Michele Lescard, LCSW - Therapist in Florida

About Michele

Michele Lescard is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and life transitions. She brings 15 years of experience to sessions and aims to create a calm, practical space where parents and adults can talk through what feels overwhelming.

Michele uses straightforward language and clear goals so people know what to expect during work together. Her style is warm and client-centered.

Background and approach

She listens first, then helps set small, achievable steps. Michele blends cognitive behavioral techniques with emotionally focused ideas and mindfulness tools to address how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. Motivational interviewing helps when someone needs support making a change.

Michele often helps clients sort parenting challenges, cope with grief, manage mood problems such as bipolar disorder, and address trauma or abuse history. She also works with concerns like addiction, sleep problems, anger, and career stress. Additional areas include attachment issues, aging and caregiver stress, adoption and foster care, and chronic illness or disability.

Sessions tend to be practical. Michele supports building a toolbox of coping strategies, improving communication, and strengthening emotional awareness. She emphasizes balancing mental, physical, and spiritual needs when that fits a person’s goals.

Michele holds the Florida Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential - LCSW (FL LCSW SW16318). She lives in Florida and conducts work in English. International clients can be seen when arrangements allow.

The focus is on steady progress and real-life solutions tailored to each client.

Approaches and online support for family and parenting concerns

Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding the person’s perspective and building a trusting space where concerns can be named and explored. It helps when someone needs nonjudgmental listening and collaborative goal setting.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and introduces small experiments and skills to reduce symptoms like anxiety, low mood, and sleep troubles. It is useful for managing stress and making practical changes day to day.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, targets how people experience and express feelings in relationships. It can help improve communication and strengthen emotional bonds when family or relationship tensions are a central concern.

Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and try methods that fit. That collaborative process helps shape which tools and skills are emphasized in sessions.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules, support follow-up between sessions, and let people use the format that feels most comfortable. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to work well in an online setting, keeping focus on practical steps and steady progress.

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.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)

Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Michele address?

Michele supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting and family concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, sleeping problems, anger, and coping with life changes. She also works with issues such as body image, attachment, caregiver stress, and chronic illness.

How would you describe her therapy style?

Her approach is warm and client-centered. She listens first, helps set practical goals, and focuses on clear steps clients can use between sessions.

What is her experience and background?

She has 15 years of clinical experience and has worked with a wide range of concerns including mood disorders, parenting guidance, trauma, and special needs such as autism and intellectual disability.

What credentials and location are on record?

She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, registered as FL LCSW SW16318 and practices from Florida.

Which languages and international arrangements are available?

Sessions are offered in English. International clients are accepted when arrangements allow.

In what formats are sessions offered?

Therapy is available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.

How is cost handled for sessions?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

What are the first steps to begin therapy?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Family conflicts
Parenting issues

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 15 years
Licensed: Florida
Languages: English

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