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Michelle Boyles

Experienced LCSW focusing on practical coping strategies

LCSW Florida

Experience
25 years in practice
Focus areas
Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Family
Approaches
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
Languages
English
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About Michelle

Michelle Boyles is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people navigate stress, mood concerns, substance use issues, trauma, and family conflicts. She brings a practical focus on building insight, learning coping strategies, and developing tools to manage life transitions and relationship struggles.

Background and approach

Holding an LCSW in Florida, she emphasizes collaborative care that helps clients understand patterns and try new ways of responding. Her background includes a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Penn State and a Master of Social Work from Georgia State University.

Across inpatient crisis stabilization, residential programs, and outpatient therapy, she has worked with varied age groups and clinical presentations. She integrates person-centered listening with evidence-informed techniques such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, DBT skills, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to tailor support to each person’s goals and circumstances.

Michelle aims to create a practical, compassionate approach that balances education, skill-building, and emotional processing. She often focuses on concrete strategies for coping with anxiety, grief, addiction, communication problems, and the stresses that accompany caregiving and major life changes.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Michelle often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify unhelpful thoughts and learn practical strategies for changing behaviors and emotional responses. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and habit-related problems by focusing on skills and structured practice. She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which emphasizes empathetic listening and a collaborative relationship to help clients explore feelings and discover their own solutions.

Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. She works with each person to consider goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, adapting methods as therapy progresses so the plan fits the client's needs rather than following a rigid protocol.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life changes, and use brief check-ins or messaging between appointments to support skill practice and progress.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, relationship and family problems, grief, depression, bipolar symptoms, anger, self-esteem, and career-related concerns.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her approach blends client-centered listening with evidence-informed techniques like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to teach coping skills and insight-oriented work.
How much experience does she have?
She has worked in mental health and substance abuse counseling for 25 years and has been a master's-level licensed therapist since 2001.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She is an LCSW licensed in Florida with the license number FL LCSW SW10918 and practices from Florida.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or accept international clients?
Sessions are offered in English, and she is not currently accepting international clients.
Which session formats are available?
She provides a variety of online session formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions are delivered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are involved to begin working together?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyAddictionsFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseCoping with life changes

Also works with

LGBTRelationship issuesGriefAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderDepressionCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAging and geriatric issuesCaregiver issues and stressCo-morbidityCodependencyCommunication problemsDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsForgivenessGuilt and shameImpulsivityIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeMen's issuesMidlife crisisMood disordersObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksPersonality disordersPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSexual assault and abuseSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingSolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

25+ years

Licensed

Florida

Languages

English