Michelle St. Raymond, LCSW

Michelle St. Raymond is a licensed clinical social worker with 31 years of practice in Louisiana. She brings a heart-centered approach to therapy and focuses on helping people navigate major life changes. Her work emphasizes practical steps and self-compassion over judgment. Michelle writes plainly and meets people where they are in the moment. Her practice centers on trauma recovery, family of origin patterns, and relationship shifts. She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help clients clarify values and take meaningful steps forward. Michelle pays attention to how the body and emotions stay stuck during transitions like aging, job changes, health challenges, and family re-creations. She teaches skills to notice physical signals and to calm reactive patterns. That helps people find steadier choices instead of acting from fear or overwhelm. Sessions emphasize simple, usable tools: thought tracking, behavioral experiments, short mindfulness practices, and values-based goal setting. Michelle supports work on anxiety, depression, grief, parenting stress, relationship issues, addiction-related concerns, sleep and eating problems, and coping with chronic illness or caregiving strain. Her manner is collaborative but grounded. She helps clients set goals, try small actions, and adjust as needed. The client leads the direction while Michelle offers guidance and structure for change.

How therapeutic approaches guide online care

Michelle often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavior changes. CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and coping with life stressors.

She also incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas that focus on clarifying personal values and taking meaningful action even when difficult feelings are present. ACT can be helpful for grief, chronic pain, caregiving stress, and when someone feels stuck moving forward.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, symptoms, and preferences, and then suggest techniques to try. That plan can be adjusted over time based on what helps most and what the client prefers.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people see facial cues for relational work, phone can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth needs, and messaging or chat supports brief check-ins or written exercises between sessions. These options make it easier to keep a steady schedule despite busy lives, caregiving duties, or mobility limits.