About Michelle
Michelle Lake is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Michigan. She brings four years of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and the stress of daily life. Michelle focuses on clear, practical steps so people feel safer and more in control between sessions.
She uses somatic ideas alongside cognitive and acceptance-based methods to link physical sensations with emotions. Sessions often include simple breath work, tracking body signals, and talking through what comes up.
Background and approach
Michelle keeps the conversation grounded and direct so parents and busy adults can use what they learn right away. Her work covers a range of concerns, including parenting strain, relationship tension, ADHD challenges, trauma and abuse, and coping with career or life changes. She also helps with sleep problems, low self-esteem, anger, and compassion fatigue.
The aim is to reduce overwhelm and build steady skills for day-to-day life. Michelle describes her style as warm and interactive. She listens without judgment and adjusts the pace to each person’s needs.
Together with a client she shapes goals and practical steps to meet them. To begin, she asks people to share what feels most urgent and what they hope to change. From there she creates a plan that mixes talking, body-awareness practices, and thought-focused exercises.
The focus is on small, useful shifts people can maintain long term.
How therapeutic approaches adapt to online care
Somatic work in an online setting focuses on noticing physical sensations and patterns during conversations. The therapist guides simple body-awareness practices, breath work, and gentle movement cues that can help people connect sensations to feelings and manage stress in daily life. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) centers on noticing thoughts and values-based action. It helps people accept difficult inner experiences while choosing actions that move them toward what matters most. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship. The therapist offers empathic listening and mirrors concerns so people feel heard and can explore solutions at their own pace.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they try methods and adjust based on what works, mixing somatic practices, ACT strategies, and client-centered support when useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit work on stress, sleep, or parenting into a busy week. Sessions can be shorter check-ins or regular conversations, allowing people to practise skills at home and bring real-life situations into sessions for immediate support.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English