Michelle Underwood, LMHC

Michelle Underwood is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by guiding them through stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and major life changes. Her manner is direct and compassionate, aimed at practical steps people can use between sessions.

Michelle creates a nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through trauma, addiction concerns, identity questions, and intimacy-related issues. She helps people notice patterns that get in the way and practices small, doable changes that build over time. Sessions often include talking, reflection, and real-life experiments to test new ways of coping.

She brings a broad set of approaches to match different needs. That includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and act on them, Attachment-Based ideas for relationship and attachment concerns, and client-centered work that follows the person's pace. Michelle also uses existential perspectives and the Gottman Method tools when relationship work is helpful.

Michelle sees anxiety, depression, grief, ADHD-related struggles, and life-stage questions such as aging and abandonment concerns. She also supports people dealing with eating and sleeping problems, chronic illness or pain, and substance use issues. Her work often addresses family of origin and communication patterns that recur across relationships.

Michelle practices in Florida and holds the credential LMHC, Licensed Mental Health Counselor. Sessions are conducted in English. To begin, prospective clients use the site Start Therapy button to complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule based on availability.

Approaches that translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people identify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and focuses on building safer ways of relating and communicating. The Gottman Method provides concrete exercises and tools aimed at improving communication and reducing conflict in close relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and daily life to choose methods that fit. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as new needs or insights emerge.

Confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow check-ins during breaks or from different locations. It also supports continuing work when life transitions make in-person visits harder. Licensed professionals, including therapists, can adapt exercises and homework so the work remains practical and relevant in everyday life.