About Michelle
Michelle LeClear-Dozier is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with 35 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or big life changes. She communicates plainly and aims to make therapy feel understandable and manageable for someone juggling many responsibilities.
Her approach blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, so sessions often begin by listening to what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
From there she helps identify stressors and patterns, and works with people to build clearer thinking and practical coping steps. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Michelle has long experience supporting people with relationship and parenting concerns, family problems, and issues like grief, trauma, addiction, and eating concerns.
She also works with mood conditions such as bipolar disorder, panic, social anxiety, and other mood disorders. The goal is to strengthen coping skills and decision-making rather than rely on jargon or one-size-fits-all fixes. People can expect a warm, open-minded style in sessions.
She emphasizes empathy and practical problem-solving. Over her career she has helped clients work through past trauma, improve communication, and develop healthier routines. Therapy with Michelle focuses on real-life steps you can use between sessions.
That may include short behavioral experiments, thought-challenging exercises, or parenting strategies tailored to daily life. She meets people where they are and helps them take the next manageable step.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s perspective. In practice this means sessions start with open conversation about what matters most, and the therapist reflects back concerns so people feel heard and clearer about goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses short exercises and practical steps to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, panic attacks, mood changes, and everyday stressors.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to choose methods that match their goals and preferences, and will adjust strategies over time based on progress and feedback.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling, shorter check-ins, and continuity when life gets in the way.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English