Michelle Skoien
Resilience-focused counseling with practical skills
LMHC Florida
- Experience
- 25 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Grief, Self esteem
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Michelle
Michelle Skoien is a licensed mental health counselor (FL LMHC MH6482) who focuses on helping people build resilience and regain balance after difficult life events.
Background and approach
With 25 years of experience, she teaches practical skills for managing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, parenting challenges, ADHD, and transitions so clients can feel more calm and confident. Her work emphasizes addressing feelings of guilt, shame, and forgiveness while helping clients explore life purpose and self-love.
She creates a welcoming environment where learning and practicing new coping tools is central to progress. Michelle blends client-centered listening with evidence-informed methods like cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness practices, and solution-focused techniques to tailor sessions to each person’s needs.
Her aim is to foster perseverance and hope while supporting improvements across physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual areas of life. Based in Florida, Michelle offers a strengths-based approach that frames difficulties as opportunities to develop greater resilience.
She draws on decades of clinical experience to guide people through grief and loss, classroom-related coping for children, and broad life adjustments, encouraging steady growth and renewed purpose.
Practical Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care
Michelle often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients identify and shift unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors; this approach is useful for addressing anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday challenges by teaching concrete coping skills. She also incorporates client-centered therapy, which emphasizes empathetic listening and collaboration so clients feel heard and can explore values, grief, self-esteem, and life purpose at their own pace.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle works with each person to determine which combination of techniques best fits their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting methods over time as progress and priorities change.
Online sessions through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make it easier to access regular support while balancing work, family, or other commitments. These flexible formats allow for skill teaching, guided mindfulness practice, and solution-focused planning to continue between meetings, helping clients integrate new strategies into daily life.
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Experience
25+ years
Licensed
Florida
Languages
English