About Michelle
Michelle St. Raymond is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 31 years of experience. She practices in Louisiana and draws on a long career helping people navigate major life shifts.
Michelle emphasizes steady, compassionate support while people learn new ways to cope. She focuses on trauma recovery, relationship growth, and habits that come from early family experiences. Michelle uses practical tools so people can notice patterns and try different responses.
Background and approach
She helps clients who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction concerns, and ADHD-related struggles. Her approach blends talk therapy with mindfulness and body awareness. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her toolkit to change unhelpful thinking.
She also uses attachment-based ideas to work through connection and intimacy issues. Michelle often helps people during transitions such as aging, job changes, health setbacks, or shifts in family life. She talks about slowing down, noticing inner experience, and building skills to act differently when old habits show up.
Work in sessions includes practical steps and self-compassion exercises. She describes the client as the leader of the work and herself as a guide. Sessions focus on present-day goals and real actions that move people forward.
The aim is gradual change that fits each person’s pace and values.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small actions toward those values while learning to accept uncomfortable thoughts or feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related difficulties, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete exercises to try different behaviors and reframe unhelpful thinking patterns. It is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, sleep, and behavior change. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape expectations and patterns in adult connections, helping with intimacy, communication problems, and trust issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan based on what fits and what brings practical progress.
Online formats offer flexible ways to work toward those goals. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and practicing interactional skills. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow for brief check-ins, worksheets, and steady support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work through transitions without frequent travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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