Michelle’s utilizes a person centered/strength-based approach in helping others. She works to help others navigate through difficult situations, providing support, guidance and empathy. Michelle helps to build and develop individual skill sets with her clients enabling them to better manage and respond to stress and improve healthy levels of functioning. She incorporates client perspective into goal setting, family/relationship work and helps her clients increase feelings of satisfaction, happiness and peace. Michelle’s has over 15years helping others in the mental and behavioral health setting. She has primarily focused her work on helping children, adolescents and families within a residential setting. She has a great deal of experience and training helping overcome symptoms of trauma, navigating and improving difficult relationships, providing academic support and guidance and supporting those working through complexities of grief.