Michelle Curry
Calm, practical support for parents and families
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michelle
Michelle Curry is a licensed clinical social worker who draws on 21 years of experience to guide people through stressful times. She focuses on straightforward, practical support for parents and families dealing with everyday challenges. Michelle aims to make the first step easier by listening without judgment and offering clear next steps.
Her sessions move at a parent's pace. She starts by hearing the immediate concern and then helps identify small, manageable changes.
Background and approach
Michelle offers concrete tools for handling stress, anger, grief, and relationship tension. She also addresses issues like anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and parenting questions. Over two decades she has worked in Illinois in roles that involved direct support for people with a wide range of needs.
That background shaped an approach that values empathy and steady problem solving. Michelle keeps explanations simple and actionable so families can try things between sessions. She integrates practical strategies to help with coping skills, communication, and daily routines.
Michelle also brings experience with more complex issues such as trauma, bipolar concerns, ADHD, eating and intimacy-related struggles. Her focus includes additional areas like adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, and blended family problems. Sessions are delivered in plain language and emphasize collaboration.
Michelle listens first, then suggests steps to test and refine. The goal is clearer understanding and safer, more manageable family interactions over time.
Evidence-based approaches and online family support
Michelle uses proven, practical techniques that focus on real-life change. One approach emphasizes building coping skills and stress management through short, teachable strategies that parents can use day to day; this helps when anxiety, anger, or life changes feel overwhelming. Another approach centers on improving communication and problem solving so family members can reduce conflict and make routines easier to manage; this is useful for parenting struggles, blended family issues, and caregiver stress.Finding the right way to work together is part of the process. Michelle will listen to your goals, try an approach, and adjust based on what helps. That shared decision making makes it easier to choose methods that fit your family and schedule.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy households. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations from home, phone sessions provide a simpler option when a screen is not practical, and live chat or text messages let families check in between meetings. These formats make it possible to keep therapy going around school, work, and caregiving responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point