About Michelle
Michelle Serda is a Florida Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 15 years of practice. She emphasizes practical support when life feels overwhelming and helps people talk through mood shifts, anxiety, and relationship strain. Her tone is direct and compassionate, aimed at parents and adults seeking clear guidance.
Serda draws on long experience in community settings and independent practice across Florida. She has worked in medical and community environments, which shaped how she helps people manage day-to-day stress and larger life transitions.
Background and approach
Her focus includes depression, anxiety, parenting concerns, and postpartum issues for women. Sessions are tailored to each person’s history and strengths. She uses evidence-based techniques to address problems such as grief, addiction, anger, and self-esteem struggles.
Practical tools and goal-focused plans are common parts of the work in session. She pays special attention to family dynamics such as blended family issues, communication breakdowns, and divorce or separation. Career concerns, midlife transitions, and questions about life purpose are also within her scope.
Michelle understands the demands of parenting and the strains that can lead to compassion fatigue. Her approach is collaborative and adaptive. Clients can expect clear communication, concrete coping strategies, and follow-up between sessions through messaging if needed.
Michelle asks people to consider what they want from therapy and to bring those goals to early sessions so work can begin quickly.
How evidence-based approaches fit into online therapy
Michelle often draws on cognitive-behavioral methods to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small, practical experiments to change them. This approach is useful for anxiety, mood shifts, and stress management.She also uses solution-focused strategies that concentrate on clear goals and small steps forward. These techniques work well for people facing life transitions, career questions, and parenting challenges where concrete action matters.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, values, and daily routine. That plan can be adjusted over time as needs change.
Online therapy with Michelle is offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat can be useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to maintain continuity during busy weeks and across life changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English