About Michelle
Michelle Curry is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. She offers a steady, nonjudgmental presence and listens first to understand each person's story. Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at helping people feel heard and supported.
She focuses on practical tools people can use between sessions. Michelle helps with relationship strain, grief, self-esteem, intimacy concerns, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, career stress, caregiver fatigue, and mood conditions such as bipolar disorder. Her work often addresses family-related pressures, parenting burdens, blended family adjustments, and challenges tied to adoption or foster care. She also pays attention to body image, eating concerns, and communication or control issues that affect day-to-day life.
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to build coping skills and clarify patterns that cause distress. Sessions tend to be focused on clear goals and small steps that add up over time. She encourages realistic expectations and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
People who come to Michelle can expect a compassionate guide who asks practical questions, offers concrete strategies, and helps track progress. She practices in Illinois and speaks English. The first step is a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session to see if the fit feels right.
Therapeutic Approaches and Flexible Online Care
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and problem solving. One common approach she uses teaches practical coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breath work, structured behavioral steps, and simple routines to reduce overwhelm. These techniques help people manage day-to-day symptoms and regain better control of tasks.Another frequent focus is trauma-informed care that centers on safety, pacing, and rebuilding a sense of stability after difficult experiences. This method helps people process painful events at a pace that feels manageable while developing strategies to reduce triggers and increase resilience.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That partnership helps tailor work to individual needs and preferences rather than using one fixed method.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone can work for lower bandwidth or when hands-free is needed, live chat suits short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options add flexibility and help people keep therapy consistent amid work, parenting, or other demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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