About Michelle
Michelle Leroy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with four years of professional experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, wrestling with anxiety, struggling with addictions, or coping with low self-esteem and depression. She also supports people having trouble with focus, concentration, and memory.
Michelle approaches each person as the expert on their own life and builds on their strengths. Michelle listens in a direct, down-to-earth way.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and goal-focused. She works with each person to set small, doable steps and to track what helps between meetings. The pace and focus change to match what a person needs in the moment.
Her background includes several years working with people managing substance use concerns and related behaviors. That experience informs how she talks about motivation, slips, and recovery without blame. She brings straightforward coaching around habits, routines, and organizing tasks that get in the way of daily life.
For people dealing with attention challenges, Michelle emphasizes clear strategies that support focus and follow-through. She helps break tasks into manageable parts and creates checklists and routines that fit the person’s life. Sessions include talking through practical obstacles and rehearsing new approaches.
Michelle offers a supportive, nonjudgmental space for people taking steps toward change. She encourages realistic goals, small experiments, and noticing progress. Her aim is to help people build skills they can use outside of sessions and to keep moving toward a more satisfying life.
How practical approaches translate to online care
Evidence-based techniques Michelle uses focus on helping people build skills and routines that change daily life. One common approach is skill-building around attention and organization, which breaks tasks into smaller steps, creates checklists, and experiments with timing and environment to improve focus. This helps people who struggle with concentration and follow-through.Another approach emphasizes relapse prevention and behavior change for substance use and addictive behaviors. That work involves identifying triggers, planning specific coping actions, and rehearsing responses so slips become learning opportunities rather than failures.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try a few strategies, and adjust based on what helps. Clients and therapist decide together which techniques to keep and which to revise as progress is tracked.
Online sessions make these methods flexible and easier to fit into life. Video calls allow interactive coaching and screen-sharing of worksheets. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support quick problem-solving, routine reminders, and ongoing accountability between sessions. These options let people practice new habits and get timely feedback around real-world challenges.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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