About Michelle
Michelle Keplar is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Indiana. She has three years of professional experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, and low self-esteem. Michelle focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more capable.
She aims for a nonjudgmental and respectful style. Sessions center on open communication and listening. Michelle works from a strengths-based viewpoint and adapts conversations to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Michelle often helps people facing life transitions and the emotional fallout those changes bring. She supports people who are struggling with grief, sleep problems, workplace issues, or feelings of isolation. She also addresses relationship concerns, communication struggles, and issues tied to identity, including LGBT topics.
Her work includes help for people dealing with anger, impulsivity, career questions, money stress, and symptoms of depression. She also offers support around compassion fatigue and seasonal mood shifts. Michelle aims to break problems into smaller, manageable steps so progress feels attainable.
Sessions focus on collaboration and practical tools you can use between meetings. Michelle encourages people to name goals, try small changes, and notice what helps. She describes therapy as a partnership where people lead and she helps guide the process.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach is goal-focused problem solving, which helps break big issues into clear steps and small experiments to try between sessions. This can help with stress, motivation, and daily functioning.Another common approach is skills-building for emotional regulation and coping. These techniques teach simple tools people can use when anxiety, anger, or low mood feel overwhelming. Skills work often targets sleep, impulsivity, and compassion fatigue by creating steady routines and short exercises.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Michelle will talk with each person about their needs and goals, then tailor the plan together. She treats therapy as a partnership where the client’s preferences guide which techniques are tried and adjusted over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation, phone can fit a short break at work, live chat is useful for quicker check-ins, and text messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English