About Michelle
Michelle Pellin is a licensed mental health counselor who offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, parenting strain, grief, and relationship challenges. She uses straightforward, compassionate language and aims to help clients find small changes that make daily life easier. Michelle is open and affirming to LGBT clients and welcomes people from diverse backgrounds.
She holds two masters degrees - one in Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology and another in Human Services and Counseling - and brings 11 years of professional experience to her work.
Background and approach
Much of her earlier work involved caring for teens in therapeutic foster care and serving clients with acquired brain injury, physical challenges, and elder care needs as a case manager. In sessions she listens first, then offers gentle guidance. Michelle encourages clients to build on their strengths and to try practical skills that fit their life.
She emphasizes whole-person wellbeing, attending to mind, body, and spirit while keeping goals realistic and tangible. Her approach blends talk-based methods with mindfulness and skill-building. Clients can expect clear, down-to-earth suggestions rooted in cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance strategies, and emotion regulation skills.
The tone in sessions is respectful and nonjudgmental, and the therapist avoids pushing exercises a client is not ready to try. Michelle also draws on her background supporting people through adoption, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and identity-related concerns. She helps people set priorities, practice self-care, and develop routines that reduce overwhelm and support long-term change.
How Michelle’s approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take steps toward a life that matters to them. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related overwhelm, and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It provides concrete exercises to reduce worry, improve sleep, manage anger, and build routines that support focus and mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will collaborate with each person to choose strategies that match their goals, needs, and daily life. She checks in about what’s working and adjusts the plan as needed rather than insisting on one method.
Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video calls let people meet face to face when bandwidth allows, phone sessions can work when hands-free conversation is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options offer flexibility for different days and practical needs while still focusing on skill practice and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, Florida
- Languages
- English
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