- Years in practice
- 11
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Parenting issues
About Michele
Michele Walker is a licensed clinical mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and parenting challenges. She brings a calm, nonjudgmental presence so clients can talk honestly about difficult feelings. Michele focuses on building practical skills and clearer communication to make day-to-day life easier.
She uses a client-centered, strengths-based way of working that starts with where each person is now. Sessions focus on understanding current struggles, spotting what already works, and trying small changes that add up.
Background and approach
Michele also uses evidence-informed techniques when they fit a person's needs and goals. Michele draws on 11 years of counseling experience in a variety of settings in North Carolina. She highlights education and gentle coaching in sessions to help clients learn new tools.
That can include breathing and grounding, thought tracking, and problem-solving for stressful moments. Clients often come to Michele for help with trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, identity questions, grief, and life transitions. She also supports people dealing with ADHD, codependency, and issues related to kink and alternative sex culture.
Michele aims to help people rediscover values and strengths they want to build on. Work with Michele usually looks like regular conversations focused on specific goals. She helps people try out small behavior changes, notice results, and adjust plans together.
The pace and focus shift to match each person’s needs.
What Michele works with
Everything Michele lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Michele helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Michele lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches You’ll Use in Online Sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client’s concerns. It helps people feel heard and supported while they name goals and try small changes. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches concrete practices for shifting unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stressful daily routines.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they choose or combine methods and adjust them over time to fit what the person needs and how they respond.
Online therapy offers several practical options: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or movement matters, live chat for short check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to schedule sessions around work, childcare, or other commitments and let people pick the style that helps them engage and practice skills most effectively.
Questions people ask about Michele
What concerns does Michele commonly address?
Michele works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, self-esteem, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, career and life changes, ADHD, and identity matters.
How would you describe her therapy style?
She uses a client-centered, strengths-based approach and incorporates practical techniques like skill-building and psychoeducation to help people make changes that matter.
What kind of clinical background does she have?
She has 11 years of professional experience working in counseling and related settings and emphasizes learning and self-understanding in sessions.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She holds the LCMHC credential and practices in North Carolina.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What formats are available for sessions?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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