Michelle Slater, LMHC

Michelle Slater is a Florida-based Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of clinical and teaching experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, parenting concerns, ADHD, and major life transitions. She approaches therapy with respect, active listening, and a collaborative spirit, working to enhance resilience, self-awareness, and practical coping skills. Her work honors the whole person by attending to mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of wellbeing while focusing on clear goals and meaningful progress.

Her interventions draw from existential, solution-focused, and cognitive-behavioral strategies, and she integrates client-centered practices to prioritize each individual’s values and perspective. She also uses approaches suited for couples, including the Gottman Method, to address communication patterns, attachment concerns, and conflict resolution. This blend of methods supports clients facing mood disorders, guilt and shame, isolation, life-purpose questions, caregiver stress, and transitions such as divorce or separation.

Michelle earned masters, specialist, and doctoral degrees in Counselor Education from the University of Florida and holds a certification in telemental health counseling (BC-TMH). She is experienced working with individuals, couples, families, and groups across diverse ages and backgrounds. Whether the focus is on improving communication, managing emotional distress, or moving through a major life change, she partners with people to remove barriers and foster greater insight, balance, and wellbeing.