Michele Gouin, LMSW, LCSW

How Michele’s Approaches Work Online

Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and choices. It means the therapist listens closely and follows the client's lead to help clarify values and goals. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, validating space to talk through family or personal struggles.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Michele uses CBT techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and to practice new coping skills for anxiety, depression, and stress. It suits people who want concrete tools and short-term changes.

Emotionally-focused therapy centers on patterns in close relationships and how emotions shape connection. It helps people address intimacy, attachment, and recurring relationship pain by identifying emotions and changing interaction patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michele meets people where they are and suggests methods based on the client’s needs, goals, and preferences. She treats approach selection as a collaborative process and adjusts methods as progress is made.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Chat and messaging work for brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, and people who prefer writing. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.