Michele Lewis, LISW, LCSW

Michele Lewis is a seasoned clinical social worker with 26 years of experience helping people navigate trauma, grief, relationships, and life transitions. She holds LISW and LCSW credentials, which indicate that she is a licensed clinical social worker authorized to provide clinical services in Iowa and Missouri. In addition to those licenses, she is a certified clinical tele-mental health provider and holds certifications as a clinical trauma professional and a grief professional.

Michele combines warmth, acceptance, and practical skills to create a therapy space where people can explore painful memories, express difficult feelings, and try new ways of coping. Her work supports young people recovering from past trauma, adult children managing caregiver stress, and older adults processing the emotional aspects of aging. She helps clients address depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, stress, relationship and communication challenges, career and coaching concerns, LGBT issues, and compassion fatigue, among other concerns.

Her approach draws on multiple techniques, including cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness-based stress management, positive psychology, empowerment work, and mind-body-spirit strategies to increase emotional expression and improve mood and functioning. Michele earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Kansas and a Bachelor of Psychology from William Jewell College. She offers sessions in the evenings and on weekends and is experienced in delivering tele-mental health services. Michele brings steady support and practical tools to help people find greater balance and more authentic connection in their lives.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Michele integrates Client-Centered Therapy, which emphasizes a warm, nonjudgmental relationship where the client leads the pace and focus of sessions - this approach helps people build self-understanding and confidence. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a practical method that explores the connections among thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress and to develop coping strategies. Mindfulness Therapy is another component of her work, teaching simple present-moment awareness and stress-management techniques to help clients respond to difficult emotions with greater calm and clarity.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Michele works together with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, and she adapts methods over time so therapy matches changing needs.

Online therapy with Michele is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for busy schedules and for people who prefer remote care. These options make it easier to fit sessions into evenings or weekends and to continue work on skills and coping strategies from wherever the client is located within the therapist's service area.