Michelle Spencer

Michelle Spencer is a licensed mental health counselor who brings 12 years of clinical experience to her work. She helps people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, struggling with anger, or coping with major life changes. Michelle focuses on practical steps you can take to feel steadier day to day.

She listens with respect and compassion. Sessions are tailored to each person's needs, and she adapts the conversation and plan as progress unfolds. The aim is to build skills and insight you can use outside sessions.

Michelle uses straightforward, skills-based approaches to address mood, motivation, and self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with trauma, addictions, workplace strain, parenting stress, and relationship concerns. Her practice includes work on impulsivity, forgiveness, and money-related stress when these come up.

Her background includes licensure in New York and Minnesota as a LMHC and LPCC, and over a decade of direct practice. That experience informs a flexible style that mixes listening, goal-setting, and concrete techniques.

Initial meetings focus on understanding what matters most to you now. From there she helps craft steps you can try between sessions, reviews what helps, and adjusts the plan. The approach is collaborative and paced to fit your life.

How Michelle’s approaches translate to online therapy

Michelle often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in her sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce worry, low mood, and impulsive reactions. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes the person’s own goals and experiences, with the therapist offering empathy, reflection, and support while the client leads the pace and focus.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort. Together they track what helps and change course when something isn’t working.

If you are considering online work, confirm current session options before booking. The practical benefits of remote sessions include fitting therapy into a busy schedule, easier access when travel is difficult, and the chance to have shorter check-ins when time is limited. Discuss format and scheduling during the matching process to make sure sessions fit your routine.