Michelle Evans
Practical support for parents and life changes
- Credentials
- MD, LCPC, LCMHC
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed in
- Maryland, Vermont
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michelle
Michelle Evans is a clinician who focuses on practical support for parents and people dealing with stress and life transitions. She offers straightforward help for common concerns like anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, eating and body image issues, and relationship or intimacy-related worries. Michelle brings 17 years of experience and uses clear, everyday language so conversations stay focused and useful.
Her approach blends several evidence-based methods. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help clients notice their values and take small steps toward them.
Background and approach
Michelle also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that get in the way. Emotion-focused ideas guide work on connection and feelings when relationships or family matters feel strained. Sessions are offered from Vermont and conducted in English.
She holds the credentials MD, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC). She works with a range of concerns including ADHD, trauma and abuse, communication problems, caregiver stress, blended family issues, and eating and food-related difficulties. Michelle structures sessions to be conversational and practical.
She aims to make therapy feel warm and welcoming while helping people build skills they can use at home. Parents who need straightforward strategies for everyday parenting or coping with teen behavior may find this approach useful. To begin, clients follow the site process to match and schedule sessions.
Michelle offers multiple session formats so people can find a way to fit therapy into their lives.
Therapy approaches and online sessions that fit family life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small, value-driven steps even when feelings are hard. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through simple exercises and practice, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and eating-related concerns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding and expressing emotions to improve connection, which can be helpful when relationships or family interactions feel stuck.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Michelle collaborates with each person to figure out which methods match their goals, preferences, and daily demands. Together they try tools, notice what helps, and adjust the plan so therapy feels relevant and doable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These options let parents and busy people fit sessions into hectic schedules and continue work between meetings. Licensed professionals use these formats to offer structured, regular sessions alongside practical exercises and check-ins that translate to everyday life.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, Vermont
- Languages
- English
Next step
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