Michelle Evans, MD, LCPC, LCMHC

Michelle Evans is a therapist based in Vermont who helps people manage stress, anxiety, eating concerns, parenting challenges, and major life changes. She has 17 years of clinical experience and holds MD, LCPC, and LCMHC credentials. Her approach is straightforward and practical, aimed at making therapy feel warm and welcoming for people finding this for the first time.

She draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is part of her work when people want to build values-based goals and cope with difficult emotions. She also uses client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on each person’s priorities.

Michelle has deep experience with eating disorders, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive presentations. She also supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, career concerns, grief, and trauma and abuse. Additional focus areas include body image, caregiver stress, and family of origin issues.

Sessions can include skills practice from Dialectical Behavior Therapy when emotion regulation or distress tolerance is needed. She works with people around ADHD, codependency, and communication problems, tailoring tools to everyday life. Michelle aims to make therapy concrete and usable between sessions.

Therapy is offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits their routine.

How Michelle’s approaches work online

Michelle uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns of thinking that feed anxiety or low mood, and to try concrete behavior changes that can shift day-to-day functioning. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is used when people want to connect actions with their values and learn to live with difficult feelings without getting stuck.

Her approach is collaborative. She works with each person to choose which methods fit their goals and life. That means together they will pick tools and exercises that match what the person wants to change and how they prefer to work, and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and skills practice that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter conversation is needed. Text and chat work well for brief check-ins, practicing skills between sessions, or when someone prefers written communication. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or school schedules while keeping the focus on practical, doable steps.