Michelle Perry, LMHC, LIMHP - Therapist in Nebraska

About Michelle

Michelle Perry is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on common life stresses. She helps people facing grief, anxiety, depression, coping with life changes, addictions, and trauma. Michelle uses a warm, straightforward style and often brings gentle humor to sessions to help people feel more at ease.

She identifies as LMHC and LIMHP and works from Nebraska. She practices in a collaborative way, asking clients what they want to change and then building steps to get there.

Background and approach

Her counseling draws from several methods, including cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness practices, and trauma-focused tools such as EMDR. Sessions can include practical coping skills, talking through difficult memories, and work on attachment patterns that affect day-to-day relationships. Michelle combines clinical training with hands-on experience in long-term care and hospice settings.

That background informs her approach to aging and end-of-life concerns, caregiver stress, and grief. She also addresses issues like codependency, family of origin wounds, and compassion fatigue. Her work is direct and goal-oriented while still acknowledging feelings.

Michelle tailors techniques to each person rather than using one fixed method. She aims to make therapy a manageable and useful part of life. People can expect clear steps, practical tools, and steady support.

Michelle brings three years of formal counseling experience and holds the following licenses: IA LMHC 115599 and NE LIMHP 3321. Sessions are offered in English and available through various online formats.

How Michelle’s Approaches Fit Online Therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape current patterns. Online sessions can help people notice those patterns and practice new ways of relating in everyday life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through clear steps and exercises. It often includes homework and skill practice that transfer well to phone or video sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Michelle works together with each person to decide which methods match their needs and goals. That collaboration helps shape a plan that can shift over time based on what works and what feels comfortable.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, keep continuity during life changes, and choose a way of communicating that feels safer or more convenient. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach coping skills, guide EMDR-informed trauma work when appropriate, and check in between longer sessions.

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.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Michelle address?

She works with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, coping with life changes, addictions, LGBT issues, relationship and family struggles, trauma and abuse, self esteem, and compassion fatigue.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her style is collaborative and goal-oriented. She is warm, often uses gentle humor, and tailors methods to each person's needs.

What kind of background does she have?

She has three years of counseling experience and prior work in skilled nursing and hospice settings that shaped her approach to aging, grief, and caregiver stress.

What credentials and location are on record?

She is licensed as an LMHC and LIMHP with license numbers IA LMHC 115599 and NE LIMHP 3321, and practices from Nebraska.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

In what formats are sessions offered?

Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.

How are fees and payment handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin if I want to work together?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.

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Experience: 3 years
Licensed: Nebraska, Iowa
Languages: English

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