Now accepting Florida residents for virtual counseling

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Now accepting Florida residents for virtual counseling 〰️

Therapeutic Approach

Michele Holding is a counselor with over 15 years of experience supporting individuals, couples, and families find healing opportunities to transform their lives. Working from a relational approach, she creates a safe space for individuals and couples to explore the unwanted patterns in their life, relieve the burdens that keep those stuck, and find new paths towards relief and resiliency. Michele is also able to offer a space for clients to incorporate their Christian faith into the therapeutic process if desired.

Specializations

  • With anxiety being part of the Michele’s journey towards healing, she has developed a passion for working with individuals who struggle with anxiety. Incorporating a combination of internal family systems therapy, interpersonal neurobiology, and EMDR she has helped many people experience less disturbance and a better relationship with their anxiety.

  • Whether your story includes small "t" or big "T" traumas, Michele would like to help you find relief from the symptoms that can get stuck in your body following those experiences. She primarily uses EMDR to help clients reprocess events that were disturbing.

  • Michele works with individuals and couples who are working through any form of attachment disruptions including with a spouse, family, friends, or church.  Emotion focused therapy, interpersonal neurobiology, and attachment research all help to inform changing the patterns of relating that are causing distress.

    “When we first reached out to Michele, we were at a point in our marriage where we felt hopeless and reconciliation seemed impossible. We felt comfortable and safe with Michele right away and during our time with her, we were able to identify the deep-rooted behavioral patterns that had been creating conflict and mistrust between us for so many years. Through Michele’s guidance and counselling, together with God’s transformative power, we have learned how to support, trust and communicate better with each other, and our marriage has been strengthened and healed in a way which we did not ever think was possible.“ - Actual Couple Client

Issues Treated

Anxiety, Attachment Trauma, Codependency, Depression, Emotional Disturbance, Family Conflict, Family of Origin Issues, Marital Issues, OCD, Panic Attacks, Parenting, Peer Relationships, Phobias, Relationship Issues, School Issues, Sex and Sexuality, Self Esteem, Self-Harming, Spiritual Issues, Stress, Trauma

Qualifications

License and Registration

Michele is a Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern (IMH 25786) with the State of Florida Department of Health.

Michele is also a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Approved Clinical Supervisor (RCC-ACS #10530) with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counselling. 

Education and Training

Michele received a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. She then received a Master’s of Science in Counselling and Psychology from Troy University in Orlando, Florida. Michele has since pursued and continues to pursue trainings in Internal Family Systems, EMDR, Emotion Focused Therapy, Sex Therapy, and Clinical Supervision.

Take your next healing step

I would love to hear from you and help you decide if working with me is the right fit for you.