Michelle Powell, LPC - Therapist in Georgia

About Michelle

Michelle Powell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with 25 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationships, parenting, sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem. Her work also includes bipolar disorder, ADHD, and support for family-related concerns.

She writes plainly and aims to make therapy understandable and usable from the first session. Powell uses a client-centered stance that keeps the person's goals front and center.

Background and approach

She pairs that with cognitive behavioral tools to address unhelpful thoughts and patterns. Dialectical and mindfulness skills are added when someone needs emotion regulation and present-moment strategies. Sessions are shaped to fit each person's needs rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan.

Michelle emphasizes mutual respect and helps clients build skills they can apply between sessions. She supports caregivers and people facing life transitions, aging concerns, attachment or communication problems, and issues like codependency or infidelity. Her approach highlights real skills: noticing thoughts, testing beliefs, practicing new responses, and learning calm-down strategies.

She also offers support for obsessive-compulsive patterns, compassion fatigue, and feelings of isolation or emptiness. The aim is steady progress toward clearer choices and more usable coping tools. Michelle combines straightforward talk with hands-on techniques so people can try things right away.

She encourages clients to shape the work and to set goals that matter to them. If someone wants practical, respectful help for family and parenting issues or related concerns, her background is geared toward that kind of support.

How specific therapies translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors, which helps with mood, sleep, and stress. Mindfulness Therapy emphasizes moment-to-moment awareness and simple practices to reduce reactivity and improve attention, a helpful tool for emotion regulation and stress reduction.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide collaboratively which techniques to keep using and which to modify.

Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy around family life and busy schedules. Many people find it helpful to practice skills between meetings using text check-ins or brief chat exchanges, and video meetings allow face-to-face conversation when that is preferred.

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.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she address?

She works with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship and family problems, parenting challenges, sleep issues, anger, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and related concerns such as caregiver stress and aging issues.

How would you describe her therapy style?

Her style is client-centered and respectful, using cognitive behavioral techniques and elements of dialectical and mindfulness work to help people change thoughts and manage emotions.

What is her professional background?

She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 25 years of experience working with a wide variety of concerns, including family and parenting issues.

Where is she licensed to practice?

She holds a Georgia license as a Licensed Professional Counselor, GA LPC LPC003625.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.

How does billing and cost work?

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

What steps are involved in getting started?

Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling sessions according to the therapist's availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Family conflicts
Grief

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 25 years
Licensed: Georgia
Languages: English

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