Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
How Michelle works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Michelle
Michelle Underwood is a Florida licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience helping people manage strong emotions and life changes. She works with individuals who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anger, anxiety, or relationship struggles and wants to help them find steadier ways to cope. Her sessions are straightforward and focused.
She listens closely, helps clients name what is happening, and teaches practical skills to reduce emotional reactivity.
Background and approach
The goal is clearer thinking and calmer responses in day-to-day life. Michelle uses a mix of methods that match each person’s needs. She often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept difficult feelings while taking steps that matter to them.
Attachment-based ideas are used to look at how early relationships shape current reactions. Client-centered work keeps the person’s experience central to the process. She also brings experience with trauma, addiction, grief, sleep and eating concerns, and intimacy-related issues.
Michelle supports people dealing with ADHD, chronic health challenges, and identity questions including LGBT concerns. Her background includes helping people work through family-of-origin patterns and communication problems. Sessions can include practical coaching around boundaries, emotion regulation skills, and tools for improving communication.
Michelle aims to meet people where they are and build a plan that fits their daily life. She offers online options so people can connect in ways that work for them.
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Michelle lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting controlled by them, then choose actions that reflect their values. It can be useful for anger, anxiety, and coping with life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and connection patterns, which can help when relationship conflicts or intimacy issues fuel anger or avoidance. Client-Centered Therapy places the person's experience at the center of the work, offering a nonjudgmental space where self-understanding and personal choice guide change.Finding the best approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, day-to-day challenges, and what feels most helpful. Together they try different techniques and adjust the plan so the work feels relevant and useful for the person’s real life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep steady progress without extra travel.
Questions people ask about Michelle
What kinds of concerns does Michelle address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep and eating concerns, parenting strain, ADHD, and related family or identity questions.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is compassionate and practical. Sessions focus on listening, teaching skills, and building steps people can use between meetings.
What is her background and experience?
She has 15 years of clinical experience working with adults across a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, FL LMHC, practicing in Florida.
Which languages are supported and are international clients seen?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps do I take to begin working together?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.