Michelle Slater

Michelle Slater is a licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She also supports those coping with life changes and ADHD and addresses related concerns like body image, caregiver stress, and isolation. Michelle uses plain language and steady support to help people take small, practical steps toward feeling better.

She listens first and asks questions to understand what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on improving communication, building coping skills, and finding clearer daily routines that reduce overwhelm. Michelle uses client-centered work alongside cognitive behavioral strategies and relationship-focused tools to address patterns that get in the way of goals.

Her background includes long clinical and teaching experience in Florida and advanced graduate degrees in counselor education. She brings a calm, patient style and aims to make therapy easy to follow for people juggling busy lives. Michelle helps clients identify values, face hard feelings, and practice new ways of relating to themselves and others.

Common issues she helps with include mood concerns, attachment questions, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, forgiveness, and figuring out life purpose. Her sessions are intended to help people remove barriers to progress and build skills they can use between meetings.

People who choose her often want straightforward conversation, concrete tools, and a collaborative approach to change. Michelle encourages curiosity about patterns and supports practical experiments that can fit into everyday life.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and working from the client's priorities. It helps people feel heard and encourages self-directed change through honest reflection and support. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and offers simple exercises to test unhelpful beliefs and build new habits. The Gottman Method concentrates on communication patterns in relationships and teaches practical skills for managing conflict and improving closeness.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Confirm session formats before booking since specific options are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also let people use audiovisual tools for skills practice or choose sessions that focus on immediate communication or coping skills without needing a long commute. Ask about the available session formats during the matching and scheduling steps to find what fits best.