About Michelle
Michelle Slater is a licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, parenting concerns, life changes, and ADHD. She works in plain, practical ways and helps clients find clearer thinking and calmer routines. Her style is warm, respectful, and focused on collaboration.
Slater emphasizes active listening and a client-centered stance. She helps people name what matters to them, notice patterns that get in the way, and try small changes that can make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Sessions often include talking through communication habits, managing emotions, and building coping skills tailored to each person. Cognitive behavioral ideas are part of her work when it helps clients change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. The Gottman Method informs how she approaches communication and relationship work, with practical exercises to improve listening and reduce conflict.
She adapts tools to fit a person's goals rather than following one fixed plan. Her background includes masters, specialist, and doctoral degrees in counselor education from the University of Florida and long experience teaching and seeing clients in Florida. She holds the LMHC credential and brings a broad view that includes mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual concerns when clients want that.
People come to her for help with grief, life transitions such as divorce and separation, caregiver stress, body image, and isolation. She focuses on removing barriers that keep people from reaching their goals and supports gradual, practical change.
How different approaches guide online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist creates a respectful space and follows the client's lead to identify what matters and what goals to pursue.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses straightforward tools to test unhelpful thoughts and develop practical skills for managing anxiety, mood, and daily routines.
The Gottman Method provides clear, behavior-focused techniques for improving communication and reducing recurring conflict in relationships. It offers exercises that couples can practice between sessions to build better habits.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to figure out which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is useful and what the client wants to try next.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video lets people work face to face; phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited; chat or text can support quick check-ins or brief reflections between appointments. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, reduce travel time, and allow people to continue consistent work even when life gets busy.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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