Michelle Walsh, LCSW

Michelle Walsh is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in New Jersey with 11 years of experience. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, substance issues, and anger, among other struggles. Michelle offers both group and individual therapy and draws on practical approaches to help clients manage day-to-day problems.

Michelle trained in social work and began her career after graduate study focused on substance use. She has worked in private practice, outpatient mental health clinics, and in a homeless shelter. That mix of settings shaped a straightforward style that favors clear tools and steady collaboration.

Her clinical approach centers on Client-Centered Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy. In sessions she listens first, then helps people name what’s most urgent and try small, concrete steps that can change how they respond in stressful moments. Mindfulness practices are offered as a way to calm racing thoughts and notice triggers without reacting automatically.

Michelle has supported people struggling with trauma, PTSD, sexual assault and abuse, postpartum concerns, chronic pain and illness, and issues common to veterans and armed forces family members. She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, sleep disruption, and career stress.

Her background includes work with mood disorders, panic attacks, addictions, and compassion fatigue. Michelle emphasizes practical skills clients can use between sessions, such as grounding exercises, breathing techniques, and brief behavioral experiments to test new responses to anger or overwhelm.

To begin, she asks people to identify a few priority problems so sessions can focus on immediate relief and realistic next steps. Michelle combines listening with clear, usable strategies that fit everyday life.

How Michelle uses client-centered and mindfulness methods online