About Michelle
Michelle St. Raymond is a licensed clinical social worker with 31 years of experience based in Louisiana. She approaches therapy as a guide alongside the person seeking change.
Her work centers on trauma recovery, relationships, and transitions that leave people feeling stuck. Michelle emphasizes practical steps and body awareness. She uses somatic ideas to help people notice how stress shows up in the body.
She also draws on cognitive approaches to shift thinking patterns that get in the way of daily life.
Background and approach
Her practice often focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and difficulties with self-esteem and intimacy. She supports people dealing with addiction, caregiving strain, chronic health challenges, and job or life changes. Parenting concerns, family dynamics, and issues around body image and eating are also part of her work.
Sessions aim to blend talk and felt experience. Michelle helps people develop skills to manage difficult emotions and make concrete changes. She encourages self-compassion while working toward realistic goals people can act on between sessions.
Clients can expect a warm, down-to-earth approach that honors both feelings and practical needs. Michelle frames therapy as a collaborative process where the person’s goals and values shape each step forward.
Approaches for mind and body in online care
Michelle combines somatic-informed work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based ideas to help people facing stress, trauma, and relationship strains. Somatic-informed work encourages people to notice physical sensations and how emotions appear in the body, which can help when anxiety or trauma feel stuck. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying values and taking committed action even when uncomfortable thoughts or feelings appear. Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationship patterns shape current connection and trust.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Michelle collaborates with each person to see which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time so work in sessions can translate into real-life changes.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or mobility limitations. The variety of formats also allows people to choose the way of communicating that feels most comfortable as they try out new skills and habits.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English