Michelle Gross
Calm, practical support for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michelle
Michelle Gross is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with 20 years of experience. She holds a Master’s in Counseling and an MBA from Wake Forest University. Michelle helps people handle stress, anxiety, ADHD, grief, depression, and life transitions.
Her work aims to turn insight into practical steps parents and adults can use every day. Michelle builds an individualized plan based on each person's strengths and needs. She focuses on self-awareness and authentic connection as starting points.
Background and approach
Sessions often include clear strategies to manage attention, mood, sleep, and daily routines. She also supports people working through anger, intimacy concerns, eating or sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue. Her background spans schools, universities, corporations, and independent practice.
That range lets her mix coaching skills with clinical tools for people juggling work and family responsibilities. Michelle also draws on experience advising entrepreneurs and professionals about task management, delegation, and goal clarity. She uses several evidence-based methods that fit specific goals and preferences.
Michelle frequently uses cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also employs mindfulness and dialectical skills to manage strong emotions and increase present-moment awareness. Michelle is licensed in North Carolina as an LCMHC, number NC LCMHC 7316, and conducts sessions in English.
She accepts international clients and provides therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions to suit their needs.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the individual’s concerns and builds a trusting, respectful relationship. It helps people feel heard and guides decisions about goals and steps to try. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It uses simple exercises and practice to change patterns that feed anxiety, depression, or trouble sleeping.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Michelle works together with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and daily life. She adapts tools over time, mixing coaching and therapy techniques so the plan matches how someone prefers to work and what they want to change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which provide flexibility for busy schedules. These options allow work to continue between appointments and make it easier to fit sessions around school, work, or caregiving. Licensed professionals can use these formats to offer consistent support while tailoring pace and techniques to each person’s situation.
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
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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