Michelle Smith
Calm strategies for clearer living
LCMHC, LMHC Oklahoma
- Experience
- 10 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Grief
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Michelle
Michelle Smith is a licensed mental health counselor who draws on cognitive behavioral therapy alongside other evidence-informed methods to help clients navigate life transitions and emotional challenges.
Background and approach
With a decade of experience in the field, she focuses on practical strategies for stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, and self-esteem while addressing relationship, intimacy, and family dynamics. Her work also spans grief, trauma and abuse, parenting struggles, career stress, and a broad range of additional concerns including ADHD, eating and sleeping difficulties, and compassion fatigue.
Michelle practices with a client-centered, nonjudgmental stance that emphasizes collaboration and realistic goal-setting. She integrates approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based work, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to tailor interventions to each person’s situation.
Licensed in multiple jurisdictions as LCMHC and LMHC, she welcomes clients seeking coping skills, communication improvements, and support through complex life events. Michelle aims to offer practical, compassionate guidance so people can move from surviving toward a life that better reflects their values and priorities.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Michelle uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop practical skills for managing symptoms like anxiety, depression, and stress; CBT focuses on changing thoughts and behaviors to improve daily functioning. She also employs Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which blends acceptance strategies with values-based action to help people live more meaningfully even when difficult emotions are present. In addition, Attachment-Based Therapy informs her work on relationship patterns and communication by exploring how early relational experiences influence current connections and coping.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each client to evaluate which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust techniques over time as progress and priorities evolve. This collaborative stance helps tailor treatment to what is most useful for the individual.
Online formats offer flexible ways to engage in these therapies through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Those options make it easier to attend sessions from varied locations and to integrate therapeutic skills into daily life, while allowing licensed professionals to provide structured interventions and ongoing support in ways that match a client's schedule and communication style.
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Experience
10+ years
Licensed
Florida, Oklahoma, Oregon, New Hampshire
Languages
English