Michelle Waguespack
Calm practical support for life and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana, Colorado
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michelle
Michelle Waguespack is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana. She focuses on stress, anxiety, self-esteem, career questions, coping with life changes, coaching, relationships, family matters, and parenting. She also pays attention to aging and geriatric concerns, blended family dynamics, and codependency.
Michelle’s style is warm and non-judgmental, aiming to make people feel heard and respected from the first conversation. Michelle draws on a mix of straightforward, practical methods.
Background and approach
She uses client-centered listening to learn what matters most to each person. She adds cognitive behavioral strategies to address unhelpful thoughts and solution-focused steps to build small, manageable changes. Sessions are collaborative and paced to what the client needs.
Her background includes counseling experience in university, business, and independent practice settings. Her graduate work focused on marriage and family topics, and over time she developed a particular interest in career counseling across different stages of work life. That mix of settings shaped a flexible approach to everyday problems.
In a typical session Michelle talks through a client’s immediate concern and helps set a short-term goal to try between meetings. She concentrates on skills that can be used at home and at work, such as clearer communication, stress management, and confidence building. Progress is tracked in simple, practical steps.
Michelle holds the LPC credential and has practiced for about 12 years. She offers sessions in English and provides several online formats to suit different schedules and preferences.
How Michelle’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy begins with listening. The therapist focuses on understanding your situation and priorities, and then follows your lead to set goals that matter to you. This approach helps when you need a supportive space to talk through parenting stress, relationship tension, or life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior. It uses simple exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and build new coping skills, which can be useful for anxiety, low self-esteem, and stress at work or home.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. Clients and therapist make those decisions together and adjust as needed based on what is helping.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These formats let people fit sessions around school, work, and family life and to continue care from different locations within Louisiana. The variety of options makes it easier to use brief coaching steps or ongoing therapy without major travel.
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.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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