Charles Michel, LCSW

Charles Michel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 31 years of experience. He focuses on building a warm, collaborative relationship and helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by mood, behavior, or life changes.

He commonly helps people coping with anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, and ADHD. He also supports concerns like relationship stress, jealousy, grief, addiction, and challenges around parenting and career. Sessions emphasize practical steps people can try between meetings.

Charles uses straightforward, person-centered work. He listens first, then offers evidence-informed tools drawn from cognitive behavioral methods and skills-based approaches. He tailors what he suggests to each person’s daily life and goals rather than following a rigid plan.

People often come for help managing intense emotions, repairing intimacy-related problems, or adjusting after loss or separation. He also has experience with adoption and foster care issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, multicultural concerns, and caregiving stress. His background includes long-term work with mood disorders and trauma.

Charles keeps sessions collaborative and practical. He encourages small experiments and skill building so people can notice change between sessions. He works in English and practices in Indiana as an LCSW.

Approaches that guide online work

Charles often draws on client-centered therapy to keep sessions focused on each person's needs. This approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and collaboration so the person feels heard and understood. It helps people who are unsure where to start or who need a steady, supportive relationship.

He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and try small, practical experiments. CBT-style work is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and everyday problems where behavior change matters. Dialectical behavior therapy provides skills for managing strong emotions and improving coping in stressful moments.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That means trying options, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than imposing one way of working.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals can adapt these approaches to practical, everyday situations so therapy can be useful between sessions.