About Michelle
Michelle Lake is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 17 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy struggles, grief, parenting strains, and issues related to ADHD. Her approach is practical and steady, aimed at helping people find ways to manage daily life and restore balance.
Michelle uses clear, collaborative methods in sessions. She listens first, then helps clients set small, doable goals.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on concrete steps people can try between meetings. She blends talk therapy with skills practice to help clients build new habits. Her background includes a master’s degree in counselor education and long experience working with adults and the LGBT community.
That experience informs a calm, nonjudgmental style and an emphasis on understanding each person’s story. She draws on several therapy methods to match the work to the person’s needs. Common topics she addresses include coping with life changes, career stress, attachment and communication problems, impulse control, and compassion fatigue.
Sessions may explore how past losses or adoption and foster care history affect current relationships and self worth. Michelle also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress, and aging concerns. Therapy with Michelle blends acceptance and action, emotional processing, and practical problem solving.
She aims to help people find clearer priorities and more reliable ways to handle hard moments. The work is paced to each person’s comfort and goals.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, ADHD-related overwhelm, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to change mood and functioning. It is often used for anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and problem solving in daily life.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they decide whether to emphasize acceptance and values work, cognitive restructuring and skills practice, or a mix of methods to match the work needed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or when lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for frequent check-ins, brief coaching between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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