Michelle Simon

Michelle Simon is a licensed Minnesota psychologist with 33 years of professional experience. She combines years of clinical work with a practical, down-to-earth style. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in sessions and aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable for people under stress.

Her work often focuses on relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges including divorce and new parenting roles, and issues like self-esteem, anxiety, depression, grief, and anger. Isolation and loneliness are included among the concerns she addresses. She commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.

Michelle also draws on client-centered principles, shaping sessions around each person's goals and preferences. She says the dialog and treatment plan are tailored to what an individual needs in the moment. That can mean practical skill-building, problem-solving, or simply space to process difficult events.

Her background includes familiarity with the family court system and an openness to discuss alternative health or medicinal approaches when relevant to care. Michelle added a Christian-informed option two years ago to respond to community needs; she discusses faith when clients indicate it's important to them.

People who choose her can expect straightforward conversation, focus on concrete steps, and attention to emotional safety. Getting started is framed as a collaborative process, and she encourages taking the first step toward clearer decisions and steadier coping.

How Michelle's approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person's pace. In sessions the therapist reflects what the client says, asks questions that help people clarify values and goals, and adapts the conversation to what feels most useful. This approach helps when someone needs acceptance and guidance to sort through confusing feelings.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses straightforward tools such as thought records, behavior experiments, and small-step goal setting. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, depression, stress, and repetitive negative thinking that contributes to isolation or low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit the person's goals and daily life. That might mean mixing client-centered listening with practical CBT techniques and adjusting as progress is made.

Because the exact session formats are not specified here, confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow regular check-ins after difficult events. It also lets people choose a quieter time or a shorter session when life is hectic, so therapy can be integrated into everyday routines.