Michelle St. Raymond

Michelle St. Raymond is a licensed clinical social worker with 31 years of experience practicing in Louisiana. She draws on a long career helping people navigate major life changes, stress, and trauma. Michelle offers calm, steady support while people work toward clearer goals and healthier daily routines.

She focuses on trauma recovery, relationship growth, and family of origin patterns. Michelle uses practical tools to address anxiety, anger, grief, addiction concerns, and struggles with self-esteem. Her work emphasizes helping people move from stuck places toward real, manageable change.

Michelle blends several therapeutic approaches to meet each person’s needs. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and shift unhelpful thinking. Attachment-based ideas inform how she looks at relationship patterns and early life influences.

Sessions include attention to body awareness and mindfulness. Michelle encourages small, concrete steps that support long-term change, such as new coping skills and ways to communicate. She talks about the how-to alongside the feelings, so people gain skills they can use right away.

Her approach is collaborative. Michelle describes herself as a guide while the client leads the work. She tends to focus on present goals, practical strategies, and compassionate self-acceptance as people move through transitions.

People contact Michelle for help with parenting strain, relationship conflict, work stress, sleep and eating problems, ADHD challenges, and compassion fatigue. She works to create a clear plan that fits each person’s life and values.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It emphasizes values and committed steps toward a life that matters to the person, which can help with anxiety, depression, and major life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence. It teaches practical skills for changing patterns that feed anxiety, insomnia, eating concerns, or anger.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaboration allows adjustments over time so the approach stays useful as life changes.

Confirm the current online session options before booking, as formats are set by the therapist. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedule or energy is limited. It also supports using in-the-moment homework between sessions, such as tracking sleep, practicing brief mindfulness, or trying a new coping skill, so progress continues between appointments.