Michelle Lake, LMHC

Michelle Lake is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor (FL LMHC) with 17 years of clinical experience. She works with adults on issues such as stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, parenting concerns, and anger. Sessions address both everyday frustrations and longer-standing patterns that get in the way of daily life.

She uses practical conversation and evidence-informed methods to help people make changes. Michelle draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused work to notice patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior. She helps clients identify values, practice new responses, and repair important relationships.

In session she keeps language straightforward. Clients can expect discussion of what currently causes distress, simple skills to try between sessions, and focused goal-setting. Michelle also works with issues that often sit underneath anger - like abandonment, shame, impulsivity, and caregiver stress - so the work can address causes as well as immediate reactions.

Michelle has experience with LGBT clients and with a wide range of life transitions, including adoption and foster care concerns, chronic illness, and career shifts. Her training includes a master’s degree in counselor education and she is a Qualified Supervisor for mental health counselors. She practices from Florida and conducts work in English.

To begin she asks people to describe the problem, what they hope will change, and what has or hasn’t helped so far. That practical start helps shape a plan of short-term steps and longer-term goals.

How her approaches translate to remote work