Michelle Curry, LCSW

Licensed in Illinois · 21 years in practice

Michelle Curry is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of practice in Illinois.

License and registration

LCSW, Illinois: 149.015555 · expires November 2027
NPI: 1609965243 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 21
Languages: English

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About Michelle

Michelle Curry is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of practice in Illinois. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship and intimacy concerns. Michelle aims to create a warm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what matters to them and start making changes.

She listens first and uses practical tools to help people meet goals. Sessions center on empathy, clear feedback, and step-by-step strategies for daily life.

Background and approach

Michelle helps people build coping skills for grief, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and challenges like ADHD or body image struggles. Her background includes work supporting people affected by adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, and caregiving stress. She also brings experience with complex presentations such as co-morbidity, personality concerns, and trauma-related symptoms.

That breadth informs how she tailors each plan. Michelle prefers an individualized approach. She will talk through current difficulties, identify priorities, and suggest concise tools to try between sessions.

Over time clients gain clearer self-understanding and better ways to manage emotions and relationships. People meet Michelle for help with career stress, eating concerns, bipolar mood management, or major life transitions. Her style is practical and steady, aimed at creating small, durable changes rather than quick fixes.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Michelle lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Trauma and abuse
Self esteem
Depression
LGBT
Family conflicts
Grief
Intimacy-related issues
Eating disorders
Parenting issues
Anger management
Career difficulties
Bipolar disorder
Coping with life changes
Compassion fatigue
ADHD
Abandonment
Adoption and foster care
Aging and geriatric issues
Antisocial personality
Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Avoidant personality
Blended family issues
Body image
Caregiver issues and stress
Co-morbidity
Codependency
Communication problems
Control issues
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Dependent personality
Divorce and separation
Domestic violence
Emptiness
Family problems
Fatherhood issues
Forgiveness
Hospice and end-of-life counseling
Impulsivity
Intellectual disability
Isolation / loneliness
Jealousy
Mood disorders
Narcissism
Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Personality disorders
Phobias
Post-traumatic stress
Pregnancy and childbirth
Prejudice and discrimination
Self-harm
Self-love
Sexual assault and abuse
Sexuality
Social anxiety and phobia
Somatization
Workplace issues
Young adult issues

Online support

How Michelle brings evidence-based work to online therapy

Many evidence-based approaches focus on skills people can use in daily life. One approach emphasizes building concrete coping skills for anxiety and stress - learning breathing strategies, grounding techniques, and stepwise plans to face difficult situations. Another commonly used focus is processing trauma and painful experiences in a paced way so memories feel less overwhelming and daily functioning improves.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Michelle collaborates with each person to identify goals, tries strategies, and adjusts what she uses based on progress and preference. That collaborative process helps match techniques to a person’s needs rather than applying a one-size-fits-all plan.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for a full conversation and visual cues, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can work for brief check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep work moving between sessions.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Michelle address?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, grief, eating and parenting concerns among others listed in her profile.

How would you describe Michelle's therapeutic style?

Her approach emphasizes listening first, empathy, and practical tools. Sessions focus on concrete steps people can try between meetings.

What is Michelle's professional background?

Michelle has 21 years of experience providing mental health support and has worked with people facing a wide range of challenges.

Where is Michelle licensed and based?

She is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Illinois.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

Sessions can be held via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.

How are fees and billing handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with Michelle?

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