Michelle Hoff
Relationship-focused LMFT who listens and guides
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michelle
Michelle Hoff is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who focuses on practical, relationship-centered therapy. She uses straightforward conversation and evidence-informed methods to help parents and couples handle stress, grief, addiction, and relationship problems. Michelle keeps sessions warm and respectful while aiming to make change feel manageable.
She trained and practiced across multiple states and brings ten years of experience in counseling. Her background includes work with relationship conflict, family problems, trauma and abuse, and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder.
Background and approach
She also addresses issues like codependency, adoption and foster care concerns, and challenges tied to military or veteran experiences. Michelle draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings and behavior. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to reopen emotional communication between partners.
Mindfulness practices are woven in to help people manage stress and stay present during hard moments. Sessions are offered in English and use a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Fees vary depending on location and the subscription model in use, which can be canceled at any time.
Michelle works from Nebraska and holds active licenses in Illinois and Iowa as listed on her profile. If someone wants to begin, they choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a time that fits their needs. Michelle aims to tailor each plan based on what the person or couple wants to achieve.
How Michelle's Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past and present relationships shape current behavior and feelings. Online sessions using this approach help people notice patterns in close relationships and try different ways of connecting that reduce conflict and fear.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In remote sessions this often involves setting small goals, practicing new skills between meetings, and tracking progress together to reduce anxiety or depression.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will collaborate with each person or couple to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. That might mean starting with one approach and adding others as needs change, so therapy stays practical and goal-oriented.
Online delivery offers flexibility in how people meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Those options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to keep momentum between sessions. Licensed professionals can use these formats to guide skills practice, hold focused conversations, and support progress without requiring travel.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Michelle
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