Michelle Coppins, LPC

Michelle Coppins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Michigan with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, career shifts, relationship concerns, and midlife transitions in clear, practical ways.

Michelle works with people facing many life changes. That can include divorce, new parenting challenges, grief after a loss, fertility struggles, or feeling isolated. She pays attention to real day-to-day problems and helps clients find doable ways to respond differently to those stresses.

Her approach centers on the person in front of her. She listens without judgment and helps clients name what feels unmanageable. From there she and the client try new ways of thinking and behaving that fit the client’s goals and life situation.

Michelle also integrates strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy when helpful. Those techniques focus on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing small changes in behavior to reduce anxiety and lift mood. Clients usually learn concrete skills they can use after sessions end.

Sessions emphasize collaboration and practical skill building. Michelle aims to help people clarify goals, try different approaches, and build coping tools for future challenges. She invites people to talk honestly and to shape therapy around what matters most to them.

How Michelle’s approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following the client’s lead to understand what matters most. It helps when someone needs to talk through life choices, relationship questions, parenting stress, or feelings of isolation.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice habits of thinking that increase worry or low mood, and then try small changes in thoughts and behavior. It is useful for anxiety, depression, social anxiety, and coping with life transitions like midlife changes.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle will work with each person to decide whether to focus more on person-centered listening, CBT techniques, or a mix that fits the client’s goals and preferences. They will set priorities together and check progress as therapy continues.

Session formats are not specified in the provided biography, so please confirm current options before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, reduce commuting time, or allow a quieter check-in when leaving work is difficult. Licensed professionals can adapt session length and focus to match what someone needs that week, whether practicing a CBT exercise or working through an emotional topic in a person-centered way.