Michelle Underwood
Clear, practical therapy for stressed parents
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michelle
Michelle Underwood is a Florida licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience. She speaks plainly and listens closely to understand what is worrying a parent right now. Her style is compassionate and direct, so parents leave sessions with concrete next steps and clearer priorities.
She helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with grief, and address addictions and insomnia. Michelle also supports concerns around intimacy, self-esteem, eating and body image, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Her work includes attention to ADHD, trauma and attachment struggles, and communication or control issues. Michelle blends practical tools with reflective conversation. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients notice what matters and act on it.
Attachment-based ideas inform how she looks at relationship patterns and connection. Client-centered listening keeps the person's goals central during each session. Her background includes long-term clinical practice across many common concerns.
She aims to give straightforward strategies for day-to-day life while also working on deeper themes when clients are ready. Sessions focus on what will make the biggest difference now. Michelle holds the LMHC credential, Florida license number MH10054.
She offers sessions in English and provides a range of online formats to fit different schedules. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit busy lives
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when feelings are hard. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes where behavior shifts are the goal. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at recurring patterns in relationships and how early connections shape current reactions; it can help with intimacy, trust, and communication problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle talks with each person about their goals and preferences and then blends methods to match those needs. This collaborative process helps choose practical tools first and deeper exploration when the client is ready.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. These options let parents fit therapy around work and family demands and keep progress consistent between visits. Working online makes it easier to try strategies in real time and bring what happens at home into the conversation.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Michelle
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point