Michelle Davis, LMSW

Michelle Davis is a licensed social worker in Michigan with 13 years of clinical experience. She uses a practical, talk-first approach to help people address anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship or parenting concerns. Her style is down-to-earth and focused on what will make life feel more manageable.

She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, client-centered techniques, and mindfulness tools to create sessions that fit each person. That means looking at thoughts and behaviors, listening to what matters most to the client, and practicing small changes that add up. Michelle highlights strengths and builds on what already works for each person.

Her background includes work with mood disorders, attention challenges such as ADHD, addiction concerns, grief, intimacy-related issues, and family-of-origin problems. She also has experience with adoption and foster care topics, attachment difficulties, and blended family dynamics. Michelle adapts conversations and plans to the issue at hand rather than using a one-size-fits-all script.

Sessions may include skill practice, thought tracking, emotion regulation strategies, and focused conversations about communication or decision points. She helps people set realistic steps and checks in on how those steps are going. The emphasis is on usable tools and steady progress.

Michelle believes the client is the expert in their life and centers their goals in each session. She aims to make the process understandable and approachable so people can take the next step toward feeling better.

Approach-focused online therapy that fits your life

Michelle uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try new, more effective behaviors. CBT sessions often include tracking thoughts, testing them against evidence, and practicing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms.

She also uses client-centered methods that make the client’s priorities central. That approach emphasizes listening, reflecting what matters, and letting the person set the pace and goals for therapy. For people dealing with intense emotions or relationship strain, Michelle draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills such as distress tolerance and emotion regulation to build practical coping tools.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle will talk with the client about goals, try methods that make sense for the situation, and adjust the plan based on what helps. The work is shared so the client can see which tools fit their life and needs.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while using the therapeutic approaches above.