Michelle Burdick, LPC

Michelle Burdick is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan. She focuses on helping people navigate major life transitions and tackle everyday stressors. Michelle aims to make tough choices feel more manageable and to help clients rebuild confidence when life shifts or work becomes unsatisfying.

Michelle combines counseling with a background in human resources to support career-related concerns. She helps people clarify what matters to them, improve interview and job search skills, and approach career changes with less fear. Her HR experience includes recruiting at multiple organizational levels and advising on resumes, LinkedIn, and networking.

In sessions she uses practical tools to address anxiety, low self-esteem, grief, and anger. She draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused strategies to identify unhelpful patterns and build small, workable changes. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are part of her toolkit for strengthening motivation and managing stress.

Michelle also supports people facing health-related life changes, including fertility challenges and cancer, helping them find direction and cope with unpredictable circumstances. She works with clients on questions of life purpose and social anxiety as well.

Michelle has three years of counseling experience and brings prior human resources work to the room. She offers straightforward guidance, skill-building, and collaborative problem solving to help people move toward clearer goals and more satisfying daily life.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavior changes. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and social fears to build clearer coping steps.

Solution-focused work emphasizes setting small, practical goals and finding what already helps. This approach can be useful when someone wants faster progress on a specific problem like job search skills or managing daily stress.

Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus. It often pairs well with other approaches to help manage anxiety and build steadier responses to challenging situations.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust methods as goals evolve.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and remove travel time for appointments. Licensed professionals can guide clients to approaches that fit everyday routines and challenges without promising particular outcomes.