Michelle Smith

Michelle Smith is a licensed mental health counselor with ten years of experience helping people navigate change. She brings a warm, client-centered style and practical tools to work through stress, anxiety, anger, grief, and relationship concerns. Michelle holds LCMHC and LMHC credentials and practices from Oklahoma.

She uses short, focused conversations and evidence-informed techniques to help people identify what matters to them and take small steps toward it. Sessions are straightforward and action-oriented when needed, and more reflective when processing grief, trauma, or attachment wounds. Michelle emphasizes clear coping skills for sleep, eating, and daily routines alongside deeper therapeutic work.

Her background includes work with a wide range of life challenges such as parenting strain, career transitions, chronic health concerns, ADHD, bipolar mood issues, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, body image, and intimacy-related questions. Michelle aims to tailor each session to the person’s priorities rather than follow a one-size-fits-all plan.

Michelle draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-informed work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy strategies. The focus is on practical skills, clearer communication, and building values-based routines. She encourages collaboration so clients leave with tools they can use between sessions.

To begin, Michelle asks people to consider what they want to change and what matters most to them. She works with each person to set realistic goals and track progress over time.

Approaches that guide online work

Michelle commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her clinical work. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values, which helps with anxiety, anger, and life transitions. Attachment-based work explores early and current relationship patterns to improve connection, communication, and emotional regulation.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Michelle collaborates with each person to decide which methods best fit their goals and preferences. She adjusts pacing and techniques as needs change, so therapy stays practical and relevant.

If you plan to try online sessions, please confirm available session formats before booking since the biography does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into busy days, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also lets people continue therapy while relocating or living abroad. Licensed professionals can use video, phone, or other supported formats when appropriate, so check the listed options and schedule to find what suits your routine and comfort.