Michelle Boyles, LCSW

Michelle Boyles is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and relationship strain. She speaks plainly and helps clients find practical coping steps they can use day to day.

She has worked in mental health and substance abuse for more than 25 years. Michelle earned a Master of Social Work from Georgia State University after completing a bachelor’s degree in psychology at Penn State. She has held a Florida LCSW since 2012 and has been a master’s-level therapist since 2001.

Her background includes inpatient crisis stabilization, residential care, and outpatient therapy. Michelle has experience supporting people with trauma and abuse, mood disorders, personality concerns, substance misuse, and family conflict. That range gave her a lot of practice translating clinical ideas into simple tools.

In sessions she focuses on helping people gain insight, learn skills, and build coping strategies. She uses a mix of approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, to help clients change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and manage emotions more effectively.

Michelle also draws on client-centered methods, dialectical behavior skills, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to tailor work to each person. Her aim is straightforward: help clients notice what isn’t working, try small changes, and measure what improves over time.

Practical therapy approaches you can use online

Michelle commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT breaks down problems into thought-feeling-action patterns and gives short exercises clients can practice between sessions.

She also uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening, understanding the person’s experience, and helping them set their own goals. For emotional regulation and distress tolerance, she draws from Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach concrete strategies for managing intense feelings.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and everyday routine. Together they will try techniques, review what helps, and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skill coaching, phone calls can fit into a work break or when video is not practical, and messaging or chat allow short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity and practice skills in daily life.