Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
How Michelle works
- Not listed
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Years in practice
- 21
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Michelle
Michelle Curry is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of practice. She offers steady, practical help for people dealing with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and other life challenges. Her approach centers on listening, empathy, and giving clear tools you can use between sessions.
She focuses on understanding how day-to-day struggles and past experiences shape feelings and behavior. Michelle helps people spot patterns that fuel anger, anxiety, or low self-esteem, and she works with clients to build better coping skills and healthier communication.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize straightforward steps and realistic goals that fit your life. Michelle brings long experience supporting people through grief, trauma and abuse, career strain, parenting stress, and identity-related concerns for LGBT clients. She also addresses issues such as ADHD, bipolar disorder, body image, and caregiver stress.
Her background includes work across a range of clinical situations in Illinois over two decades. Therapy with Michelle usually combines attentive listening with practical strategies. She explains options in everyday language and helps clients try techniques between sessions.
The aim is to reduce distress and increase daily functioning rather than rely on jargon. Michelle provides services in English and offers multiple online session formats. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.
She wants to help clients feel heard and to build skills that fit their real life.
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Evidence-based techniques for online care
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on change and coping. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and build more balanced thinking. This method is practical for anxiety, depression, anger, and stress because it shows how thoughts shape feelings and behavior.Another approach emphasizes skill building for emotion regulation and communication. It teaches concrete steps to reduce intense reactions, improve how you speak about needs, and manage conflict in day-to-day life. This is useful for anger, relationship strain, and coping with life changes.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle works with each person to match techniques to their goals, needs, and preferences. She explains options in plain language and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video calls work well for deeper conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These formats make therapy more flexible and help people keep momentum during busy weeks.
Questions people ask about Michelle
What kinds of problems does Michelle address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma and abuse, and related concerns such as self-esteem and body image.
What is her general approach in sessions?
Sessions focus on listening, empathy, and practical tools. She helps people identify patterns and practice skills that can be used between appointments.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Michelle has been practicing as a licensed clinical social worker for 21 years, working across a range of mental health concerns in Illinois.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds an LCSW (licensed clinical social worker) credential and practices in Illinois.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats does she use for online care?
Therapy is available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How does payment 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 therapy with Michelle?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.