Michelle Coffey
Compassionate, practical therapy for real-life change
LCSW Florida
- Experience
- 7 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Relationship
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Michelle
Michelle Coffey is a licensed clinical social worker with seven years of professional experience who focuses on collaborative, person-centered care. She blends empathy with practical strategies to help clients navigate stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, mood disorders, and complex medical or caregiving challenges.
Background and approach
Her practice emphasizes listening first and then co-creating realistic steps toward meaningful change. Michelle uses a mix of evidence-informed methods, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness skills, and skills from dialectical behavioral approaches to address symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.
She has worked with people facing trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping difficulties, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and a wide range of life transitions and coping challenges. Her aim is to support clients in building insight, strengthening coping skills, and making tangible shifts that fit each person’s values and goals.
Based in Florida, Michelle brings a calm, accepting stance to sessions and adapts interventions to suit individual needs. She offers multiple remote session formats to increase accessibility and supports clients as they work toward sustainable improvements in relationships, emotional regulation, and overall well-being.
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Care
Michelle integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy into remote sessions to address distressing thoughts, unhelpful behaviors, and interpersonal challenges. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing thought and behavior patterns that contribute to anxiety, depression, and problematic coping, while Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes empathic listening and collaboration to help clients explore their values and goals.She also draws from Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills, which teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness; these tools can help with intense emotions, relationship stress, and crisis coping. Together, these approaches offer a balance of practical skill-building and supportive, strengths-based exploration to match different needs.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Michelle works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods best suit their goals and preferences. She tailors interventions based on each person’s concerns and adjusts the plan as progress unfolds.
Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit care into busy lives and to continue work despite geographic or scheduling barriers. These formats support continuity of care, flexible scheduling, and ongoing skill practice between sessions, helping clients apply new strategies in daily life.
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Experience
7+ years
Licensed
Florida, New York
Languages
English