About Michelle
Michelle LeClear-Dozier is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida with 35 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are stressed, anxious, facing mood struggles, or dealing with life changes such as grief or relationship strain. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at practical progress rather than jargon.
Michelle uses clear, hands-on methods to help people manage symptoms of depression, panic, bipolar mood shifts, and ADHD.
Background and approach
She draws on cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to help clients notice unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. She also uses a client-centered way of working that puts the person’s goals and values first. She often helps with family problems, parenting concerns, addictions, trauma and post-traumatic stress, and social anxiety.
Michelle supports people navigating intimacy issues, self-esteem struggles, career stress, women’s issues, and eating or anger concerns. Her approach combines problem-solving skills with emotional support. Sessions focus on identifying stressors, building strengths, and learning concrete coping strategies.
Michelle emphasizes collaboration - she and the client set goals and track progress. She aims to teach skills that carry into everyday life so people can handle setbacks more easily. Her practice is grounded in empathy and respect.
Michelle works to create a caring space where people can address past trauma, improve communication, and try new ways of solving problems. She prefers simple, practical steps that fit each person’s life.
How Michelle’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy emphasizes the person’s goals and perspective. In practice this means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps shape sessions around what matters most to the client. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive, accepting space to sort out feelings and priorities.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Michelle uses CBT techniques to identify unhelpful thinking, try experiments in daily life, and build coping skills for anxiety, panic, or mood problems. These are practical steps people can practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle works with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, challenges, and preferences. Over time she adjusts methods based on what works, combining client-centered listening with CBT tools as needed.
Online sessions give flexibility and easier access to care. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits the schedule. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief support, check-ins, and skill reminders between longer sessions. These formats help fit therapy into busy lives and support steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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