- Years in practice
- 4
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Michelle
Michelle Lake is a licensed professional counselor in Michigan who focuses on practical, down-to-earth help for parents under stress. She brings four years of counseling experience and listens without judgment. Her style is warm and interactive, aimed at helping people find useful ways to handle day-to-day challenges.
Michelle often works with anxiety, depression, parenting concerns, and addiction. She also supports people who have gone through physical trauma or emotional abuse.
Background and approach
Her work includes help for sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, grief, and career transitions. Her sessions blend cognitive behavioral techniques with client-centered and acceptance-based ideas. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try small experiments, and focus on values that matter most.
Conversations are tailored to each person’s needs and paced to match what they can handle. Michelle aims to make therapy straightforward. She uses language people recognize and offers tools they can try between sessions.
She also draws on mindfulness and existential ideas to help people find meaning and steady themselves when life feels overwhelming. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. People interested in starting fill out a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on the therapist’s availability.
What Michelle works with
Everything Michelle lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Michelle helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
Approaches Michelle lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic 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 that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, parenting stress, and coping with life changes. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and responding with respect so people can lead the conversation and find their own solutions. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, empathetic space to sort through emotions and decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and uses small experiments and practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with sleep, mood, and anxious thinking.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and daily life. Together they will try techniques, review what helps, and adjust the plan based on real progress and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility that can make regular sessions easier to keep. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more interaction is needed. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, managing momentary stress, or keeping momentum between longer sessions.
Questions people ask about Michelle
What concerns does she address?
Michelle helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, addiction, trauma and abuse, and related issues like sleep, anger, and self-esteem.
What is her therapy style like?
Her approach is warm and interactive. Sessions focus on practical strategies, mindful awareness, and conversations guided by what matters to the person.
What experience does she bring?
She has four years of counseling experience working with a range of concerns including trauma, addiction, ADHD, and relationship and parenting issues.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She holds the LPC credential and is licensed in Michigan.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire, then schedule according to the therapist’s availability.
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