About Michelle
Michelle St. Raymond is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades of experience in Louisiana. She draws on years of practice to help people navigate big life changes and persistent stress.
Her work often focuses on trauma recovery, relationship concerns, anxiety, grief, and challenges like addiction or sleep and eating issues. She describes her approach as heart-centered and person-focused. Sessions aim to build new skills for moving forward rather than staying stuck.
Background and approach
Michelle uses practical tools to shift unhelpful thinking and to strengthen body-mind awareness. Her background includes long experience supporting people through transitions such as aging, career change, health concerns, and family reconfiguration. She also attends to issues tied to attachment, abandonment, caregiver stress, and chronic illness.
This experience informs how she helps clients set realistic goals and take small actionable steps. Therapeutic work may include talking through patterns from family of origin, strengthening emotional regulation, and practicing mindfulness exercises. Cognitive approaches are used to reframe thoughts that get in the way of change.
Michelle emphasizes compassionate self-acceptance while learning and practicing new behaviors. Clients collaborate on a plan that fits their values and daily life. Michelle positions herself as a guide while the client leads the work.
Her overall aim is to support steady, practical progress toward clearer goals and healthier routines.
How Michelle’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take action toward those values. It focuses on accepting difficult thoughts while choosing behaviors that align with goals, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape present patterns. It helps people notice attachment needs and develop new ways of relating, which can support intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and communication problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean combining acceptance work, attachment-focused exploration, and practical cognitive techniques in a way that makes sense for day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Chat and messaging are useful for short check-ins, homework, or when someone prefers writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still getting consistent, goal-oriented support from a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English