About Michelle
Michelle Molina offers a supportive and individualized approach for people facing stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, confidence struggles, career crossroads, and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
With 10 years of clinical experience as an Illinois-licensed counselor (LCPC), she focuses on building a respectful, sensitive therapeutic alliance and customizes conversations and treatment plans to each person’s circumstances. Her work also addresses communication and family problems, questions about life purpose and self-love, women’s issues, and challenges often encountered by young adults.
In sessions she draws on a blend of evidence-informed methods to meet practical goals while honoring each client’s story. Michelle emphasizes collaboration and motivation, helping clients identify strengths and practical steps for change while attending to underlying patterns that influence current concerns.
She recognizes the courage it takes to begin therapy and aims to create a compassionate environment where clients can explore priorities, develop coping skills, and pursue meaningful growth.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Michelle integrates client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to support clients in online sessions. Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathetic listening and collaboration, creating space for clients to explore values and goals while guiding the pace of change. Cognitive behavioral therapy offers practical tools to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be useful for anxiety, stress, and confidence work.Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to determine which methods fit their situation and preferences, adjusting techniques over time to reflect evolving goals and needs. This partnership helps tailor a plan that balances short-term problem solving with deeper personal insight.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and maintain continuity when circumstances change. These formats provide flexible ways to engage in coaching, skills practice, reflective work, and brief check-ins, supporting ongoing progress from wherever clients are located in Illinois.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Family problems
- Life purpose
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English