Michelle Underwood, LMHC

Michelle Underwood is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 15 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, or struggles with addiction. Michelle aims to make sessions straightforward and useful so clients can take steps forward between appointments.

She uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. That can include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clarify values and take action, attachment-based work to untangle relationship patterns, and client-centered listening to follow what matters most to the client. Existential perspectives and elements of the Gottman Method inform her work with relationship concerns.

Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Michelle helps clients name problems, set manageable goals, and practice small changes. She also works on coping skills for sleep, eating, grief, anger, and the ups and downs of parenting and life transitions.

Her practice attends to a broad range of concerns such as trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, LGBT questions, ADHD, substance use and other addictions, body image, chronic illness, and family-of-origin patterns. Michelle emphasizes understanding how past experiences shape present choices and relationships.

People looking to start are invited to reflect on specific goals before meeting. Michelle supports clients who want both short-term coaching and longer therapeutic work. Her aim is to help people find clearer direction and steadier day-to-day coping.

How therapy approaches guide online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take steps toward those values, even when anxiety or cravings make change hard. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect present connections and trust, which can be useful for intimacy and relationship difficulties. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so the client leads the pace and topics of each session.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and life situation. She adjusts techniques over time so sessions stay useful and relevant.

Confirm the session formats before booking to know what is offered. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, for example by reducing travel time and allowing scheduling during breaks. Some approaches translate well to remote conversation and homework between sessions, such as values-based exercises from ACT or attachment-focused dialogue. Ask about practical details when you schedule so sessions align with your day-to-day needs.