About Michelle
Michelle Lake is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor practicing in Florida. She brings 17 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, grief, trauma, and life transitions. She also supports concerns such as parenting strain, intimacy issues, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and career questions.
Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. She listens first, then helps people set goals they can actually reach. Sessions focus on practical steps and skills that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
Michelle favors methods that help people clarify values, change unhelpful thinking, and strengthen close bonds. Michelle draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and emotionally focused ideas when useful. She also uses attachment-based and client-centered strategies to build trust and explore relationship patterns.
These methods are adapted to each person’s situation rather than applied in a rigid way. Clients can expect a warm and direct style. Michelle aims to create space for honest conversation and small, steady progress.
She helps people name what matters most and take actions that match those priorities. Michelle has worked in counseling roles for many years in Florida and holds the LMHC credential, Licensed Mental Health Counselor. She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging so people can choose what fits their schedule and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Michelle often blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify their values and take actions that matter, even when feelings are hard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thinking patterns and teaches concrete tools to reduce worry and lift mood.She also draws on Emotionally-Focused ideas and attachment-based work to address relationship patterns. These approaches help people understand how they connect with others and improve emotional closeness and communication. Michelle treats the choice of method as a collaborative process and will work with each person to find what fits their needs and goals.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for longer work and nonverbal cues, phone calls can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit shorter check-ins, and messaging is helpful for ongoing coaching-style support. These options make it easier to schedule regular sessions and keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English