Michele Davis
Empathic support for parenting and family life
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michele
Michele Davis is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience. She practices in Arizona and focuses on helping people navigate parenting, family concerns, addictions, grief, and major life changes. Michele aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for stressed caregivers and adults.
She works in English and accepts international clients. Her style is warm and down-to-earth. Michele listens first, then helps people name the problem and try small changes.
Background and approach
She draws on proven methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and attachment-informed work to shift patterns that cause stress and conflict. Sessions move at a real-life pace and focus on skills people can use between meetings. Michele has long experience with trauma, relationship issues, and both chronic and sudden life stressors.
She also supports folks coping with caregiver strain, chronic illness, adoption and foster care matters, and the emotional fallout of separation or domestic violence. Her background includes work with people dealing with addiction, anger, and compassion fatigue. In sessions she pays attention to personal history and current routines.
Michele helps clients improve communication, reduce anxiety, and build better boundaries. She also guides exploration of identity, self-esteem, and career-related stress when those areas are part of the problem. Therapy is offered through video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
Costs vary by location and a subscription model is used that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a prospective client chooses Start Therapy, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to therapist availability.
Online approaches for family and life transitions
Michele uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is practical and often focuses on small, achievable steps to reduce anxiety, manage anger, or improve mood.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early and current relationships affect trust, communication, and parenting patterns. That work helps when family dynamics, blended families, or adoption and foster care issues make relationships feel stuck.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Michele will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and then try methods that match those needs. She adjusts the plan as progress and challenges emerge so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy family life. Video calls let conversations feel close to in-person work, while phone sessions can be simpler for tight schedules. Live chat and text messaging provide shorter check-ins or ways to work through immediate concerns between meetings. These options aim to increase flexibility and keep a consistent connection to support progress.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
Next step
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