About Michelle
Michelle Voeller is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people face stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and compassion fatigue. She practices from Hawaii and speaks English. She believes most people already carry strengths and coping tools that can be built on in therapy.
Her approach is straightforward and practical. Sessions often begin by listening closely to what feels most urgent. Michelle helps clients name stressors, sort through painful memories, and set small, realistic steps toward relief.
Background and approach
She offers a calm, steady presence and acts as a sounding board when decisions feel heavy. Clients may work on processing loss, reducing anxiety symptoms, or managing burnout from caregiving and work. Michelle also supports people facing abandonment, commitment concerns, or struggles with guilt and shame.
She has experience with issues related to sexual assault, post-traumatic stress, and veteran and armed forces concerns. Therapy can include practical skills for calming the nervous system, improving communication, and handling triggers. Michelle prioritizes short-term goals as well as longer term growth, depending on what the person wants to work on.
She encourages small experiments between sessions to build confidence. People can expect a collaborative tone in sessions. Michelle invites questions and feedback so therapy fits each person’s needs and pace.
She welcomes conversations about hospice and end-of-life concerns, sexuality, women’s issues, and workplace stress when those topics are part of the story.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and healing. One common approach she employs is trauma-focused work that helps people process distressing memories and reduce their hold on daily life; this method often includes grounding and paced revisiting of difficult experiences to lessen their intensity. Another frequent focus is skills-based work for anxiety and stress - teaching ways to manage overwhelming thoughts, reduce physical arousal, and build routines that support better coping.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan over time. Clients are invited to share what feels helpful and what does not, so the work stays practical and goal-directed.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for people in Hawaii and beyond. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues for deeper conversation, while phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, short coaching between sessions, or ongoing reflection without needing a full appointment. These formats provide flexibility for different days and schedules, and they allow therapy to continue even when in-person visits are not feasible.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English