- Self-esteem work
- Guilt and shame
- Faith-informed perspective
About Michelle
Michelle Alden is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with 16 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing depression, anxiety, stress, relationship difficulties, and trauma. She also focuses on rebuilding self-esteem, exploring life purpose, and developing self-love.
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help clients process painful events and relationship strain. She helps people talk through communication problems, social anxiety, and the sorrow that comes with divorce and separation. Guilt and shame are named areas she addresses, alongside forgiveness work.
Michelle is comfortable incorporating clients' faith perspectives when that matters to them and notes an understanding of Christian values. She has experience supporting a wide age range, including children and adolescents as well as adults, during major life transitions and emotional challenges.
In sessions she favors clear, practical steps and steady conversation. People can expect to look at past experiences, current patterns, and small behavioral changes that fit day-to-day life. She describes her work as direct and respectful, aiming for honest dialogue about what is getting in the way.
Her practice emphasizes gradual progress rather than quick fixes. Michelle encourages people to bring concrete examples and to try small experiments between sessions. That way the work stays focused on problems that matter in everyday living.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions fit
Michelle draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with small behavioral experiments. This helps people who struggle with anxiety, low mood, or self-critical thinking to notice different choices in daily life.Another commonly used approach centers on processing past painful events and reducing their emotional hold. That kind of work can support people dealing with trauma, guilt, or shame by breaking down overwhelming memories into manageable pieces and building new responses over time.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. She will help clients and therapists collaborate to decide which methods fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying something, checking how it felt, and adjusting the plan together.
Session logistics should be confirmed before booking since the biography does not list specific formats. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example by cutting travel time, allowing shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, or letting people choose whether to use video or audio. Confirm current session options when you schedule so you can pick what fits your routine.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
16+ years
Listed in
Georgia
Languages
English, Spanish
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she focus on?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and depression. Additional areas include communication problems, divorce and separation, forgiveness, guilt and shame, life purpose, mood disorders, self-love, and social anxiety.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and practical conversation. Sessions emphasize clear steps and behavior changes alongside processing feelings.
How much experience does she have?
She has 16 years of experience working with people facing mood and relationship challenges.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - practicing in Georgia.
Can sessions be conducted in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Does she accept international clients?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How do sessions and costs work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to start working together?
Click the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.