Michelle Burdick, LPC

Michelle Burdick is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan who uses clear, practical strategies to help people manage stress, anxiety, and life changes. She focuses on everyday problems like low self-esteem, grief, anger, and career concerns, and she aims to make progress feel doable for busy lives.

She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with mindfulness and solution-focused ideas. That means sessions often look at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect, practice small changes, and set concrete steps toward goals. Motivational interviewing and existential ideas help people clarify values and find motivation when things feel stuck.

Michelle draws on three years of counseling experience alongside a background in human resources. That mix informs practical career work such as resume review, interviewing skills, and job search planning. She helps people identify strengths and prepare for real-world conversations and decisions.

Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Clients can expect a mix of reflection, skill practice, and short action plans to try between meetings. Michelle works with concerns tied to fertility or cancer, life purpose questions, and social anxiety and phobia alongside general mood and coping issues.

Work style emphasizes collaboration and small, measurable steps. People leave with concrete strategies they can use right away and a clearer sense of priorities for their next steps.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Michelle uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and test small behavior changes. CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, depression, and social phobia by focusing on clear skills and experiments to try between sessions.

She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that lower reactivity and improve focus. These tools are useful for stress, anger, and coping during big life transitions. Existential Therapy is part of her approach too, helping people clarify values and find direction when facing questions about purpose or loss.

Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods as progress unfolds. Clients are invited to give feedback and shape the plan over time.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be a quicker check-in when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for short updates, skill coaching, or when written reflection feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules and to continue consistent progress.