Michelle St. Raymond, LCSW - Therapist in Louisiana

About Michelle

Michelle St. Raymond is a licensed clinical social worker with 31 years of experience based in Louisiana. She uses a heart-centered style and emphasizes real-world skills for people facing life transitions.

Her work often focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship difficulties. Michelle communicates plainly and helps clients name the problem, try practical steps, and notice what changes. She offers sessions in English using video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.

Background and approach

Michelle draws on a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking and build new habits. Attachment-based ideas guide work around relationship patterns and early family influences.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take manageable steps toward them. In sessions she centers on what’s happening now and how the past shows up in current relationships. She pays attention to emotions, body awareness, and simple skills to manage stress, sleep, eating, or anger.

Michelle also supports people dealing with addiction, compassion fatigue, and chronic illness or caregiving strain. Her manner is collaborative: she offers guidance while inviting the client to lead the direction of change. Sessions aim for small, practical actions that fit everyday life.

The focus is on building coping tools you can use between meetings. Michelle’s practice recognizes that change can feel uncertain. She helps people move through transitions with steadier thinking, clearer goals, and kinder self-awareness.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early family relationships shape patterns today and helps people change how they relate and respond in close relationships. It can be especially helpful for resolving recurring conflicts or trust issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical tools to shift them, which fits concerns like sleep, eating, and mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick or combine methods that match goals, needs, and preferences. Together they test what helps and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet: video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue work during transitions. The same therapeutic tools translate to remote formats, allowing skill practice between meetings and steady support while living in Louisiana or managing a changing life.

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.

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.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Michelle address?

She works with stress, anxiety, relationships, trauma and abuse, parenting, self-esteem, addictions, family problems, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, anger, career concerns, depression, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Her style is heart-centered and collaborative. She helps clients name problems, try practical steps, and build habits that fit daily life.

What is her professional background?

She is a licensed clinical social worker with 31 years of experience, focusing on trauma recovery, family dynamics, and life transitions.

Where is she licensed and located?

She practices in Louisiana and holds the LA LCSW 3353 credential as a licensed clinical social worker.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

Sessions can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.

How does payment and cost work?

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

How do I begin working with her?

To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session based on therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Trauma and abuse

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 31 years
Licensed: Louisiana
Languages: English

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