Michele Keller
Helping parents handle stress and family life
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michele
Michele Keller is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on family and parenting concerns along with a broad range of life challenges. She brings 15 years of counseling experience in Missouri and uses practical therapy methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting issues, and relationship struggles.
Michele writes in a warm, straightforward way and aims to make sessions feel doable for busy parents. Michele began her professional life in the travel industry, which exposed her to different regions and cultures and shaped her open-minded outlook.
Background and approach
She has worked in independent practice and in intensive outpatient programs, so she knows both short-term and ongoing care styles. Her background includes supporting people facing chronic illness, caregiving stress, addiction concerns, and major life changes. Her sessions are grounded in clear, teachable skills rather than abstract talk.
Michele often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot thinking patterns, and dialectical behavior strategies to build emotion regulation and distress tolerance. She also uses client-centered and mindfulness approaches and motivational interviewing when helpful. Parents find her approach practical and supportive: she helps break problems into small steps and focuses on workable strategies for real life.
Michele emphasizes interpersonal effectiveness and communication skills for improving family dynamics and intimate relationships. She holds Missouri licensure as an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - and provides services in English. Michele offers a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
How Michele’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Client-centered therapy places the person’s experience at the center of sessions and helps the therapist follow what matters most to the client. Online this means sessions adapt to the parent or caregiver’s pacing and priorities, focusing on what feels useful in daily life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches simple tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In virtual sessions Michele can guide parents through short exercises, homework, and thought tracking to ease anxiety and improve mood.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. These are taught as clear skills that parents can practice between sessions to manage intense feelings and navigate family conflict.
Choosing the right blend of approaches is a collaborative process. Michele will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and schedule. She adjusts techniques over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy with Michele uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. This variety makes it easier to fit therapy into busy family routines. It also allows follow-up work and reminders between meetings so skills can be practiced where problems actually occur.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
Next step
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