Michelle Smith

Michelle Smith is a licensed mental health counselor with over 10 years of experience. She holds LCMHC and LMHC credentials and practices in Oklahoma. Michelle focuses on helping people adjust when life shifts feel overwhelming and unclear.

Her work emphasizes practical steps to manage stress, anxiety, and grief. She uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based work, Client-Centered therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to tailor support to each person. Sessions focus on clear goals and usable skills rather than therapy jargon.

Michelle often helps people facing relationship strain, changes in family roles, parenting stress, career transitions, or challenges tied to mood and attention. She also supports concerns around self-esteem, intimacy-related issues, trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping, and compassion fatigue. Her practice includes work with LGBT concerns and a range of attachment and identity themes.

Her background includes a decade in mental health settings serving diverse communities and age groups. Michelle describes her style as client-centered and nonjudgmental, aiming to meet people where they are. She emphasizes collaboration and practical strategies that fit daily life rather than abstract plans.

If you want to explore changes and build a livable next step, the process begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and international clients may be accepted. Confirm current session options before booking.

How therapeutic approaches inform online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small, practical steps toward those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete techniques to shift unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, low mood, and insomnia. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes skill building in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can help when emotions feel overwhelming.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick and adapt methods that match their goals and daily life. That means trying practical techniques, tracking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.

Confirm the specific online session options before booking, since formats are not listed in the biography. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a weekday, reduce travel time, or allow a shorter check-in during a break. They also let people use tools like worksheets, behavioral experiments, and in-session coaching that transfer into everyday routines.