Michaela Flash, LCSW

Michaela Flash is an LCSW who uses practical, skills-based approaches to help people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on clear strategies people can use between sessions. Her style is direct and collaborative, aimed at short- and mid-term goals.

Michaela has four years of clinical social work experience. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotional regulation and distress tolerance for intense moments.

Her work often centers on relationship concerns, self-esteem, career stress, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses attachment issues, dependent personality patterns, fertility and immigration-related stress, and challenges linked to prejudice or multicultural identity. People seeking support around infidelity, loneliness, or young adult transitions can also look to her approach.

Michaela blends Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy when people need help finding practical next steps and building motivation for change. Sessions emphasize actionable plans and small experiments that fit daily life. Progress is tracked to keep work focused and concrete.

She practices in Indiana and conducts sessions in English. Her background as a first-generation American informs her attention to multicultural concerns and the effects of discrimination on wellbeing.

How evidence-based approaches work online

Michaela commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people identify unhelpful thought patterns and test new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, grounding techniques, and ways to handle intense emotions without acting on them.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Michaela will discuss goals and preferences and recommend CBT, DBT skills, Motivational Interviewing, or Solution-Focused techniques as fits the situation. This is a collaborative process and plans can be adjusted as needs change.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a break at work or use less bandwidth, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing brief updates and reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats to see what works best.