offers steady, down-to-earth support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and the challenges of ADHD. Michelle aims to make sessions feel practical and focused so people can find ways to cope day to day.
Her background centers on person-focused care that leans on evidence-based therapeutic techniques. She helps people untangle painful memories and strong emotions, and she works with them to build clearer communication and healthier coping habits.
Background and approach
Michelle also addresses issues tied to adoption and foster care, abandonment, attachment concerns, and blended family stress. She pays attention to the everyday results of emotional pain, such as body image worries, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and co-occurring mental health concerns. She supports people navigating aging and geriatric issues as well as those managing traits linked to autism spectrum or personality differences.
Sessions aim to be practical, not theoretical, with tools a person can use between meetings. Michelle prefers a collaborative style. She listens closely, offers options, and helps people try approaches that match their goals.
Communication skills and boundary setting often feature in her work when relationships are part of the stress. Many people come for help reducing overwhelm, rebuilding routine after trauma, or improving focus and daily functioning with ADHD. Michelle offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One commonly used approach is skills-based work that teaches concrete tools for managing anxiety and stress, such as breathing strategies, activity planning, and short behavioral experiments. These tools help when symptoms interfere with daily tasks or routines.Another common approach is trauma-informed support that helps people process painful memories at a pace that feels safe. This involves grounding practices, emotion regulation, and step-by-step work to reduce distress linked to past events. For people with attention differences, she integrates structure and short, focused interventions to boost daily functioning and task management.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that match your goals, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques to keep and which to change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls work well for longer sessions and face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a person prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or people who do better writing than talking. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English