Michele McShea, LCSW
Illinois · 19 years in practice
Michele McShea is a licensed clinical social worker with 19 years of experience helping people navigate life’s hard moments.
License and registration
- LCSW, Illinois
- 149013603 · expires November 2027
- NPI
- 1659686681 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 19
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Michele
Michele McShea is a licensed clinical social worker with 19 years of experience helping people navigate life’s hard moments. She works with individuals on problems like anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and relationship struggles. Michele aims to help people build confidence and find practical ways to feel better in day-to-day life.
Her approach blends talking and action. Michele uses strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns rooted in family of origin and early relationships.
Background and approach
Michele values meaning and choice in life, so existential ideas shape how she talks about purpose, responsibility, and feeling connected. She offers hypnotherapy when appropriate and uses solution-focused techniques to set clear, achievable goals. Sessions tend to mix understanding past patterns with concrete steps for coping now.
People often come to Michele for issues tied to intimacy, body image, codependency, commitment, and communication problems. She also addresses trauma and abuse, HIV / AIDS related concerns, abandonment, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. Michele can help with both immediate coping skills and longer-term emotional work.
She practices from Illinois and speaks English. Michele accepts international clients for online work and supports a variety of life transitions. If someone wants collaborative, down-to-earth therapy that balances insight with tools, she can be a steady guide.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Michele lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Approaches Michele names
- Existential Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
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Online support
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Existential Therapy focuses on questions of meaning, choice, and connection. In online sessions Michele will help people name what matters to them, face difficult life questions, and make decisions that match their values. This approach often helps with feelings of emptiness, grief, and major life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions interact. Michele uses CBT online to teach practical skills for reducing anxiety, improving mood, and changing unhelpful behavior in everyday life. Clients can expect tasks and simple experiments between sessions.
Hypnotherapy is a tool Michele may use to support relaxation, change habits, or access focused states for therapeutic work. When appropriate she guides people through gentle, focused exercises that can complement talk therapy.
Choosing the right mix of methods is part of the work. Michele approaches this collaboratively, discussing goals and preferences and adjusting methods over time. She aims to find a pace and style that feel realistic and helpful for each person.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports shorter updates or ongoing reflections. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules and continue work from wherever is most convenient.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Michele address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship struggles, grief, trauma and abuse, and issues related to self-esteem and intimacy. Additional focuses include body image, codependency, commitment and family of origin concerns.
What is her therapy style like?
Michele combines practical skills with deeper exploration. She mixes cognitive behavioral techniques, existential conversation about meaning, and targeted goal work to help people cope and change.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 19 years of experience as a therapist working with individuals, couples, and groups in various settings.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LCSW licensed in Illinois and conducts practice from that state.
Which languages are supported and can international clients work together?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients for online therapy.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different scheduling needs and communication preferences.
How does cost and payment work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions are delivered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Michele?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling sessions according to therapist availability.
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