Michelle Schmidt
Supportive social worker for families
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michelle
Michelle Schmidt is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside mood, stress, and relationship struggles. She draws on 19 years of experience in Wisconsin working directly with people in outpatient settings and in their homes. She meets clients where they are and helps them take small, practical steps toward feeling better and handling difficult situations.
Taking that first step can feel hard, and she aims to make it straightforward and supportive.
Background and approach
Her approach builds on the strengths a person or family already has. She trained in Strengths Based Solution Focused Therapy, which means she looks for what is working and uses those pieces to solve problems. Sessions tend to be goal-focused and practical, with an emphasis on doable changes rather than only talking about the past.
Michelle has worked with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, addictions, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. She also addresses caregiving stress, aging and geriatric issues, postpartum depression, and family problems. Her experience includes helping people cope with life changes and compassion fatigue.
In sessions she helps clients identify strengths, set small goals, and try specific strategies between meetings. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules. Michelle practices in Wisconsin and provides services in English.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Michelle often uses Strengths Based Solution Focused work, which looks for small, existing strengths and turns them into concrete steps. This approach is useful for parents and families who want clear, immediate changes rather than long exploratory work.She also draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address anxiety, depression, trauma, and caregiving stress. Those approaches typically include short-term skills and homework that people can try between sessions to see what helps in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist partners with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, pace, and preferences. Together they track what is helping and adjust the plan as needed so the work feels useful and focused.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These options make it easier to attend around caregiving schedules, work, or other time constraints. They also let people follow up between meetings and try new strategies with ongoing support from a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Michelle
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- Stop at any point