- Years in practice
- 7
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Florida, New York
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Relationship issues
About Michelle
Michelle Coffey is a licensed clinical social worker with seven years of experience. She uses a person-centered style and focuses on practical steps people can take. She aims to partner with clients to set reachable goals and make real changes.
Her work style is warm and straightforward, and she speaks English. Michelle helps people dealing with stress and anxiety, addiction concerns, depression, and trauma. She also supports those facing relationship strain, grief, intimacy questions, and self-esteem struggles.
Background and approach
Parenting is among the areas she lists, and she can help parents manage the daily strain and long-term challenges of caregiving. Her background includes work with people from diverse backgrounds and those facing complex medical issues. Michelle has supported people with chronic pain, cancer, and caregiving stress.
She has experience addressing attachment and abandonment concerns, codependency, and dissociation. Therapy sessions are built around practical tools and clear aims. Techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy are used to help change unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills.
Motivational interviewing and mindfulness practices are woven in to support lasting behavior change. Clients can expect a collaborative process where goals are set together. Michelle focuses on realistic steps and ongoing skill practice.
She frames progress as gradual and practical rather than overnight transformation.
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Michelle lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Michelle’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person without judgment. It helps people feel heard and clarifies what they want to change in their life. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, adds specific coping skills for emotion regulation and managing intense reactions, which can help with stress, anger, and relationship strain.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle will talk with the client about their goals and try small strategies to see what fits. Together they adjust methods and practice skills that match the person's needs and preferences rather than forcing a single way of working.
Online sessions allow flexible access to care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and skill coaching. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can help with quick updates, brief coaching, or ongoing reminders between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy parenting schedules and varied routines.
Questions people ask about Michelle
What issues does Michelle commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting concerns, and related problems like body image and caregiver stress.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is person-centered and collaborative with a focus on practical steps. She blends supportive listening with skill-building and goal setting.
What is her professional background?
She has seven years of experience working with people from diverse backgrounds and with complex medical and mental health concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds the Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential (LCSW) and is based in Florida with NY LCSW and FL LCSW credentials.
Can sessions be held in other languages or with international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does cost work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to start working together?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session according to therapist availability.
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