Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Coping with life changes
How Michelle works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Michelle
Michelle Boyles is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, substance use, relationship strain, and life transitions. Michelle speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for worried parents and adults searching for help.
She draws on a mix of practical tools and supportive conversation. Sessions emphasize clear coping techniques, ways to rethink unhelpful thoughts, and skills for handling overwhelming emotions.
Background and approach
Michelle also offers guidance for grief, caregiver strain, and issues that come from family history. Her background includes a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Penn State University and a Master of Social Work from Georgia State University. She has worked in inpatient crisis stabilization, residential settings, and outpatient therapy across different age groups and care settings.
Her Florida LCSW credential is part of her professional profile. In session she focuses on teaching skills, building insight, and setting small, realistic goals. She uses strategies that include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, mindfulness, and motivational approaches.
Conversations are practical and goal-oriented, with room to address painful experiences and trauma. Michelle aims to help people find tools that fit their life. That might mean short-term strategies for immediate needs or ongoing work to change long-standing patterns.
She supports people through anger, addiction, grief, career questions, and questions of identity and purpose.
What Michelle works with
Everything Michelle lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Michelle's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's 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 therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following the client's lead to set goals. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to talk through feelings and decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful thinking patterns and build new behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and anger management.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. These skills are practical for intense emotions, impulsivity, and relationship conflicts.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with the client to identify needs, try techniques, and adjust the plan over time. That collaborative process helps match methods to goals and to what feels most useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility. Video calls allow real-time conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support brief updates, homework, and ongoing skills practice between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and try different formats to see what works best.
Questions people ask about Michelle
What concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, addictions, grief, relationship problems, and life changes among other concerns.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her style is practical and client-centered, combining supportive listening with skills-based approaches to manage emotions and behaviors.
How much experience does she have?
She has 25 years of experience in mental health and substance abuse counseling and has held a master's-level license since 2001.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds a Florida LCSW and practices from Florida.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats does she offer?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.