- Years in practice
- 5
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Michelle
Michelle Brody is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people manage stress and parenting concerns. She speaks plainly and creates a space where clients can share difficult thoughts and feelings without judgment. Her approach aims to make day-to-day life more manageable for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, or changes at work or home.
Michelle listens for practical steps a person can use right away. She uses client-centered and strength-based ideas to build on what already works for someone.
Background and approach
Solution-focused strategies help set small, achievable goals to change patterns that cause stress. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify unhelpful thinking and to try new behaviors. That can improve sleep, reduce anxiety, and ease anger or low mood.
Communication skills work is offered to help people express needs and set boundaries more clearly. She also supports people dealing with addiction, grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, compassion fatigue, and ADHD symptoms. Michelle aims to help people develop a more positive sense of self and better daily routines.
Sessions are practical and down-to-earth, with a focus on real changes rather than labels. Michelle encourages taking small steps and tracking progress over time. She guides people through the process and adjusts the plan when needed.
What Michelle works with
Everything Michelle lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Michelle helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
Therapeutic techniques and online care
Michelle uses approaches that focus on what people can do now to feel better. Client-centered work emphasizes the person's own goals and priorities and helps build on existing strengths to tackle parenting or stress-related problems. Solution-focused strategies narrow attention to small, concrete steps and short-term goals that lead to quick, noticeable changes.Cognitive behavioral methods help identify thoughts that increase anxiety or low mood and replace them with more helpful thinking and behavior. This approach is useful for improving sleep, managing anger, coping with ADHD symptoms, and easing anxiety or depression symptoms. Each method is explained in simple terms and tailored to daily routines and parenting demands.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Michelle collaborates with clients to choose techniques that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts plans based on what is working and what is not, so the process stays practical and goal-oriented.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when visual cues help. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging allow short check-ins, quick coping reminders, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy family and work life.
Questions people ask about Michelle
What concerns does Michelle commonly address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting and family issues, relationship concerns, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, career changes, compassion fatigue, and ADHD symptoms.
What is her general approach in sessions?
Sessions are client-centered and strength-based with a solution-focused stance. Cognitive behavioral techniques are also used to identify thinking patterns and try new behaviors.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Michelle has five years of professional experience as a licensed clinician working with the issues listed above.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, listed as LCSW, and practices from Florida.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Are international clients supported?
Michelle does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
She conducts sessions by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How do people get started with therapy?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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