Michelle Lake, LMHC

Michelle Lake is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 17 years of clinical experience. She holds a Master’s Degree in Counselor Education with a specialization in Mental Health Counseling and serves as a Qualified Supervisor for Mental Health Counselors. Over her career she has worked with adults, teenagers, and members of the LGBT community, offering individual therapy, couples counseling, family therapy, and group work while drawing on a range of therapeutic modalities to support meaningful change.

Her practice addresses concerns such as stress and anxiety, depression, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, intimacy-related problems, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and coping with life changes. Michelle emphasizes helping clients tap into their inner resources by building a caring, genuine therapeutic relationship and using a holistic, strengths-based approach tailored to each person’s needs. She adapts techniques to foster healing, practical coping skills, and improved emotional wellbeing.

Michelle aims to create a supportive environment where people can explore patterns, process difficult experiences, and develop strategies for daily life. With a focus on empowerment and collaboration, she helps clients move toward greater balance, purpose, and resilience.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Michelle often integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) into her work to help people clarify values and build psychological flexibility. ACT emphasizes taking practical steps toward a meaningful life even when difficult thoughts or emotions are present, and it can be helpful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions.

Attachment-Based Therapy is used to explore how early relationship patterns affect current interactions. By identifying attachment needs and interpersonal dynamics, this approach supports work on relationship difficulties, intimacy concerns, and parenting challenges.

Finding the right approach is part of the collaborative process. Michelle works with each person to assess concerns, preferences, and goals, and she tailors or blends methods over time so therapy fits the client rather than forcing a single model.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect with a licensed professional - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging can be used alone or together to accommodate schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care during busy periods or when in-person sessions are impractical, while allowing therapists to adapt skill-building and emotional work to virtual formats.