Michele Bowers
Calm, practical counseling for life's challenges
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michele
Michele Bowers is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) who uses practical, evidence-based therapy to help people manage stress and life changes. She blends clear tools with steady support to make sessions feel useful. Michele creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through what matters most.
Her approach is straightforward and focused on small, achievable steps. She has six years of experience working in settings that included addiction and trauma care.
Background and approach
That background helped her develop strategies for anxiety, grief, depression, and impulse-driven behaviors. Michele also supports people navigating ADHD, relationship struggles, parenting concerns, and work-related compassion fatigue. She draws on motivational interviewing to build readiness for change.
Michele relies on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and change patterns that keep problems going. Client-centered methods keep the work grounded in each person’s values and goals.
Sessions focus on understanding immediate problems, learning concrete coping skills, and practicing new responses between meetings. Michele often mixes mindfulness exercises with practical behavior changes so progress carries into daily life. She works with clients to set clear priorities and track small successes.
Therapy is offered in English and conducted from Florida. Michele describes her role as a guide who listens, offers feedback, and supports clients as they try new ways of coping. The aim is steady, manageable change rather than quick fixes.
How Michele's Methods Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting those experiences control their choices. Online ACT sessions often include values work and simple action plans to try between meetings, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In remote CBT, Michele uses short exercises and homework to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits, useful for stress, impulsive behaviors, and mood concerns.
She also uses client-centered techniques that prioritize listening and understanding each person’s goals. That approach keeps the work personalized and helps clients decide which tools fit their life and priorities.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Michele talks with clients about their needs, goals, and preferences and adjusts methods as progress unfolds. Together they test tools and pick what feels most helpful rather than committing to one rigid method.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to practice new skills between sessions. Michele uses these options to keep continuity of care and to meet clients where they are.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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