Michelle Davis

Michelle Davis is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) practicing in Michigan with 13 years of clinical experience. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to ease stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. Her approach is straightforward and strengths-based, with an emphasis on clear goals and usable skills.

She helps people navigate parenting challenges, family conflict, career stress, grief, and concerns around intimacy and self-esteem. Michelle also supports clients managing ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, addiction, sleeping or eating difficulties, and adjustment after life changes. She pays attention to how a person’s history and relationships shape current struggles.

Michelle draws on client-centered work to shape sessions around each person’s priorities. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and build new patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas and mindfulness strategies are used when emotion regulation and stress tolerance are key goals.

In sessions she focuses on collaboration and practical tools. Conversations move from what matters now to specific steps that can be tried between meetings. Michelle adapts pacing and techniques to fit each person’s needs and strengths.

Her background includes support for adoption and foster care questions, attachment concerns, autism and Asperger Syndrome-related issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and family of origin problems. She works to make therapy a usable, hopeful part of everyday life.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s priorities. In practice that means sessions begin by asking what matters most and shaping each conversation around those concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete strategies to change patterns that keep problems going; it helps with anxiety, depression, and unhelpful routines.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with the person to decide which methods to try first, adjust plans based on what helps, and teach skills that can be used between sessions. This is an active, team-based process where goals and preferences guide the work.

Online therapy can make fitting work into a busy life easier, for example by reducing travel time and allowing sessions during workday breaks or after hours. If you are considering online meetings, confirm the current session options before booking so you know what formats are available. Many people find that digital sessions allow steady momentum while making it simpler to try skills in everyday routines.