About Zita
Zita "Michelle" Frederic is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with thirty years of experience. She helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, low in self-esteem, or depressed. She also supports parents and young adults facing life changes and parenting challenges.
Michelle works in Louisiana and conducts sessions in English. Her style is calm and practical. She listens first, then helps clients name immediate concerns.
Sessions focus on real steps that can be tried between meetings.
Background and approach
She uses a strengths-based approach that highlights what is already working for a person. Michelle specializes in issues around attachment, communication problems, and caregiver stress. She also supports people dealing with social anxiety, isolation, guilt, and questions about life purpose and self-love.
Her background includes long experience with students in special education and with intellectual disability and autism and Asperger Syndrome concerns. Over the years she has developed ways to balance emotional support with concrete problem-solving. Parents and young adults will find practical guidance aimed at daily routines and relationships.
She adapts methods to match each person's developmental stage and goals. Therapy sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. The subscription model used for sessions can be canceled at any time, and cost varies with location and therapist availability.
To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
Approaches that guide online work and what they do
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach she uses helps people identify patterns in mood and behavior and then test small, doable changes to see what helps. This approach is useful for anxiety, low mood, and building daily routines.Another approach emphasizes attachment and relationships. It helps clients understand how past and current relationships shape feelings and expectations. This is helpful for people struggling with connection, communication problems, caregiver stress, or social anxiety.
Choosing the right method is a team effort. Michelle collaborates with each person to match techniques to their goals, age, and life situation. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress or challenges emerge.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make participation easier. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, quick problem-solving, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English