Michelle Gross, LCMHC

Michelle Gross, LCMHC, helps people facing stress, anxiety, ADHD, grief, depression, and life transitions. She brings 20 years of counseling, coaching, and education experience to each session. She works with adolescents, college students, and adults to build practical routines and coping skills. Michelle blends straightforward guidance with a calm, personable approach.

She uses a mix of client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. That means sessions often focus on small, concrete changes - like shifting unhelpful thinking, building new habits, or practicing emotional regulation. Michelle also incorporates mindfulness and motivational interviewing to support longer-term change.

Michelle draws on experience in schools, universities, corporations, and private practice. That background shapes how she helps people with career and performance concerns, time management, and task completion. She also supports those dealing with addictions, relationship strains, parenting challenges, and compassion fatigue.

Her training includes a Master’s in Counseling and an MBA from Wake Forest University, and she holds an LCMHC in North Carolina. Michelle emphasizes self-awareness and practical strategies that turn insight into action. She aims to help clients understand how their brains function and use that understanding to make daily life easier.

People working with Michelle can expect collaborative goal setting and a focus on skills that fit their routine. She encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes and helps clients translate new awareness into real-world changes.

How Michelle’s Approaches Translate Online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people name what matters most to them. It supports exploring goals, values, and day-to-day challenges while shaping the pace of work to the person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses simple exercises to change patterns that increase stress or anxiety. CBT is useful for mood, anxiety, and behavior change. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, provides concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and reducing impulsive reactions; it is practical for anger, emotional overwhelm, and self-regulation.

Finding the right fit is a collaborative process. Michelle will work together with each person to choose which methods to try based on goals, life demands, and preferences. She often blends approaches so sessions include both reflective conversation and hands-on skill practice to support steady progress.

Confirm available online session formats before booking because the biography does not list them. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when that helps. Some people prefer video for face-to-face conversation, while others choose audio when movement or lower bandwidth is needed; discuss options when you schedule to match sessions to daily life.