About Michelle
Michelle Gilio is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado with over 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, self-esteem, relationship concerns, parenting strains, grief, trauma, anger, career questions, coping with life changes, and ADHD. She aims to make the first step easier and encourages people who are reaching out for support.
She creates a calm space where people can talk through what’s on their mind.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear communication and real skills that can be used between appointments. Conversations are straightforward and paced to match each person’s needs. Her background includes individual and group work across many settings.
That range supports flexible approaches for different problems and stages of change. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide treatment choices rather than one fixed method. In sessions she helps people build confidence and motivation, improve communication, and manage anxiety or anger.
Practical tools and simple behavioral steps are a common focus. She also helps people process loss and past hurts at a steady, manageable pace. Michelle works in English and practices from Colorado.
She understands how hard it can feel to reach out and treats that step as part of the work. People who are ready to begin are invited to complete an intake and schedule a session.
Approaches that inform online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques are used to shape sessions in practical ways. Cognitive-style approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing more balanced thoughts; these methods help with anxiety, low confidence, and day-to-day worry. Behavioral techniques concentrate on small, do-able actions such as activity scheduling, exposure to feared situations, or building routines to improve mood and focus; these are useful for motivation, anger, and ADHD-related challenges.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and what has worked before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust them over time based on what feels helpful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for more in-depth conversation and skill demonstration. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is low or a simpler check-in is needed. Chat and messaging are convenient for quick updates, brief coaching, or staying connected between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around school, work, or parenting demands.
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What this therapist works with
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- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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