Michelle Davis
Practical therapy for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LMSW
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michelle
Michelle Davis is a licensed social worker in Michigan who focuses on practical, down-to-earth therapy. She uses straightforward conversation to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She has 13 years of clinical social work experience and holds the LMSW credential.
Her work often centers on family and parenting concerns alongside issues like addiction, grief, intimacy difficulties, eating and sleeping problems, anger, and self-esteem. She also supports people facing career stress, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Additional areas she has worked with include adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, autism and Asperger Syndrome, blended family dynamics, and caregiver stress. Michelle draws from several practical methods to shape sessions. She uses client-centered techniques to follow what matters most to the person in front of her.
She also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns of thought and behavior that get in the way, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when emotional regulation is a concern. Sessions are designed to fit each person. Michelle listens first, then helps set clear, achievable goals.
She emphasizes strengths and builds on what already works in a persons life. People who reach out can expect a calm, direct approach that focuses on real-life problems. Michelle aims to make therapy practical and understandable so parents and family members can try small changes that add up over time.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Client-centered therapy puts the persons concerns and goals first; the therapist listens closely and follows what matters most to the individual, helping build on strengths and practical solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with clearer thinking and actionable habits to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches specific skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress when life feels overwhelming.Finding the right approach happens together. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, challenges, and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that feels useful and realistic for day-to-day family and parenting life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work on these approaches. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work for busy schedules, and live chat or text-based messaging can support short check-ins or skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling family routines and responsibilities.
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
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point