Michelle Louisville
Calm, practical care for parenting and family challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michelle
Michelle Louisville is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with two decades of experience. She focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside issues like addictions, depression, bipolar disorder, grief, and trauma. Michelle speaks English and brings a steady, practical approach that helps people tackle day-to-day struggles and longer-term patterns.
She keeps conversations straightforward and goal-focused. Sessions often begin with discussing what matters most now - symptoms, relationships, or life changes - and move toward small, doable steps.
Background and approach
Techniques include acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness skills, motivational interviewing, and brief solution-focused work. Michelle draws on long-term clinical experience to tailor methods to each person. She listens for patterns such as low motivation, self-esteem problems, codependency, or caregiver stress and suggests concrete tools to change them.
The work often includes learning new ways to respond to triggers and practicing skills between sessions. Her approach emphasizes collaboration. She helps clients set clear goals and tracks progress with simple exercises and conversations.
Parents and caregivers can expect practical guidance about communication, boundaries, and managing stress. Therapy is offered through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging so work can fit into busy schedules. Pricing varies by location and a subscription format is used that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, individuals complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
Practical approaches for online family and parenting support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions that move someone toward the life they want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behaviors and teaches concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns and build new habits. Mindfulness Therapy adds simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus in stressful parenting moments. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which tools to try first and adjust the plan over time based on what helps. Online therapy offers practical flexibility for busy families. Video calls let people meet face to face from home, phone sessions work when a video connection isn’t possible, and live chat or text messaging can support short check-ins and between-session coaching. These options make it easier to practice new skills in real life and to fit therapy into a hectic schedule.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.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
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