Michele Bowen, LMSW, LCSW

Michele Bowen is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Michigan with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction issues, trauma and abuse, grief, and low self-esteem. Michele emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental approach and supports clients taking the first steps toward change.

She draws on a mix of approaches to match each person's needs, including attachment work, cognitive behavioral tools, dialectical behavior strategies, EMDR, and mindfulness practices. Michele has long experience in behavioral health settings and uses practical skills to help clients cope with difficult emotions and painful memories.

Her practice addresses related concerns such as abandonment and attachment issues, caregiver stress, chronic pain and illness, codependency, and communication problems. She also works with dissociation, guilt and shame, loneliness, mood disorders, panic, personality disorders, post-traumatic stress, and seasonal affective disorder.

Michele favors a whole-person perspective that considers mind, body, and spirit. She may integrate somatic exercises, meditation, and light yoga when clients are comfortable with those techniques. The work typically focuses on building on personal strengths and teaching tools people can use between sessions.

Clients can expect a collaborative style where goals are set together and practical strategies are emphasized. Michele offers support aimed at helping people move toward a more fulfilling life while honoring their individual pace and resilience.

How Michele's approaches work in online therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy helps people notice patterns in close relationships and how early hurts shape current trust and connection. Online work can use conversation and reflective exercises to identify attachment needs and practice new ways of relating.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In online sessions this often means setting small, practical goals, tracking progress between sessions, and reviewing real-life examples together.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clear communication. A therapist can teach these skills in a step-by-step way and coach clients on using them in everyday situations.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped in the past, then recommend methods to try. Clients and the therapist check in regularly and adjust the plan based on what is working.

Because the profile does not list specific session formats, confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by reducing travel time, offering shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and allowing use of worksheets and mindfulness practices between meetings. Licensed professionals can guide how to adapt techniques like EMDR and somatic exercises to an online setting while tailoring the pace to each person's needs.