Michelle Gross

Michelle Gross is a licensed clinical mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, ADHD, and major life changes. She uses plain, practical steps to help clients turn insight into action. Michelle draws on two decades of counseling, coaching, and education to make sessions focused and useful.

She earned a Master’s in Counseling and an MBA from Wake Forest University. That mixed background shapes how she blends emotional support with concrete problem solving. Clients can expect conversations about how their thinking and habits affect daily life, and specific strategies to manage tasks and moods.

Michelle often supports people with ADHD across adolescence, college years, and adulthood. She helps set up routines, prioritize tasks, and build methods that fit how a person’s brain works. She also addresses grief, depression, anxiety, and recovery from addictive behaviors with step-by-step tools.

Work with entrepreneurs and professionals is part of her practice. Michelle uses her experience managing budgets and projects to coach on leadership, prioritizing, delegation, and following through on goals. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented when that is useful.

Her style is warm and client-centered, with a focus on mindfulness and skills from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches. She partners with people to increase self-awareness and create real changes they can maintain over time.

How her approaches translate to online care

Client-centered therapy puts the client's goals first and focuses on listening and understanding. Online sessions can use that same listening-based approach to shape goals and priorities in ways that matter day to day.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to change mood and function. CBT techniques work well online because homework, worksheets, and behavior tracking can be reviewed together during sessions.

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and sharpening interpersonal effectiveness. Those concrete skills can be practiced between sessions and then discussed with the therapist in follow-ups.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Michelle will collaborate with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts methods over time based on progress and feedback.

The profile does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into busy weeks, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people use written or visual tools between sessions. Licensed professionals use these formats to support consistent progress while balancing everyday life.