Michelle Boodry
Trauma-informed counselor with practical focused care
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michelle
Michelle Boodry is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Wisconsin with 11 years of clinical experience. She focuses on trauma and related concerns and offers practical support for people facing relationship struggles, intimacy issues, stress, anxiety, and changes in life. Her style is straightforward and grounded, aimed at helping people take the next step when things feel overwhelming.
Michelle uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, as one of her core approaches for processing traumatic memories.
Background and approach
She also works with common struggles such as self-esteem, motivation, grief, sleep problems, and challenges tied to mood conditions like depression and bipolar disorder. Sessions address what is happening now and what helps in daily life. People will find a collaborative, skills-focused approach in session.
Michelle treats each person as the expert on their own story and builds on existing strengths. Conversations move at a practical pace to identify coping tools and small changes that make a difference. Her practice also attends to areas such as addiction concerns, ADHD, caregiver stress, blended family issues, and relationship problems like infidelity and codependency.
Michelle aims to make the work useful and manageable for people juggling busy lives. For those in Wisconsin who prefer remote care, she provides several online session formats. The initial step is simple and intended to match goals with an appropriate plan of care.
How EMDR and online sessions work together
EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a trauma-focused method that helps people process distressing memories so those memories feel less overwhelming. It uses guided attention and memory work to reduce the emotional charge of past events and can be useful for people who have experienced abuse, accidents, or other traumatic events.Alongside EMDR, Michelle focuses on practical skills for stress, sleep, anxiety, and mood challenges. That work often includes short, actionable strategies to manage symptoms between sessions and conversations about adjusting daily routines to improve functioning.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle will talk with each person about their goals, past experiences, and preferences before deciding whether to use EMDR or emphasize skills-based work. Together they choose the path that fits the person’s needs and comfort level.
Online therapy offers flexibility for those balancing work, family, or mobility limits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions remove the need for video, and live chat or text messaging can provide quick check-ins or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep a steady therapy schedule and to use chosen techniques consistently.
EMDR
A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Michelle
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point