About Michelle
Michelle Walsh is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eleven years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood disorders, and relationship concerns. She works from a practical, person-focused stance and aims to build a strong working connection with each client. Michelle offers straightforward support and helps people find tools they can use between sessions.
Michelle trained in social work and has worked in independent practice, outpatient clinics, and a homeless shelter.
Background and approach
She has experience supporting people with depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, substance use concerns, and survivors of sexual assault and abuse. Her background includes work with veterans and attention to issues that arise around pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum mood changes. Her approach draws on client-centered therapy, where the person’s goals guide each step.
Michelle also uses mindfulness-based practices to help with symptoms like panic, sleep disruption, and chronic pain. She often blends practical coping skills with practices for noticing thoughts and bodily sensations. Michelle pays attention to relationship patterns, intimacy-related concerns, and the stress of caregiving or compassion fatigue.
She also works with people facing career challenges, social anxiety, and questions around identity and self-worth. Her focus includes both mental health conditions and life transitions. Sessions are offered in English and are provided to adults in New Jersey.
Michelle emphasizes collaboration - she listens, reflects what she hears, and helps people identify realistic next steps. People can expect clear suggestions and tools to practice between sessions.
Client-centered and mindfulness approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and experiences. The therapist listens closely, reflects what is heard, and helps the client set the pace and direction of therapy. This approach is helpful for people dealing with relationships, self-esteem, life changes, and decision-making.Mindfulness therapy uses simple practices to bring attention to the present moment. It can help with anxiety, panic attacks, sleep problems, chronic pain, and stress by teaching ways to notice thoughts and body sensations without getting swept away by them.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will ask about needs, goals, and what a person prefers. Together they try different techniques and adjust the plan based on what helps most in day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers several practical options: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is not convenient, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, accommodate lower bandwidth or no-camera needs, and provide flexible ways to practice skills and get feedback.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English