- Action oriented
- Compassionate support
- Values focused
About Michelle
Michelle Voegtle is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina with 25 years of experience in recovery, grief work, and life transitions. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck, offering steady support and practical steps to move forward. Michelle uses clear, compassionate guidance and encourages action toward a life that feels more authentic and meaningful.
Her style blends coaching and counseling. Sessions emphasize the present and next steps rather than staying focused on past pain. Michelle helps people notice patterns, name barriers, and try small experiments to change what isn’t working. She describes the work as pragmatic and hope-fueled, with kindness at the core.
Michelle draws on several well-known approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, client-centered care, and mindfulness. These methods are used to support change, build coping skills, and clarify values. She also integrates experience from recovery and bereavement work when relevant to a person’s needs.
People seeking help for stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, relationship and family concerns, or life purpose often find her approach useful. Additional focus areas include caregiver stress, codependency, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and women's midlife issues. Michelle aims to create a space where people feel heard and can take steady steps toward the life they want.
If someone is ready to start, she asks them to complete a brief matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions that fit their routine.
How therapy approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small, committed steps toward those values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and life changes where finding direction matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns of behavior. It often helps with anxiety, mood struggles, and impulsive behaviors by teaching practical skills and short experiments. Motivational Interviewing is a conversational method that helps people resolve mixed feelings about change and build motivation for steps like reducing substance use or starting new routines.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients and therapist work together to pick strategies that match the client’s needs and what feels doable.
Because the original profile does not list specific session formats, confirm current online options before booking. Many people find online therapy helpful for fitting sessions into busy days, making check-ins possible during breaks, and reducing travel time. Some approaches translate well to brief skill-building sessions, while others benefit from longer conversations; the therapist can recommend what tends to work best for a given goal.
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Experience
25+ years
Credentials
Connecticut, South Carolina
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Michelle commonly address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, grief, addictions, relationship and family concerns, trauma, anger, caregiver strain, life transitions, and codependency among other issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is pragmatic and compassionate, combining coaching with counseling and emphasizing present-focused steps to move forward rather than staying tied to past pain.
What is Michelle's professional background?
Michelle has 25 years of experience working in recovery, bereavement, and life transitions and blends that experience into her counseling and coaching work.
What credentials and location information are on file?
She holds the LPC credential and practices in South Carolina, with additional licensing noted in Connecticut in her background information.
In which language are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are provided?
The original biography does not specify session formats here, so confirm current session options with the provider before booking.
How are fees and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Michelle?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
Profile details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. Credential and registration rules differ between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.