Michelle Slater

Michelle Slater is a Florida LMHC with 25 years of clinical and teaching experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting pressures, ADHD, and life changes. Her work often addresses attachment concerns, mood shifts, and questions about life purpose.

Michelle uses clear, direct conversation to help clients notice patterns that keep them stuck. She draws on Client-Centered ideas to prioritize the client's perspective. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes.

Sessions tend to focus on practical skills for managing emotion and improving communication. For couples or partners she integrates elements of the Gottman Method to sharpen interaction habits and reduce recurring fights. Parents are offered strategies to ease caregiver stress and improve day-to-day coping.

Michelle describes therapy as a collaborative process. She listens, reflects, and offers concrete options people can try between sessions. Progress is paced to what each person can handle and often centers on reducing overwhelm and increasing clearer decision-making.

Her background includes graduate degrees in Counselor Education from the University of Florida and long experience teaching in clinical settings. She works in Florida and conducts sessions in English. Prospective clients are asked to confirm current session formats before booking and to use the platform matching steps to schedule a first session.

How her approaches translate to online sessions

Michelle uses Client-Centered Therapy to prioritize each person's perspective by listening and reflecting what matters to them. That approach helps people feel understood and clarifies what they want to change or explore.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes. CBT is practical for managing anxiety, low mood, and stress by breaking problems into clear steps and experiments.

For relationship work she incorporates the Gottman Method to improve interaction patterns and reduce recurring conflict. Those techniques focus on communication habits and concrete rituals couples can practice between sessions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and preferences. She discusses options, tracks progress, and adjusts methods if something isn’t helping.

Confirm which session formats she currently offers before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when time is tight, and reduce travel time. Licensed professionals can use remote sessions to focus on skills work, thought records, behavioral experiments, and communication practice without promising any particular outcome.