Michelle Jones
Supportive LCSW focused on practical progress
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michelle
Michelle Jones is a licensed clinical social worker who brings nine years of experience to her practice. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, ADHD, and family concerns. Michelle aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people juggling busy lives.
Sessions are offered in English and take place with her in Missouri. Michelle uses evidence-based techniques to help people manage symptoms and build everyday skills. She listens for what matters most and helps clients set small, achievable goals.
Background and approach
Conversations often center on clearer communication, handling overwhelm, and coping with past hurts. Her background includes working across a range of life challenges such as adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and blended family dynamics. Michelle also supports people facing body image struggles, commitment or codependency issues, and neurodiverse needs like autism and Asperger Syndrome.
In sessions she keeps language plain and steps practical. Expect to leave with concrete strategies to try between meetings. The work is paced to fit each person’s rhythm rather than a one-size-fits-all model.
Michelle combines clinical training with everyday problem solving to help people feel steadier. She partners with clients to track progress and adjust the plan as needed. The goal is steady, usable change rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches and how online care fits
Michelle uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach emphasizes skill building for stress and anxiety management. Sessions teach breathing, grounding, and stepwise plans to reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning. Another strand of work addresses trauma and past hurts through paced processing and safety planning. That approach helps people tolerate difficult memories and develop healthier coping patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match needs, goals, and comfort. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is and isn’t helping, so the process stays responsive and individualized.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around family demands, work, or health limitations. They also let people practice skills in real-life moments and check in between meetings, which supports steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
Next step
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