Michele Lewis, LISW, LCSW
Licensed in Missouri · 26 years in practice
Michele Lewis greets people with a calm, practical approach.
License and registration
- LCSW, Missouri
- 2001009328 · expires September 2026
- LISW, Iowa
- 118059 · expires December 2026
- NPI
- 1497004980 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 26
- Languages
- English
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About Michele
Michele Lewis greets people with a calm, practical approach. She welcomes parents and adults who are worried about grief, trauma, anxiety, or stress and want straightforward help. Michele is a licensed social worker - she holds an Iowa LISW and a Missouri LCSW and has worked in the field for 26 years.
Michele focuses on helping people name what feels stuck and try small, doable steps to feel better. She listens without judging and helps people practice new ways of coping with hard emotions.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear skills you can use between meetings, like ways to manage anxiety or handle caregiver stress. Her background includes long experience with grief, loss, and issues that come with aging and caregiving. Michele helps adult children facing changes in a parent, and she supports people dealing with chronic illness, disability, and the emotional impact of life transitions.
She also addresses concerns such as self-esteem, depression, codependency, and loneliness. Therapy draws on practical strategies from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness, plus acceptance-based ideas and emotion-focused listening. Michele blends these tools to fit each person’s values and goals, and she encourages clients to try new approaches in everyday life.
Clients can meet by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Michele holds a Master of Social Work with a mental health concentration and brings a long history of work in geriatrics and grief support to her practice.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Michele lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
Approaches Michele names
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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Online support
How Michele’s approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts. It helps with depression, anxiety, and major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for mood and stress management. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and building trust so clients can find their own solutions and feel more confident in their choices.Michele uses these methods together and will talk with each person to find the best fit. She treats finding the right approach as a team effort - listening to your goals, trying techniques, and adjusting based on what helps you make progress.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text allow brief check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options aim to make therapy more flexible so it can fit into work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Michele commonly address?
Michele works with grief, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. She also helps with stress, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and loneliness.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is warm, accepting, and practical. She combines listening with concrete strategies you can practice between sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 26 years of experience working in mental health, including extensive work in geriatrics and grief support.
What credentials and where is she licensed?
She holds an Iowa LISW and a Missouri LCSW and practices from Missouri.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for online work.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
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