Michelle Price, LPC

Michelle Price is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 14 years of experience. She supports people facing anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, ADHD, parenting strain, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and stress related to caregiving and career changes.

She favors a straightforward, skills-focused style. Sessions tend to be practical and goal-oriented. Michelle uses tools that help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and build new coping skills.

Her background is rooted in community mental health. She has run outpatient, crisis, intensive in-home, and therapeutic day treatment programs. That work shaped her approach to common and complex problems across stages of life.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is a central part of her practice because it offers clear steps people can use between sessions. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. When trauma is involved she uses trauma-focused strategies to address painful memories and reactions.

Michelle aims to partner with each person to set realistic goals. She keeps language plain and uses exercises and worksheets as tools. The focus is on what can be done now to reduce distress and build routines that work.

She provides care from Virginia and conducts sessions in English. People can expect a collaborative, structured approach that blends problem-solving with attention to relationship patterns and emotional safety.

How Michelle’s approaches translate to online care

Michelle draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and to teach practical tools for change; CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy helps examine how early relationship patterns affect current connections and can be useful for intimacy, parenting, and relationship struggles. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on processing distressing memories and reducing their hold on daily life when past events continue to cause high levels of fear or avoidance.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals and preferences, then try techniques together to see what fits best. That collaborative process means plans can change as needs become clearer.

Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and emotional check-ins. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a quick conversation fits a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between sessions or use short, written check-ins when talking aloud feels hard. These options make fitting therapy into family life, work schedules, or school commitments easier while keeping the focus on practical change and relationship patterns.